Allegiance, Citizenship and the Law
Helen Irving explores the historical and modern concept of allegiance, critiquing its role in citizenship, and arguing that it is outdated in liberal democracies while offering new perspectives on the relationship between citizens and the state
Subjective vs. objective assessment of the economic impacts of light rail transit
While the current discourse surrounding the economic impacts of light rail transit (LRT) predominantly leans on objective metrics, emerging signs point to a possible disparity between subjective perceptions and these objective evaluations. Liton Kamruzzaman endeavours to fill this void by scrutinizing the impacts of the G:Link in Gold Coast, Australia on local businesses, prompted by anecdotal commentary of adverse effects.
Vulnerability
Mathew Hayward explores vulnerability in business leadership, arguing that embracing vulnerability fosters stronger connections and builds trust with colleagues and clients.
Assessing Community Readiness for Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes
Primary forest conservation is crucial for combating climate change, achieving conservation goals, and meeting Sustainable Development Goals. Compensation schemes for communities are key policy tools but require insight into local deforestation drivers and community preferences. Using Q-methodology, Christopher Fleming explores discourses in three communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement
Retirement is one of the most impactful career transitions athletes face. Researchers recognise the role that athletic identity plays in this, but analysis of identity content and change processes is limited. Catherine Haslam discusses the experience of identity change in competitive and successful elite athletes who had retired from sport.
Liminality as wage penalty for India’s women community health workers
Vrinda Marwah discusses the experiences of the world’s largest all-women community health workforce through the lens of liminality.
How the Social Becomes the Biological: The Interaction Between the Genome and the Environment
Gillian Einstein discusses the interaction between the genome and the environment and provides a discussion of the role of epigenetics in modifying the phenotype.
Strategy-Proof Multi-Issue Mediation: An Application to Online Dispute Resolution
Mediation, a key method of alternative dispute resolution, has become a multibillion-dollar industry globally. Online dispute resolution (ODR) providers utilize automated e-negotiation systems. Onur Kesten discusses a market design approach to create a framework for developing mediation mechanisms that are strategy-proof, efficient, and individually rational.
Probabilistic Forecasting of Wind and Solar Farm Output
John Boland discusses statistical forecasting tools to generate forecasts with prediction intervals, trailing them on one wind and one solar farm.
Environmental factors in health data reporting
Arnagretta Hunter, physician and cardiologist, discusses the effects of climate change on human health.
The New Legal Status of Animals as recognized in the Civil Code of Quebec
In 2015, the Civil Code of Quebec was amended to explicitly provide that animals are sentient beings with biological needs and not property. However, nearly 10 years later, the scope of this reform remains unclear. Sarah Berger Richardson discusses.
Patient care in the screening room
Elio Arruzza discusses ‘screening’ examinations and recommendations for practice, spanning from initial patient interaction through to aftercare.
Film tourist tribes
Glen Croy contributes societal interaction and film involvement dimensions to characterise film tourists, enabling a greater understanding of film tourists and film tourism.
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War
Pauline Grosjean describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la France database.
Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan
Nicole Watts discusses the political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee
Where the Wild Things Were
Henry Jenkins discusses iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood
A unified analytical parametric method for kinematic analysis of planar mechanisms
Kazem Abhary describes a method for unified parametric kinematic analysis of those planar mechanisms whose geometry can be defined with a set of independent vectorial loops.
Food Insecurity, Inflation and Government Aid
Food insecurity has become of increasing concern following the economic downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent sharp rise in inflation, including food price inflation. To better understand the conditions of food insecurity and the impacts of inflation and other drivers of food insecurity in developing Asia, Dina Azhgaliyeva discusses results from a household survey in 2023 in seven countries in Southeast Asia and nine countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
A Modern American Conservative
The late 20th century saw the rise of three closely related phenomena: modern American conservatism, Ronald Reagan, and right-wing Christianity. Russ Freure explores the ascent and convergence of these three forces, which combined to bring about a remarkable shift in the American zeitgeist during the 1980s.
Homegrown Radicals
Youcef Soufi discusses the story of how the War on Terror created the conditions for the emergence of a novel theory of jihad
Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India
Tupur Chatterjee discusses how middle-class women transformed India’s screen and exhibition industries
Planting the Seeds of Research
Louis A. Ferleger argues why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
Acrobatic Friendship as a Means to Détente?
Ana M. Martínez Alemán discusses the politics of friendship and acrobatic friendship
On Optimal Forest Management: A Bifurcation Analysis
The theory of optimal forest management is a key component of the economic theory of natural resources due to the fact that forests constitute a major renewable resource. It also constitutes one of the key examples of vintage capital theory, making it an important factor in understanding the general theory of intertemporal allocation. Swapan Dasgupta explores the theory of optimal forest management, focusing on the forester’s (optimal) policy function.
Elite Families and Settler Society, Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Cecilia Morgan discusses the history of two middle-class settler families in 19th-century Ontario, a project which explores themes of gender, social and cultural identity, middle-class formation, and settler and imperial relationships.
Why Is Knowledge of Ignorance Good?
When aporia leads to recognition of one’s limitations, it can encourage the pursuit of knowledge. Marina McCoy emphasizes the “affective” dimension in this process.
Political power sharing in post-conflict democracies
Chelsea Johnson employs data from the Varieties of Democracy project to test arguments about the pernicious institutional effects of political power-sharing settlements in post-conflict democracies
Masculinity in American Politics
Dan Cassino discusses how elements of masculinity manifest themselves in all aspects of American political life
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing “Executive Wisdom” as a Framework for Business Leadership: A Grounded Theory Approach
Ali Intezari contextualizes business leaders’ perspectives on business-society interaction through the theoretical lens of wisdom.
The Movement for Reproductive Justice
Patricia Zavella discusses how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change
Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly
Mark Derby discusses New Zealander Douglas Jolly, one of the most gifted and energetic surgeons of the Republican Army’s medical services
The Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Congestion: Evidence from Indian Cities
Deepa Mani discusses how the absence of ride-hailing services affects congestion levels in three major cities in India, a market where most ride-hailing drivers participate full time.
Listening to science in policy design
Antoine Lemor discusses the role of information selection and processing in policy design by studying school closure decisions during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Corporatocracy
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy describes how corporate greed led to scandal, corruption, and the January 6th insurrection―and how we can stop it from happening again
Children’s Rights and Children’s Development: An Integrated Approach
Jonathan Todres offers an assessment of how children’s rights take shape and are realized at various stages of child development and, in turn, can and should inform law and policy