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The Decent Society
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The concept of humiliation: humiliation rights honour as discussed by the authors, the grounds of respect: justifying respect the sceptical solution being beastly to humans, and Decency as a social concept: the paradox of humiliation rejection citizenship culture.Abstract:
Part 1 The concept of humiliation: humiliation rights honour. Part 2 The grounds of respect: justifying respect the sceptical solution being beastly to humans. Part 3 Decency as a social concept: the paradox of humiliation rejection citizenship culture. Part 4 Putting social institutions to the test: snobbery privacy bureaucracy the welfare society unemployment punishment.read more
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Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on countries that do qualify as polyarchies, but have weak or intermittent horizontal accountability, which is no mean feat; even some countries that regularly hold elections fail to meet these criteria.
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The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice
TL;DR: The Handbook of Conflict Resolution as discussed by the authors is a classic handbook for conflict resolution that is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field like power, gender, cooperation, emotion, and trust.
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The good lives model and conceptual issues in offender rehabilitation
Tony Ward,Mark Brown +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the importance of adopting a positive approach to treatment; the relationship between risk management and good lives; causal preconditions of therapy; and the impact of therapists' attitudes toward offenders.
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Recognition and justice: outline of a plural theory of justice
TL;DR: In this article, Axel Honneth outlines a plural theory of justice and makes strong reservations about Fraser's approach, where'recognition' and'redistribution' are separated into two conceptual totalities with the single goal of "participatory equality".
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Mortality, the Social Environment, Crime and Violence
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between various categories of income inequality, median state income, social trust and mortality and found that violent crime, but not property crime, is closely related to income inequality.
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Tools for Conviviality
TL;DR: The multidimensional analysis of ceilings for industrial growth was first formulated in a Spanish document co-authored by Valentina Borremans and myself and submitted as a guideline for a meeting of two dozen Chilean socialists and other Latin Americans at CIDOC (the Center for Intercultural Documentation) in Cuernavaca, Mexico.