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Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education
Comparative Education, 2022fields of CIE and policy sociology. How do we move beyond the necessary documentation, description and critique of the constantly emerging developments in and around education policy and governance to also, at the same time, offer new ways of thinking ...
S. Carney
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The Pleistocene Social Contract
The Pleistocene Social Contract, 2021This chapter has three aims (i) it introduces the reader to the evolutionary puzzle of cooperation: why it is relatively rare despite its potential profits; (ii) it offers an account of the transition from the dominance-structured social world of the ...
K. Sterelny
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IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications
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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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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Peace-Making Amidst an Unfinished Social Contract: The Case of Colombia
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2020After more than fifty years of conflict, in 2016 a peace agreement was signed by the Colombian government and the leftist group FARC. The agreement created important opportunities for addressing historical inequalities.
A. Rettberg
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, 2020
The COVID‐19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of those who are inadequately covered by social protection in more and less developed countries alike, and has exacerbated the fragility of a social contract that was already under strain in many ...
S. Razavi +4 more
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The COVID‐19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of those who are inadequately covered by social protection in more and less developed countries alike, and has exacerbated the fragility of a social contract that was already under strain in many ...
S. Razavi +4 more
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Old Social Contract, New Social Contract
2023The concluding chapter explains the relative failure to bring a new social contract to Egypt, through a comparison between the historical conditions that facilitated the making of the effendi social contract, and those that forestalled the contract’s replacement.
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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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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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South Sudan: The Elusive Quest for a Resilient Social Contract?
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019After 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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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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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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The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State Capitalist Economies
Authoritarian Powers, 2017The 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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