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Between Covenant and Contract: Jewish Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory
Religions, 2023 Social contract theory has long been at the center of political theory, and one of the inheritors of the social contract tradition, liberalism, reverberates through contemporary political life.
Sarah B. Greenberg
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Moral Community and Moral Order
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2020 This work aligns James Buchanan’s theory of social contract with the structure of Michael Moehler’s multilevel social contract. Most importantly, this work develops Buchanan’s notions of moral community and moral order.
James Caton
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CoRR, 2020 Like any technology, AI systems come with inherent risks and potential benefits. It comes with potential disruption of established norms and methods of work, societal impacts and externalities. One may think of the adoption of technology as a form of social contract, which may evolve or fluctuate in time, scale, and impact.
Mirka Snyder Caron, Abhishek Gupta
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Demography and the social contract [PDF]
Demography, 2002 Abstract As the most demographically complex nation in the world, the United States faces ever more formidable challenges to fulfill its commitment to the democratic values of equity and inclusion as the foreign-born share of the population increases.
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Conflict and the Social Contract* [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006 AbstractWe consider social contracts for resolving conflicts between two agents who are uncertain about each other's fighting potential. Applications include international conflict, litigation and elections. Even though only a peaceful agreement avoids a loss of resources, if this loss is small enough, then any contract must assign a positive ...
Bester, Helmut, Wärneryd, Karl
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Remarks on Andreas Abegg's paper “From the Social Contract to a Social Contract Law” [PDF]
Ancilla Iuris, 2008 The fact that a big, tacit social contract crumbles into a multitude of tiny explicit contracts, which govern a load of social duties, relationships and behaviours, is a striking and enigmatic phenomenon.
Maurizio Borghi
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The social contract as a trend of transforming the low-income state social support: trends and risks
Семиотические исследования, 2023 The article is devoted to the issue of introducing social contracts into the practice of state social support for low-income citizens. The author considers the social contract as a trend of the state social support institutional transformation and a tool
Svetlana V. Egorova
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Neutrality and the Social Contract [PDF]
Les ateliers de l'éthique, 2018 Given the fact of moral disagreement, theories of state neutrality which rely on moral premises will have limited application, in that they will fail to motivate anyone who rejects the moral premises on which they are based. By contrast, contractarian theories can be consistent with moral scepticism, and can therefore avoid this limitation.
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Violent societies: Educating the upcoming generations about their social contract
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2014 The citizens of many countries in the world, particularly of South Africa, are experiencing the collapse of the social order in their country as a result of certain circumstances.
Johannes L. van der Walt +1 more
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Contracts with Social Multipliers [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 We develop a model of contracting in which individual effort choices are subject to social pressure to conform to the average effort level of others in the same risk‐sharing group. As in related models of social interactions, a change in exogenous variables or contract terms generates a social multiplier.
Mary A. Burke, Kislaya Prasad
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