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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"collective interests"”.
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La qualificazione degli interessi plurisoggettivi e l’evoluzione dei mezzi di tutela nel sistema amministrativo
… are many legal scholars who have qualified the interests such as interests of a purely factual and they have started the discussion of legal consistency of common interests and arrangements of protection. Many docrtinal conflicts about protections way of collective interests started due to the …
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Building voices : a comparative analysis of neighborhood involvement in affecting large-scale development in three Boston neighborhoods
… neighborhood divisions not only prevent the collective interests of the neighborhood from being addressed but can also enable the city to put aside neighborhood interests in favor of maintaining the interests of the greater public. In addition, the thrust of a neighborhood's effort to …
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The Longest Journey Begins With a Single Step: A Real Options Approach to Social Dilemmas
Collective action faces a public goods social dilemma where there exists an inherent tension between individual and collective interests. Considering the economic and social significance of public goods dilemmas, an important research question is why public goods dilemmas often result in collective …
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Design of a Support Tool for Citizens Engaging in Urban Planning Online
… to existing levels of cooperation and agreement, collective interests, values, and responsibilities, need for resource management, costs of strategies, and explicitly addressing value conflicts. A prototype is constructed using a selection of design components, then tested via online survey, and …
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JUDICIAL COLLECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN A MULTILEVEL EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE. A FOCUS ON THE ITALIAN CLASS ACTION REGIME
… introduced a dual (injunctive and compensatory) collective procedure of general application. For this purpose, the investigation analyses, also with a comparative lens, the constitutional foundations of collective enforcement (as opposed to individual one), the specific use of collective …
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The group-based binding pledge as a solution to public goods problems
… between two choices: maximizing personal interests (defection) or maximizing collective interests (cooperation). It is generally more profitable to defect, but if all do so, all are worse off than if all choose to cooperate. A public goods dilemma is a special case of a social dilemma in …
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Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia
… and doctors employ on behalf of personal and collective interests. Here, there is a commitment to a complex understanding of ethics of care as people work to navigate the transition from socialism that embodies longstanding ideas about state and citizenship, marked by tropes of, respectively, …
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Justice, Sanctioning, and Retaliation In Public Goods Dilemmas
<p>The problem of collective action occurs when individual and collective interests are at odds. Actors in social dilemmas are typically confronted with two choices: to cooperate with group interests, often at some expense of self-interest, or to free-ride off others' cooperation. A dilemma thus …
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There's a Place for Us: How Ethnic Identities Are Revealed in Ethnic-Specific Organizations
… and history. They have also been sites where collective interests are pursued. In this dissertation I study two ethnic-specific organizations. Using identity, incorporation and</p> <p>inequality, as essential dimensions of American ethnicity, I describe how the political and civic work that …
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Workers against Institutions: Power Relations and Political economy in the Irish Mushroom Industry
… a second contradiction arises, that between the interests and dynamics of labour institutions, such as trade unions and workers‘ based Non-Governmental Organisations, and workers‘ collective interests. This second contradiction, which I consider a reflection of the main contradiction between …
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Įmonės, verslo ar jų dalių perdavimas Europos Bendrijos ir Lietuvos darbo teisėje /
… nature to the implementation of individual and collective labour rights. On the other hand, the conformity of regulation in this sphere under Lithuanian labour law with the Directive 2001/23/EC is questionable for many reasons. The provisions regulating the transfer of undertaking, business or …
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NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY V REGIONALISM; TOWARD A COMMON FISHERIES POLICY FOR CARICOM
… to subordinate the individual interest to the collective interest. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – which is the second oldest regional institution in the Western Hemisphere – is the central focus of the work. In order to assess this hypothesis, the study first discusses the relevant …
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Who's Attending the Party? Elections, Parties, and Democratization in Postcommunist States
… seekers compete in groups. Parties develop collective interests, goals, and objectives which their members need to adhere in order to pursue their own interests; party competition makes politics more coherent and transparent to the electorate which facilitates effective voting and government …
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Irrigationalism – the politics and ideology of irrigation development in the Nam Songkhram Basin, Northeast Thailand
… processes to further their individual and collective interests. The research contends that irrigation development is justified by socially constructed narrative framings located within the cultural and historical milieu of Thailand, understood to form part of a resilient and rather static …
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The geopolitical context of NATO's role in the Middle East
… with, if not an expression of, US strategic interests. Overall, the dissertation establishes that NATO has developed significantly its Middle East role in response to 9/11 and under American influence and pressure. Nonetheless, it is shown that while NATO helps achieve the objectives of US …
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The Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887-1937
… strength of working together to protect their collective interests. These Conferences were crucial to the transition from Empire to Commonwealth. As it appeared, the British Commonwealth of Nations retained the Conferences as their governing body and its consensus approach to decision-making …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… nonpolitical everyday social institutions and collective action rooted in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance public policies in developing societies. I document these complementary mechanisms using microdata and policy variations in Indonesia, an important case …
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Let My People Stay: Irregular Migrants' Struggle for Rights and Recognition
… to self-organize as a diasporic group with collective interests as well the cooperation they built with local human-rights NGOs and other aid groups as the basis for their successful collective operation. Their struggle raised important questions about Israel’s migration regime, workforce …
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The nature of public action: social environments, psychological traits and mobilization
When advancing our personal interests and our notions of the common interest, we must often act cooperatively with others to pursue common goals. The challenges that can arise are notorious. Citizens can benefit from outcomes, even if they do not contribute to the public actions that create them. …
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Environmental adaptation, political coercion, and illegal behavior: Small-scale fishing in the Gulf of California.
… traditional fishing families and have access to collective knowledge about the marine environment that has accumulated through generations, are better able to deal with a highly unpredictable environment and minimize risk. Those who do not have access to this knowledge have specialized in the …
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