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The Social Contract in the European Union's Context

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government Financial Reporting: A Study of Nested Controversy

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are two schools of thought on government financial reporting: one emanating from societal values and accountability to citizens; and one based on investment decisions and a business approach. There are staunch proponents of these different perspectives, which are rooted in economic thought and values.
Sheila Ellwood, Rhoda Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Between Supranationalism and Inter-Governmentalism in the European Union’s Foreign Policy: A Principal-Agent Approach of the Sanction Policy in the CFSP Framework

open access: yesRevista UNISCI, 2017
Integration in the EU Foreign Policy domain has been sporadic, preventing the EU from gaining traction internationally. However, the imposition of international sanctions has generated a great degree of member state cooperation at the EU level.
Constance Barbou des Courières
doaj  

Sovereignty Versus Supranationality: The ECOWAS Conundrum

open access: yesEuropean Scientific Journal, ESJ, 2016
The formation of any regional (supranational), body requires the surrender of a measure of sovereignty for the purpose of making the body sturdy and effective. ECOWAS member States have since its inception, demonstrated a noted reluctance to become fully committed to the tenets of the ECOWAS.
openaire   +2 more sources

Arthropod niche differentiation linked to grazing‐induced sward islets in intensively managed agricultural pasture

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
In a given number of samples, grassland sward islets contain more species of arthropods than the surrounding sward. When corrected for abundance, there is no difference in species richness, suggesting that the effect of islets might purely be to concentrate arthropods. The community structure differences indicated by non‐metric multidimensional scaling
Alvin J. Helden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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