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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Social contract"”.
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Searching for a Social Contract
… state failure in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from a social contract perspective. Its main hypothesis is that authoritarianism will lead to state failure in the context of SSA. In this regard, SSA states are political communities that have not done enough to promote and develop a social contract that …
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Significance of Social Contract Theory for International Organization
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A Social Contract Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior
… and beliefs regarding the political and economic social contract, and greater amounts of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The theoretical foundation supporting this relationship is based in management literature on organizational cooperation, and political theory literature on …
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The Social Contract: Duty and Discrimination in Public Service
… to answer these questions and delve into the social contract between the American government and its citizens, often through the lens of sexual orientation. Using original correspondence from the Center for War Letters at Chapman University as well as existing works concerning Don’t Ask, Don’t …
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Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract
By combining normative philosophy and empirical social science, I craft a research framework for assessing differential expectations of economic justice within the economic social contract of the United States. I argue that distinct views of such a contract grounded in the tradition of …
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Designing policy feedback : experimental evidence on the everyday politics of the social contract
… contact with their governments. The modern social contract generates everyday interactions between citizens and states. In this dissertation, across three papers and three countries, I examine when and how such policy experiences shape attitudes toward government, using experimental methods …
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GOVERNING SHARING PLATFORMS COOPERATIVELY: ESSAYS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH
… che adottano la prospettiva del contratto sociale, la più compatibile con una forma di governance estesa e democratica, per giustificare invece l’attuale potere unilaterale di definizione delle regole da parte delle piattaforme digitali private e la conseguente distribuzione ineguale del …
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Three Economic Extensions of John Rawls's Social Contract Theory: European Fiscal Union, Tax Compliance and Climate Change
In my thesis I apply the ethical model developed by John Rawls (1999) to three systems which have an economic dimension: European Union, tax compliance and environmental sustainability. With this task my purpose is to answer to the following overarching research question: is an impartial and …
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… in their conceptual foundation and structure, to Social Contract theory. My dissertation examines African American slave narratives and social contract theory concurrently providing a new opportunity to explore the creation of the political self within the liberal tradition, specifically via …
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The social contract for science : Congress, the National Institutes of Health, and the boundary between politics and science
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1993.
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The Micro-implications of a disintegrating social contract : public pension funds and community investing in New York City
… is occurring in the context of a disintegrating social contract could be a troubling feature, where private citizens are subsidizing their communities in the absence of state support. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "social contract" as "an actual or hypothetical agreement among the …
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Operationalalizing social contract: application of relational contract theory to exploration of constraints on implementation of an employee assistance program
… implementation by exploring the nature of contractual relations in the construction industry. The program of interest was the Laborers’ Membership Assistance Program. Second, it sought to operationalize behavioral norms identified by Macneil in his work on relational contract. The …
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Institutionalisation and destabilisation of the public research governance paradigm: What can we learn about the next social contract for science from small industrialised democratic states?
National Research, Science and Innovation (RSI) systems are marked by inherent tensions and competing expectations that drive their policy dynamics. Domestic governments expect to see impact from their investment, but the nature of that impact is often left implicit and open to contestation. At the …
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The Ethics of Codes of Ethics
… codes of ethics have long been understood as social contracts and have evolved in the way they are developed in some countries to reflect this, through regular consultation processes and periodic updates. If the medical code of ethics is breached, then attention often turns to those who breach …
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The Ethics of Codes of Ethics
… codes of ethics have long been understood as social contracts and have evolved in the way they are developed in some countries to reflect this, through regular consultation processes and periodic updates. If the medical code of ethics is breached, then attention often turns to those who breach …
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
… for an ethic in advertising based on the social contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) and the contemporary work of John Rawls (1971). The central claim is that advertising is a social institution of import situated within the broader concept of consumer culture, and as such, its social …
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The victim role: an exploration into descriptions and evaluations of victims
… sympathy. However, this hypothesis is untested. Social contract theory posits that people are suspicious of social exchanges; claims to the victim role activate a social contract that requires others to engage in a social exchange. Thus, people may seek to disqualify victimization claims, but may …
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Civic friendship and a value assumption in Rawls.
… twentieth century, John Rawls reinvigorated the social contract theory in political philosophy. Previous contract theories could not explain how those bound by the social contract consent to be bound. Rawls argues that we consent to the contract hypothetically. If we would agree, under ideal …
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A safer and more civilized country : gun control, public health, and the state monopoly on force
… with discourses on "civilization" and the "social contract". The latter generated beliefs that individuals are dangerous, in order to legitimate the State monopoly on force; this idea is the basis of public health, which seeks to direct unlimited State power to control danger. The …
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Balancing liberty of contract with police power : a Hobbesian approach.
… will explore our constitution's roots in social contract theory, looking particularly to the thought of Thomas Hobbes for a third option that is consistent with the language and tradition of the Constitution, and is also more effectually viable than existing alternatives. Within a …
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