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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on policy diffusion, the ways in which policy attention influences this process remain underexplored. This study addressed this gap by distinguishing between three types of policy attention—political speeches, policy issuance and field visits—and investigating their differential impacts when delivered by central and ...
Xiangning Chen, Yahua Wang
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Rhetorical Diffusion and Policy Latency: Tracing AIPAC Influence in US–Iran Relations (2010–2026)

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT How do domestic interest groups shape the transition from diplomatic agreements to kinetic warfare? This research article addresses the methodological stagnation in foreign policy analysis by introducing a computational text‐as‐data pipeline to systematically quantify lobbying influence.
Bülent Aras
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Diagnosing Institutional Design‐Implementation Gaps: A Dual‐Layer Systems Modeling Language Protocol for Visualizing Institutional Change Mechanisms

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a dual‐layer protocol for diagnosing how formal institutional designs are implemented in practice in complex governance systems. The protocol builds two linked process maps; one for the formal rules and procedures (rules‐in‐form) and one for the routines actors actually follow in practice (rules‐in‐use).
Sina Jangjoo, Tian Tang, Laura Arpan, Emily Lapan, D. G. Webster, Patrick Bitterman, John C. Little, Amro M. Farid   +7 more
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Care Without Justice: Moral Obligation and Food Politics in an Authoritarian Moment

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Contemporary food politics is often grounded in a normative alignment of care and justice, in which attentiveness to vulnerability, embodiment, and lived experience is understood to reinforce commitments to equity, redistribution, and institutional responsibility. This synthesis has been central to food justice scholarship.
Michael S. Carolan
wiley   +1 more source

Revisitando los aportes de las teorías del sur: nexos entre teoría y praxis en Argentina y Brasil

Relaciones Internacionales, 2013
El objetivo central de este artículo es, por un lado, indagar sobre la génesis y la trayectoria de las denominadas teorías de las Relaciones Internacionales del sur, entendiendo que ellas están compuestas por un grupo heterogéneo de enfoques que se ...
María Elena LORENZINI, María Gisela PEREYRA DOVAL   +1 more
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“The Same Bullets”: Circuits of Violence and Materialist Solidarity From Rio de Janeiro's Favelas to Occupied Palestine

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of materialist solidarity: political connection that emerges when peripheralized subjects discover shared position within traceable circuits of violence rather than through sympathetic identification or abstract ideology.
Fernando Brancoli
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory fuzzy cognitive modelling reveals leverage points for agroecological adoption in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1817-1831, June 2026.
Abstract Global institutions are increasingly calling for an agroecological transition of our food systems to promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, safeguard agrobiodiversity and foster socio‐ecological resilience to a changing climate. Yet adoption remains limited, and there is a paucity of research examining how local conditions enable and ...
Gabriela Marie Garcia, Quetzalcóatl Orozco‐Ramírez, Ximena de la Mora Bakjejian, Reyna Domínguez Yescas, Emilio Hernández Martínez, Patricia Balvanera   +5 more
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Complexity and the Global Security Governance of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Regulatory Deadlock and Practices of Relational Transcendence

World Affairs, Volume 189, Issue 3, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT One of the most prominent contemporary issues in the arms control domain is the regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS). Today, there exist global governance procedures for AWS due to intense legal and ethical concerns, especially about those equipped with Artificial Intelligence capabilities, herein referred to as intelligent AWS (IAWS).
Dimitris Tsintsaris
wiley   +1 more source

Gasto público y ciclo electoral en Venezuela. Período 1977–2012

Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2017
Durante el período 1977–2012, la economía venezolana experimentó un desempeño macroeconómico precario; situación que fue acompañada por la existencia de dificultades en las finanzas públicas, que terminaron tornándose en un factor que contribuía a la ...
Machado N., Gustavo E.
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