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The Medium in the Sociology of Niklas Luhmann: From Children to Human Beings
Educational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 6, Page 890-916, December 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, Christian Morgner provides a critical reading of Niklas Luhmann's thinking as ignoring human beings or even as antihumanist. Here, he presents an alternative view that centers on Luhmann's idea of the child or human being as a medium.
Christian Morgner
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Global legal change from below and above
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 295-321, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P.
TERENCE C. HALLIDAY
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Mainstreaming Authoritarianism
The Political Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 3, Page 428-436, July/September 2023., 2023 Abstract Starting from the debate on democratic decline, this article introduces the concept of ‘mainstreaming authoritarianism’ in a bid to turn attention to the role and agency of traditional political actors in the process. The article summarises key findings of relevant studies on autocratisation and highlights issues with the many concepts ...
Giorgos Katsambekis
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Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 181-201, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Are the sociological profiles of radical right‐wing populist parties' (RRPPs) representatives really unlike those of their counterparts in mainstream parties? Once RRPPs occupy positions of legislative power for an extended period, do their MPs' profiles increasingly converge with those of more mainstream parties?
Oscar Mazzoleni +2 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 13, Issue 3, Page 277-295, September 2022., 2022 Abstract In abstaining from law‐enforced virus containment measures, the Swedish response to the severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic crisis stood out as radically different compared to other European nations. The present study aims to provide an understanding of the deviant Swedish crisis strategy and to do so from a cultural perspective
Sandra Simonsen
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Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 294-316, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Based on cross‐national comparative research conducted in France and the United Kingdom, this article explores to what extent and under what conditions trade unions situated in different legal systems have turned to the courts to challenge discrimination at work.
CéCILE GUILLAUME +1 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 130-157, June 2021., 2021 Abstract Trust and confidence have been identified as crucial for efforts at solving the conundrum of high‐level radioactive waste management (RWM). However, mistrust has its virtues, especially in the form of “civic vigilance”—healthy suspicion towards the powers that be.
Markku Lehtonen +3 more
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Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 771-788, September 2025.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms
Policy &Internet, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT TikTok's rapid growth among young users has introduced unique challenges to existing frameworks for understanding child internet fame. We identify “KidTok” as a unique networked public for “internet famous” young people on TikTok shaped by the platform's sociotechnical environment and explore the novel risks that governance should address ...
Alex Turvy, Crystal Abidin
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Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 469-515, June 2025.ABSTRACT The ways in which accountancy (accounting, accountability, and accountants) has been a device of imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism, and therefore has had deleterious effects on Indigenous peoples in former colonies and continues to negatively impact immigrants in postcolonial OECD countries, is under‐researched.
Akolisa Ufodike
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