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THE STATE AND THE SOCIAL

2012
Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues
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Social Capital and the Welfare State

2010
The economic and social success of the Nordic welfare states has puzzled social scientists for decades. Applying an institutional transformation model inspired by historical institutionalism, we suggest that the most important fuel is high levels of social capital accumulated through history.
Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard, Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase   +1 more
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States, orders and social distinction

2012
This essay seeks to compare different forms of the social distinction in Italy in the late Middle Ages, looking in particular at the specification of the hierarchical mechanisms and of the languages of aristocratic legitimation. In this perspective the framework of a ‘orders society’, whose issues are in part different from those of the previous ...
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Social Security, Personhood, and the State

Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2015
AbstractThis paper looks at the relationship between personhood and the state by taking a relational perspective both on the concept of personhood and on that of the state, and with a focus on social security. It presents a broad concept of social security.
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state target programs; social sphere; state social programs; financing of state social programs; forms and methods of financing state social programs

2021
Характерною ознакою сучасного етапу розвитку суспільства є соціалізація економічних систем і підпорядкування економічної функції держави соціальним цілям. Важлива роль щодо їх досягнення належить державним соціальним програмам. Існуючий стан їх виконання в Україні суттєво актуалізує питання, пов’язані з формуванням ефективної системи фінансового ...
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The Social State under the Rule of Law or Social State of Law

This reading aims to analyze the constitutional principle of Social State of Law under the theoretical framework of Pisarello. The Colombian Constitution established this form of state as an instrument to guarantee the right to equality in a society characterized by its deep inequalities both in income and enjoyment of human rights.
Nuby Dominga Mogollón Anaya, Liliana Rebeca Anaya Caraballo, José David Torrenegra Ariza   +2 more
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Social complexity and the emergent state

Politics, Philosophy & Economics
Many political philosophers assume the state can coherently reform a society's legal system to realize just, society-wide distributive outcomes. Gerald Gaus invoked social complexity to highlight the limitations of this ambition.
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The EU transformation of the social state

2018
This chapter explores different engagements between the 'Social State' and the EU. It begins with the 'Social State' under Embedded Liberalism, the regime articulated by the European Economic Communities between the end of World War II and late 1970s aimed at accommodating state economic and social interventionism and multilateral economic integration.
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella Korn
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State socialism

2022
Włodzimierz Borodziej, Dragoş Petrescu
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