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Integrating Merit and Equality to Address Gender Inequality at Work

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the extant literature provides a comprehensive account of workplace gender inequalities, the mechanisms that produce inequalities, and the underlying assumptions and principles of those mechanisms, remain opaque. The concept of “merit,” although morally persuasive and ubiquitous in organizational contexts, is a significant point of ...
Paula McDonald, Gill Kirton, Diane van den Broek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Trade Policy Seriously: Export Subsidization as a Case Study in Policy Effectiveness [PDF]

In thinking about policy, academic economists alternate between theoretical models in which governments can design finely-tuned optimal interventions and practical considerations which usually assume the government to be incompetent and hostage to ...
Dani Rodrik
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Between Steel and Skin: Corporeal Colonization of Women Workers and Gendered Organizations in Heavy Industry

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “I felt as if my body was being occupied by the factory.” The words of one woman working in Turkey's heavy industry were repeated in many accounts, capturing how industrial infrastructures calibrated to male norms press directly into women's bodies.
Esra Kasap, Janset Özen‐Aytemur, Cihat Erbil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Dimension in Selected Candidate Countries in the Balkans: Country Report on Turkey. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 41, 14 December 2007 [PDF]

, 2007
The European Commission awarded a contract in November 2005 to a consortium composed of the TARKI Social Research Institute (Hungary), CASE, Center for Social and Economic Research (Poland) and CEPS to analyse the socio-economic developments and the ...
Adaman, Fikret, Carkoglu, Ali, Ezran, Refik.   +2 more
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
wiley   +1 more source

The Leaner, Meaner State—And What It Means for Society

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Populism is an old phenomenon but one which appears to once again be in ascendance globally. Attributing a nation's problems to a wicked elite, populists seek to dismantle the old order and either remove or repurpose its institutions. This paper explores how populism changes economic governance and particularly, how its emphasis on fighting ...
Christopher A. Hartwell
wiley   +1 more source

Global Crisis, National Responses: The Political Economy of Turkish Exceptionalism [PDF]

With its dilatory and piecemeal fiscal activism and uncharacteristic reluctance toward IMF assistance, the Turkish government’s response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009 sharply contrasted the bold approaches adopted by other major emerging ...
Ali Burak Güven, Ziya Onis
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Caterpillar's Spatial Metamorphosis: Heavy Equipment Manufacturing in the 21st Century

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist
Utkarsh Kumar, Michael L. Dougherty
wiley   +1 more source

Islamophobia and Danish academia

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates how Danish academics participate in, interpret, and reproduce debates on the legal and normative regulation of Muslims in Denmark since the early 2000s. Through a thematic analysis of journal articles and public dissemination outputs authored by Danish researchers, it explores the social production of legal knowledge ...
SOFIE AALTONEN
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević, Stefan Nikolić, Rok Spruk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source