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Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma : Immigrants, Social Networks, and Institutional Fairness
Staffan Kumlin,Bo Rothstein +1 more
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Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma : Immigrants, social networks, and Institutional Fairness as discussed by the authors, is a book about the intersection of social networks and institutional fairness.Abstract:
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Taking Rights Seriously
Alan R. White,Ronald Dworkin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a judge in some representative American jurisdiction is assumed to accept the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction and to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l
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Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism
TL;DR: The authors argue for the importance of national solidarity as a progressive political resource and discuss how it can be reconciled with support for immigration and multiculturalism, and identify the prospects for a multicultural national solidarity, a multicultural welfare state, if you will.
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Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss trust, diversity, and segregation in a segregated society, including the United States, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
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Is There a Progressive's Dilemma in Canada? Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June 2, 2010
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between ethnic diversity and public support for social programs in Canada and found that there is little tension between diversity and support for the welfare state in Canada, and that ethnic diversity is not eroding support for welfare state.
Corruption and Social Trust: Why the Fish Rots from the Head Down
TL;DR: The Nordic countries came out on top irrespective of what measures were being used as mentioned in this paper, but not that they are countries with small and noninterventionist governments, which is a surprise to many when the social capital and social trust research agenda was being empirically researched.
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
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E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture
TL;DR: The authors found that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to "hunker down" and trust (even of one's own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer.
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Taking Rights Seriously
TL;DR: The Model of Rules I 3. The Model of rules II 4. Hard Cases 5. Constitutional Cases 6. Taking Rights Seriously 8. Civil Disobedience 9. Reverse Discrimination 10. Liberty and Moralism 11.Liberty and Liberalism 12. What Rights Do We Have? 13. Can Rights be Controversial? Appendix: A Reply to Critics Index as mentioned in this paper
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Taking Rights Seriously
Alan R. White,Ronald Dworkin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a judge in some representative American jurisdiction is assumed to accept the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction and to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l
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Who Trusts Others
TL;DR: The authors found that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and women; iii) being economically unsuccessful in terms of income and education; iv) living in a racially mixed community and/or in one with a high degree of income disparity.