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Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine (2020)
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Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine provides a detailed exegesis of the analogy between the self (as body and soul, always in relation to other such beings) and the city (or political society) in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo (354... Read More about Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine.
Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe (2020)
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How can governments manage civil servants to enhance public service motivation (PSM)? Despite the centrality of PSM in public administration research, the effects of management practices on PSM remain understudied. We address this gap through a conjo... Read More about Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.
Sieyès and republican liberty (2020)
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In On the People’s Terms, Philip Pettit incorporates the Sieyèsian notion of constituent power into his constitutional theory of non-domination. In this article, I argue that Emmanuel Sieyès’s understanding of liberty precludes such an appropriation.... Read More about Sieyès and republican liberty.
Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study (2020)
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What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that t... Read More about Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study.
Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications (2020)
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Parties’ electoral communications play a central role in British campaigns. Yet, we know little about the nature of the material contained in these communications and how parties’ campaign messages differ across constituencies or elections. In this a... Read More about Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications.
Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol (2020)
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© 2020 Author(s). Published by BMJ. Introduction Slavery and human trafficking are crimes involving the violation of human rights and refer to exploitative situations where an individual cannot refuse or leave due to threats, coercion or abuse of pow... Read More about Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol.
Working with the Financial Sector to Correct the Market Failure of Modern Slavery (2020)
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Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal (2020)
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Recently, policy actors have posited the promotion of public integrity as a new response to corruption in government and the decline in trust in public institutions. However, often, this use of the term «public integrity» amounts to little more than... Read More about Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal.
Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil (2020)
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In the current structure of careers in the Brazilian Federal Government, public officials who do not hold a DAS position have two predominant ways of reaching a higher salary level: years of service and passing a written examination for a higher paid... Read More about Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil.
Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe (2020)
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© 2020, The Author(s). Land-based fish-processing activities in coastal fringe areas and their social-ecological impacts have often been overlooked by marine scientists and antislavery groups. Using remote sensing methods, the location and impacts of... Read More about Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe.
China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria: From Sovereignty Protection to Pragmatism (2020)
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Will the rise of China, an authoritarian, party-state with a poor record of protecting its citizens' human rights, undermine humanitarian intervention? This question has been particularly pertinent since China's 'assertive turn' in foreign policy. Dr... Read More about China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria: From Sovereignty Protection to Pragmatism.
Forced Marriage Real Simple (2020)
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The concepts of 'real rape' and 'real rape victim' play a key role in the reporting and prosecution of rape cases and strongly influence their outcomes. Similar biases and misconceptions obscure other acts of gender-based violence such as forced marr... Read More about Forced Marriage Real Simple.
Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism (2020)
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Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European h... Read More about Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism.
What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians? (2020)
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The aim of this article is to explore the motivations of street-level bureaucrats when implementing change initiated by elected politicians. We analyse experimental data on more than 1,800 local civil servants from all 243 local governments in South... Read More about What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians?.
(Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries (2020)
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Do management practices have similar anti-corruption eects in OECD and developing countries? Despite prominent cautions against 'New Zealand' reforms which enhance managerial discretion in developing countries, scholars have not assessed this questio... Read More about (Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries.
De kern van de politiek (2020)
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The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights (2020)
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This article challenges the traditional approach to studying the creation of foreign policy within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Whilst most historical and contemporary research has focused upon the role of the Foreign Secretary, Permanent Un... Read More about The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights.