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Perspectives on the rebel social contract: Exit, voice, and loyalty in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

, 2020
This article considers the concept of the rebel social contract by examining the case of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The concept of the social contract is a cornerstone of political theory and is increasingly invoked in discussions of civil
M. Revkin, Ariel I. Ahram
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The Social Contract

We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. Or is this mere fiction? How is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement?
W. Edmundson
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Dentistry's social contract is at risk.

The Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2020
BACKGROUND The implications of the social contract for medicine and those it serves has been debated by bioethicists, political scientists, and physicians. Far less attention, however, has been given to dentistry's social contract. METHODS The existing
Jamie Moeller, C. Quiñonez
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The rise and decline of the populist social contract in the Arab world

, 2020
The wave of populist authoritarian republics (PA) established in the Arab world in the 1950s–1960s legitimized themselves by a combination of nationalism, developmentalism and populism.
Raymond Hinnebusch
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Social Contract

2017
The ninth chapter argues that the law punishes bad minds, not bad people; as a result, social cognition is paramount in legal decision-making. It then reviews the psychological literature on punishment, discussing motives. It then uses the racial history of America as a case study, highlighting how historic dehumanization during and after slavery ...
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Hobbes’s Social Contract

1990
This chapter defends an account of Hobbes’s social contract against the revisionist interpretation defended by Jean Hampton in her Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition. Hampton argues that the social contract is no contract, but a “self-interested agreement” or convention.
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South Sudan: The Elusive Quest for a Resilient Social Contract?

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019
After its hard-won independence in 2011, South Sudan slid quickly into violent conflict and became a theatre of enormous human suffering. This article attempts to answer the question of what went wrong, and what prospects exist for South Sudanese to ...
L. Kuol
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The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses

, 2017
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today.
J. Rousseau, Susan Dunn, G. May, R. Bellah, D. Bromwich, Conor O’Brien   +5 more
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The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State Capitalist Economies

Authoritarian Powers, 2017
The social contract thesis explained stability in communist autocracies as a consequence of an implicit exchange between the regime and the populace: citizens remained quiescent and the regime provided them with secure jobs, social services, subsidised ...
L. Cook, M. Dimitrov
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Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education

, 2021

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