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Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract

open access: yesSocial Policy and Society, 2021
More nation states are now committing to zero net carbon by 2050 at the latest, which is encouraging, but none have faced up to the transformation of economies, societies and lives that this will entail.
I. Gough
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Moral Community and Moral Order

open access: yesErasmus 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
doaj   +1 more source

Between Covenant and Contract: Jewish Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory

open access: yesReligions, 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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The social contract as a trend of transforming the low-income state social support: trends and risks

open access: yesСемиотические 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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The social contract as a tool of analysis: Introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”

open access: yes, 2020
The term “social contract” is increasingly used in social science literature to describe sets of state-society relations – in particular with reference to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
M. Loewe, Tina Zintl, A. Houdret
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What If Fiduciary Obligations Are Like Contractual Ones? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This essay, to appear in Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law (Miller & Gold, 2016), explores three ways fiduciary obligations might be like contractual ones: in the methods lawmakers use or should use to determine the content of the obligation; in the ...
Klass, Gregory
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Remarks on Andreas Abegg's paper “From the Social Contract to a Social Contract Law” [PDF]

open access: yesAncilla 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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Violent societies: Educating the upcoming generations about their social contract

open access: yesKoers : 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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Why We Need a New Eco-Social Contract

open access: yessozialpolitik.ch, 2022
Calls for new economic and social approaches to combine social and climate justice have become louder and more urgent in light of the current COVID-19 and climate crises.
Isabell Kempf, Katja Hujo, Rafael Ponte
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Building a Social Contract? Understanding Tax Morale in Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Development Studies, 2020
An important part of every country’s development process is the building of a social contract in which citizens pay tax and, in turn, receive public goods and services.
N. McCulloch   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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