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Platform capitalism’s social contract
Internet Policy Review, 2022 What kind of social contract underwrites platform capitalism? Based on findings from the Platform Labor research project, I discuss a number of ways in which platform companies are expanding their services and influence by identifying particular societal
Niels Van Doorn
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Vaccination as a social contract: The case of COVID-19 and US political partisanship. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Comments on an article by L Korn et al (see record 2020-50506-003) Korn et al present evidence that vaccination constitutes a "social contract " In three controlled experiments, participants who chose to be vaccinated in an experimental vaccination game (
Weisel O.
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Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science. [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2021 Political philosophers have long drawn explicitly or implicitly on claims about the ways in which human behaviour is shaped by interactions within society.
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Vaccination as a social contract. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Vaccines support controlling and eliminating infectious diseases. As most vaccines protect both vaccinated individuals and the society, vaccination is a prosocial act. Its success relies on a large number of contributing individuals.
Korn L, Böhm R, Meier NW, Betsch C.
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Sustainability, 2022 The corona (COVID-19) pandemic is not a 'game changer' as such, but it is a crisis that offers opportunities for dealing with three interrelated crises: the ecological crisis (climate change, loss of biodiversity), the rise of populistic leaders, and the
Huntjens P, Kemp R.
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Implementing energy justice through a new social contract
Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2023 The relationship between the energy sector and society is one that remains mired in controversy. There are multiple problems such as climate change, environmental impacts, economic and governance issues.
R. Heffron, Louis De Fontenelle
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Trials, 2022 Background Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is an established therapy that has been widely used for many decades to improve circulation in the legs.
Binoy Kumaran +2 more
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THE APOLITICAL SOCIAL CONTRACT: CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC POLITICS BEYOND DEPOLITICIZED SOCIAL CONTRACT [PDF]
Kriterion, 2017 This article provides a criticism of the apolitical starting point of social contract theories through the analysis of Rawls's original position and Habermas's idea of complex society, arguing that such depoliticized starting point leads to the refusal ...
Leno Danner
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Mizan Law Review, 2021 Constitutions represent social contracts that accommodate subjective interests of groups within the framework of impersonal shared interests among citizens of the society at large.
Henok Kebede Bekele
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An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea
Critique of Anthropology, 2022 The idea of the social contract resonates in many societies as a framework to conceptualise state–society relations, and as a normative ideal which strives to improve them.
Gwen Burnyeat, Miranda Sheild Johansson
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