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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.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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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Abundant deer populations often cause conflicts in suburban communities, yet traditional population reduction methods, such as controlled hunting, can be challenging to implement. Fertility control, specifically through ovariectomy, can limit reproduction and reduce populations in certain settings, but its effect on movement behavior remains poorly ...
Vickie DeNicola +2 more
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The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad +2 more
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
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The WHO Pandemic Agreement Negotiation: Introducing a New Database (The Pandemic Agreement Database)
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In May 2025, the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a historic pandemic agreement following 3 years of intensive and complex multilateral negotiations. By providing primary data on the negotiation process, the Pandemic Agreement Database supports empirical and scholarly research across multiple dimensions of global ...
Kevin Parthenay, Petra Godoy
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Global vaccine hesitancy declining…
New Scientist, 2021 People in richer nations are becoming more willing to have a covid-19 shot, matching attitudes in poorer countries, reports Adam Vaughan.
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Physicians' hybridisation with accounting in public hospitals
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Accounting information has become an integral part of management tools in public hospitals. Following COVID‐19, the crisis in the supply chain and the war in Ukraine severely impacted the financing of public hospitals. In response to this multi‐crisis environment, physicians have increased their awareness on an efficient use of scarce ...
Susana Gago‐Rodríguez +2 more
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
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The Paediatric BCG Vaccine Century: From Historical Success to Future Innovations
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, Bacille‐Calmette‐Guérin (BCG), protects infants against severe forms of primary TB. Yet, it does not protect against pulmonary reactivation TB in adults. Methods A literature review was conducted between 1st January and 28th February 2025 using PubMed, Google Scholar and reports of the World Health ...
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
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