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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Social contract theory"”.
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Significance of Social Contract Theory for International Organization
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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 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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On Hypothetical Contracts
… dissertation develops a critique of Rawlsian social contract theory by arguing that the normative component of democratic practices must be grounded in nonpolitical reasons. With John Rawls’s rights-based approach, social contract theory has strongly resurfaced by focusing on consent as the …
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A Hybrid Theory of Global Justice
… level? In my dissertation, I develop an original theory of global justice that can answer these questions and I show how my theory applies to current problems. I start by articulating why we need a theory of international justice and introducing the theories that have already been proposed. I …
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Regulating lobbying’s influence on trade policy in South Africa to achieve openness, transparency and integrity.
… world, biblical covenants have given way to social contracts between governments and citizens in terms of social contract theory which posits that citizens relinquish power to governments in exchange for governance aligned with their interests; while lobbying has surged into a multi-billion …
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The Event of Revolution
… limits earlier theories of revolution, such as social contract theory and Marxism, both of which present certain parts of the state as unchangeable. Social contract theorists necessitate that certain elements like the sovereign and the nature of the contract be preserved, while Marxism maintains …
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Towards a Flexible Bayesian and Deontic Logic of Testing Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules
… des WST (wie der Mental Model Theorie, der Social Contract Theory oder der Pragmatic Reasoning Schema Theorie) erklärt werden, sondern machen zumindest deren Erweiterung notwendig. Die Ergebnisse stützen den hier vertretenen Ansatz einer flexiblen bayesschen und deontischen Logik des Testens …
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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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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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Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society
… as central to political life, exemplified in social contract theory, to a fear of stability as detrimental to political life, evident in much contemporary political philosophy. I refer to this tendency to disavow stability and advocate for political praxes that are disruptive and …
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Stakeholder Relationships in the Nigerian Oil Industry
… in the industry. This resulted in the choice of Social Contract and Resource Dependence theories to be used in harmony as part of the theoretical base for this study, as a further expansion of Stakeholder theory. The Social Contract theory helps to bring out the place of agreement in the …
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An analysis of South Africa's health policy performance to the COVID-19 pandemic during the period March 2020 and June 2022
… an equitable scale to all members of different social classes, the measure of equitability would be: 1) the effective use of resources allocated to reduce impact of COVID-19, and 2) quantitative data that shows improved access to healthcare during the mentioned period, and if the power of …
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Privatizing the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to Protect. : Considering a Normative Argument for Why the Contractor Might Be Better Suited Vis-à-Vis the State Soldier to Serve Common Humanity
… between society, state and soldier using liberal Social Contract theory. Through the normative conceptualization of civil-military relations I identified a normative explanation for the empirical observation that soldiers when employed on humanitarian interventions, provide security often …
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
… Eva Kittay’s 1999 book, Love’s Labor, reexamines social contract theory in terms of what she calls the “dependency relation” and its attendant ethics of care. Bringing together mental disability with an analysis of both gender and race, Kittay’s work undergirds my own project’s intervention into …