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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

Southern Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 128-141, July 2026.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Constitutional Courts and Supreme Courts: A Difficult Relationship [PDF]

, 2021
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International Legitimation of Authoritarianism: Venezuela's United Nations General Assembly Discourse and Domestic Power Consolidation (1999–2023)

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Venezuelan government defended the gradual transformation of the country's political system from democracy to authoritarianism in an international forum. Building on the concept of international legitimation strategies, we qualitatively analyse Venezuelan government speeches at the United Nations General Assembly (
Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz, Osmel Osuna
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Medicines availability in Ecuador's public system (2015-2024): a policy design analysis of financing, public procurement, and governance. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Hernández-Luis A, Fontaine G, Morales JL.   +2 more
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The Empirical Case for Judicial review: Judges as Agents and Judges as Trustees

Lawyers, constitutional theorists and political philosophers continue to disagree over the merits and legitimacy of judicial review. Borrowing insights from delegation theory, industrial organization as well as empirical accounts of judicial behaviour ...
Dyevre, Arthur
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¿Un país de irresponsables?: Filming Responsibility for Environmental Harm in the Judicialised Matanza‐Riachuelo River Basin

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how documentary film constructs responsibility for environmental harm in response to the Argentine Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on the polluted Matanza‐Riachuelo river basin. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio‐legal, film and cultural studies, the analysis explores how three documentaries envisage ...
Oliver Wilson‐Nunn
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Medical Termination of Pregnancy: Contrast in American and Indian Positions in the Global Scenario. [PDF]

Indian J Community Med
Sethi S, Arora P, Thimmaiah G.
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Direct democracy and political extremism

Economica, Volume 93, Issue 371, Page 1095-1121, July 2026.
Abstract We study how citizens' right to directly decide on policies through popular initiatives affects the attractiveness of extreme candidates in representative elections. In our theoretical framework, single prominent policy issues on which individual voters hold extreme views get a large weight in their assessment of candidates, thereby favouring ...
Nicolas Schreiner, Alois Stutzer
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Delivering virtual cardiac rehabilitation within correctional facilities to fulfill the decree of Estelle versus Gamble. [PDF]

NPJ Digit Med
Matsumura ME, Nelson F, Zimmerman A, Bower-Stout CL, Matsumura TS, Martin B.   +5 more
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Regulatory Governance in the Era of Populist Ascendancy: A Tug‐of‐War Between Independent Public Authorities and Central Government in Greece

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT While independent public authorities in Greece have mushroomed over time, they have to an extent been unable to fulfill their mission, owing to a context of acute political party polarization and political distrust in which these authorities operate. Governments have initially tended to support the establishment of independent authorities, but
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos
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