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What People Want: Exercise and Personalized Intervention as Preferred Strategies to Improve Well-Being and Prevent Chronic Diseases. [PDF]

Nutrients
Solaro N, Pagani E, Oggionni G, Giovanelli L, Capria F, Galiano M, Marchese M, Cribellati S, Lucini D.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

International climate adaptation assistance: Assessing public support in Switzerland. [PDF]

PLoS One
Andonova L, Zucca A, Montfort S, Dolšak N, Prakash A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural problems without structural solutions? Youth leaders' perceptions of their community. [PDF]

Am J Community Psychol
Hjelm LL, Brown AA, Fisher BW, Story A, Bennett N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Corporate Tax System Complexity and Investment Sensitivity to Tax Policy Changes

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective policymakers must balance the demands of formulating a corporate tax system that raises revenue and spurs economic activity (e.g., investment) while promoting a “level playing field” across firms. Balancing these tradeoffs has likely caused tax systems to become more complex over time, increasing firms’ difficulty in understanding ...
HARALD AMBERGER, JOHN GALLEMORE, JARON WILDE   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling laws of political regime dynamics: stability of democracies and autocracies in the twentieth century. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Pirker-Diaz P, Wilson MC, Beier S, Wiesner K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Old Boys' Clubs: Financial Analysts' Utilization of Professional Connections

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women often lack the opportunity to join exclusive social clubs, limiting the benefits they derive from their social networks. We investigate whether, when given the opportunity to interact with the right people in a professional setting, women gain greater advantages from these connections for career performance and advancement compared to ...
MENGQIAO DU, RACHEL XI ZHANG
wiley   +1 more source

Where Are the Sore Losers? Competitive Authoritarianism, Incumbent Defeat, and Electoral Trust in Zambia's 2021 Election. [PDF]

Public Opin Q
Kerr N, Krönke M, Wahman M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source