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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Of Dark Arts and Dictators-Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts by William Partlett. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
McCallum A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle, Philip G. Joyce, Marilyn M. Rubin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trading-off health safety, civil liberties, and unemployment based on communication strategies: the social dilemma in fighting pandemics. [PDF]

PLoS One
Veseli B, Seifert R, Clement M, Shehu E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking Reproductive Governance: What Can Public Administration on the Island of Ireland Learn From Abortion Accompaniment?

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The recent decriminalization of abortion marked a crucial step toward improved reproductive care on the island of Ireland. However, this has not translated into fully accessible abortion provision—barriers, including inaccessible services, persist, leaving gaps that public administration has not formally addressed. In response, informal actors,
Anna Theresa Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Cook PJ, Jeuland M, Ludwig J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sovereignty Without Surveillance: Regulatory Voids and the Limits of Marine Governance in Bougainville

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the regulatory voids that undermine sovereign marine governance in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, with a focus on the Pirung Wildlife Management Area (WMA). Based on fieldwork conducted in January 2025, including data collected from 50 community members and 25 government officials, the study reveals that ...
Kai Hang, Alessandro Rocco Prestia, Jeffery Noro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Signatures of Extreme Events in Cumulative Entropic Spectrum. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Drzazga-Szczȩśniak EA, Kaczmarek AZ, Kielak M, Gupta S, Gnyp JT, Pluta K, Ba K Z, Szczepanik P, Szczȩśniak D.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
wiley   +1 more source

Recent insights on direct democracy: Arguments, drivers, effects and conditions. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Şimşek C, Limão J, Campos I, Fuchs D, Schlipphak B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source