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Conflict and the Social Contract [PDF]

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006
We 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.
Bester, Helmut, Wärneryd, Karl
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Vaccination as a social contract. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Most vaccines protect both the vaccinated individual and the society by reducing the transmission of infectious diseases. In order to eliminate infectious diseases, individuals need to consider social welfare beyond mere self-interest—regardless of ethnic, religious, or national group borders.
Korn L, Böhm R, Meier NW, Betsch C.
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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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The effect of an 8-week treatment program using a novel foot neuromuscular electrical stimulator on physical function, leg pain, leg symptoms, and leg blood flow in community-dwelling older adults: a randomized sham-controlled trial

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, Darren Targett, Tim Watson   +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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Constitution as Social Contract in Contemporary Ethiopia: The Need to Re-construct Political Arrangements

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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The Historical Sociology of Social Contract in the Arab World [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2021
The recent uprisings in the Arab world that alike the previous ones were started from North Africa (Sudan and Algeria) have limitedly spilled over into Iraqi and Lebanese states; it made one more time necessary for scholars to consider the relations ...
Mehdi Zibaei
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Incomplete Social Contracts [PDF]

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003
There is a long normative ‘Social Contract’ tradition that attempts to characterize ex-post income inequalities that are agreeable to all ‘behind a veil of ignorance.’ This paper takes a similar normative approach to characterize social decision-making procedures.
Aghion, Philippe, Bolton, Patrick
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Corporate Social Responsibilities, Psychological Contracts and Employee Turnover Intention of SMEs in China

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
As an important organizational strategy and action that affects employee perception and attitude, corporate social responsibility is essential for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reduce turnover rate and achieve sustainable growth.
Zhang Hui
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Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract [PDF]

Cyberspace Studies, 2019
The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention.
Hassan Hosseini
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