Dissertations / Theses: 'Social Rules Theory'

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Maroldi, Marcelo Masson. "A theory of Normativity." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-11042017-085838/.

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This work discusses a way of thinking the normative practices as a phenomenon better understood through a pragmatic account of social practices. We claim that an appropriate approach to normativity should accept the presence, in the normative creature, of natural capacities intrinsically related to norm-governed activities, especially what we call a normative attitude. Thus, we present a discussion on the rule-based account of normativity understood as a sort of intersubjective practice grounded in practical skills and learning processes as well. We also indicate why the pragmatic model appropriately fits with a connectionist model of cognition. Finally, we argue that normative practices should be understood primarily in terms of internal patterns, functionally defined, instituted as nonexplicit, non-conscious individual processes. The consequence is a practical, inferentialist, connectionist, and implicit approach to the normativity.
Este trabalho discute um modo de pensar as práticas normativas como um fenômeno melhor entendido através de uma explicação pragmática das praticas sociais. Afirmamos que uma estratégia apropriada para entender a normatividade deve aceitar a presença, nas criaturas normativas, de capacidades naturais intrinsecamente relacionadas às atividades governadas por normas, especialmente o que chamamos de atitudes normativas. Assim, apresentamos uma discussão de uma abordagem da normatividade baseada em regras entendidas como um tipo de prática intersubjetiva fundada em habilidades práticas e, também, em processes de aprendizado. Indicamos, então, por que um modelo pragmático se adéqua apropriadamente a um modelo conexionista de cognição. Finalmente, argumentamos que as práticas normativas devem ser entendidas primeiramente em termos de padrões internos, funcionalmente definidos, instituídos como processos individuais não explícitos e não conscientes. A consequência é uma explicação prática, inferencialista, conexionista e implícita da normatividade.

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Thrasher, John James. "Contractarianism With a Human Face." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311553.

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Contractarianism with a Human Face reinterprets the social contract, not as a model to generate a unique set of rules of justice, but as a dynamic process for making comparative institutional evaluations. An institutional reorientation allows contractarians to abandon the untenable assumption of a homogeneous model of agency (be it austere rational choice or Rawlsian reasonableness), replacing it with diverse agents living under institutions all can rationally endorse, and to which they have different reasons to comply. Contractarianism With a Human Face is a contractarian theory that differs from all other contractarian theories because it rejects the search for a unique answer to the question of what is justice. It does not flee from diversity, but instead finds new solutions to old problems through broadening the contractual model and the agents that make it up. This version of contractarianism has a human face in the sense that it starts from the diversity, disorder, and complexity of human life and seeks to find rules that we can all live under. Not by eliminating that diversity, but by embracing it. In so doing, however, it fundamentally changes the shape of contractarian theory. By rejecting the search for a unique "solution" to what rules of justice are justified, Contractarianism With a Human Face becomes a project of evaluating contingent and evolving institutions and constitutional rules. Rationality and justice are reconciled, at least partially, though human history.

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Short, Leonie Marianne, and n/a. "Conflict Escalation in Response to Continued Pushy, Dominating Behaviour in the Workplace: Ideal and Everyday Response Strategies Examined." Griffith University. School of Applied Psychology, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040416.141210.

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The aim of the current research program was to investigate the social context of escalation in response to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. In doing so, this research program contributes to the development of communication skills by investigating the entire context of skills required for effective communication in managing everyday conflict in the workplace. The response class, Responding to continued pushy or dominating behaviour in the workplace, was selected as a vehicle for examining the context of escalation for two reasons. Firstly, this response class, by the very nature of pushy behaviour, embodies a continued interaction. In the past, assertive communication research has focused on one off responses rather than a continued interaction. Secondly, this response class has been identified in previous research as being of interest to assertiveness trainees (Cooley, 1979, Lefevre & West, 1984, Wilson & Gallios, 1993). The theoretical premise of the current research program resides in the application of Social Rules Theory to the difficult face-to-face communication situation, or response class, of responding to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. In doing so, this approach also takes into account dialectical theory, conflict resolution theory, and the concept of response components that can be selected and/or combined in order to meet the requirements, or rules, of a specific situation. In adopting the Social Rules approach, the current research program addresses the key criticisms of the traditional approach to assertion and assertion training, namely that people behaving assertively are sometimes negatively evaluated for assertive behaviour (Wilson & Gallois, 1993); and that assertion traditionally focused on the expressiveness of a response at the unintended cost of social or contextual appropriateness (Crawford, 1988); that finding a response is assertive does not delineate which aspects of the response are producing which types of effects (Galassi, 1978; Mullinix & Galassi, 1981). Most importantly, the current research contributes to the field by examining the negative response class in terms of a response sequence of escalation, rather than a one-off response. This is new research and contributes to the field theoretically and to the conceptualisation of assertion and communication. In order to meet the goals of the current research program, the response class Responding to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace, was defined precisely in terms of the situational context. This response class implies a workplace relationship of an ongoing nature. Four other variables were involved in defining and investigating the situation. These were status, gender of message sender, gender of message receiver, and response level (initial response, first escalation or second escalation). The current program of research was carried out in a series of three related studies, and these four variables were examined in each of the three studies. The purpose of the first study was to elicit social rules and goals for interpersonally effective and appropriate escalation strategies in response to pushy dominating communication in the workplace. This study was conducted in two parts, a qualitative questionnaire completed by 20 females and 20 males, and two focus groups, one for females and one for males. Content analysis revealed a set of rules for an escalation sequence for each combination of status and gender. These rules were then operationalized, filmed and analysed in the second study. One hundred and twenty-three participants (64 females and 59 males) with work experience watched the operationalized responses and rated them on a series of seven scales. These scales were effectiveness in stopping the pushy behaviour (task effectiveness), effectiveness in maintaining the relationship (maintenance effectives), social appropriateness, interpersonal skill required, risk involved, personal difficulty in making the response, and likelihood of making the response. Analyses included descriptive statistics, which indicated that the operationalized responses were perceived to be effective and socially appropriate. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were also conducted and revealed a number of significant interactions for each status level (manager, colleague, subordinate). The third and final study in this research program adopted a qualitative approach to examine continued pushy or dominating communication in the workplace. Eighty-two (45 female and 37 male) participants completed a qualitative questionnaire utilizing an open-ended approach. This questionnaire was designed for the purpose of the third study to elicit the typical behaviours, emotions and cognitions participants have in response to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. Also, a data analysis process was designed specifically for the third study to provide an analytical procedure that was as systematically rigorous and replicable as possible. This process is explained in detail in Study 3. The results of the third study revealed differences between actual behaviour and rule based behaviour in response to continued pushy behaviour, namely that actual responses are more public and direct in nature, and more likely to promote destructive conflict escalation. This finding implies that typical responses are not as effective as rule based responses, highlighting the benefits of applying social rules to manage difficult face to face communication situations. In summary, the current research project utilized a multi-method approach in a series of three studies to reveal the nature of Social Rules based responses and typical responses. The results of this research program have implications for both the theory and practice of effective communication and effective communication training. Evaluation of both social rules based and typical responses have implications for communication trainees who wish to make informed choice based on a consideration of functionally effective behaviour and personal satisfaction. For example, social rules for escalation in response to continued pushy behaviour from a male manager may indicate that it is most effective for a female subordinate to acquiesce. However, the female subordinate may choose to violate social rules and risk being perceived as inappropriate and damaging the relationship, to achieve a super-ordinate goal or for personal satisfaction. Conversely, the social rules and responses developed in the current research program have implications for professional effectiveness in the workplace by providing guidelines for dealing with dominating behaviour.

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Szuster, Flávia Rechtman. "Uma análise do valor social considerado pelo Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis à luz da teoria tridimensional do direito." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/9810.

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This thesis aimed to identify the social value considered by the Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC) in issuing their pronouncements: getting closer or moving away from the international accounting standards. Accounting is going through a historical moment, marked by the accounting standards´ convergence and by the creation of a universal language. In the process, each country has a framework which can vary from convergence, where countries maintain their regulatory institutions, to endorsement, where an accounting pronouncements´ translation is made. In Brazil, the process is conducted by CPC, composed by six Brazilian private institutions, each representing a different group of economic agents. The CPC issues a statement, which enters into public hearing for at least 30 days. The new version results from the analysis of the suggestions received. We used in the theses Miguel Reale´s Tridimensional Theory of Law, which consists of the standard, fact and value, which are always present and functionally related and dialectic, and suffer interference of power, which determines the positive values, to be preserved, and the negative values, to be banned. The accounting pronouncements related to General Concepts and Disclosure before and after the public hearing were used, as well as the international standard on which the Brazilian statement is based and the suggestions received by the CPC on those accounting pronouncements. The results indicate a strong association between suggestions that intended to get closer to the international standards and acceptance by the CPC. Moreover, the actors involved in the process accept the fact that Brazilian´s pronouncements are getting closer to international standards and begin to understand that changing the international standard is the way of changing the Brazilian pronouncement.
Esta tese teve como objetivo identificar qual o valor social considerado pelo Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC) na emissão de seus pronunciamentos contábeis: aproximação ou distanciamento das normas contábeis brasileiras às internacionais. A contabilidade mundial se encontra em um momento histórico, marcado pelo processo de convergência das normas contábeis e da criação de uma linguagem universal. No processo, cada país tem uma abordagem, que pode variar da convergência, onde os países mantêm suas instituições normativas, ao endosso, onde é efetuada uma tradução dos pronunciamentos contábeis. No Brasil, o processo é conduzido pelo CPC, formado sob a égide de seis instituições privadas brasileiras, cada uma representando um diferente grupo de agentes econômicos. O CPC emite um pronunciamento, que entra em audiência pública por no mínimo 30 dias. A nova versão é resultado da análise das sugestões recebidas. Utilizamos na tese a Teoria Tridimensional do Direito, de Miguel Reale, composta por norma, fato e valor, que estão sempre presentes e correlacionados de maneira funcional e dialética, e sofrem interferência do Poder, que determina quais os valores positivos, a serem preservados, e quais os valores negativos, a serem proibidos. Foram utilizados os pronunciamentos contábeis emitidos pelo CPC no que diz respeito a Conceituação Geral e Evidenciação, antes e depois da audiência pública, a norma internacional em que se baseia o pronunciamento brasileiro e as sugestões recebidas pelo CPC sobre os pronunciamentos contábeis. Os resultados apontam para uma forte associação entre sugestões que tinham como finalidade a aproximação das normas internacionais e a aceitação por parte do CPC. Além disso, os atores envolvidos no processo passam a aceitar a aproximação dos pronunciamentos contábeis brasileiros aos internacionais como realidade e aprenderam que o caminho para modificação de algum ponto do pronunciamento brasileiro é a alteração do pronunciamento do IASB.

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Caddick, David John. "The experiences of former UK military personnel re-entering the civilian world." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2110.

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This thesis focuses on the experiences of former UK military personnel from all three armed services re-entering the civilian workplace. There is a distinct lack of research in this area with only limited studies carried out which tend to focus on the difficult transitions or the actual mechanics of engaging with the civilian labour market. This thesis provides a unique insight into the experiences of military personnel and their journey out of the military environment and into the civilian environment. This study uses a qualitative methodology based upon an interpretive approach to gain insights into the experiences of former military personnel who left the military for a variety of reasons. The study examined the stories of a main research cohorts of 16 individuals and a second cohort of 10 individuals were engaged to further challenge theoretical saturation. The research subjects were selected using a ‘snowball’ approach and selection filtered using a specific set of criteria. Their military experiences span a range of times since discharge and a range of civilian employment since leaving. Following a review of existing literature encompassing career theory, transition theory, narrative analysis and activity theory, open interviews were conducted with participants simply asked to “tell me your story”. The transcripts of the interviews were then analysed using three analytical frames: activity theory, storytelling and perceptions of the self. The participants mainly identified tensions in their relationships with new communities, mediated by the changed social rules and divisions of labour that they encountered in their transition. Those who identified the lowest levels of tension tended to tell their stories in a heroic mode and demonstrated multiple or mixed senses of the self, whilst those who identified the highest tensions tended to tell their stories in a tragic mode and privileged their military identity above their other identities. The data suggests that some of these experience may be connected to the concept of the unquestioned organisation that was expressed by all the research cohort and the unthinking transfer of agency that occurs on joining and leaving the military.

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Dantas, Miguel Calmon Teixeira de Carvalho. "Constitucionalismo dirigente brasileiro e a pós-modernidade:resistência e projeção do estado social enquanto dimensão do estado democrático de direito." Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFBA, 2008. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/10701.

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O presente estudo se dedica a demonstrar que a constituição brasileira de 1988 é dirigente, possuindo normas programáticas que impõem objetivos fundamentais e tarefas ao estado, pertinentes à transformação da realidade com o desiderato de promover a efetividade dos direitos fundamentais, também eles programáticos enquanto mandados de otimização, e a operatividade do estado social, sustentado como dimensão essencial do estado democrático de direito. Procede-se a uma análise desde as origens do constitucionalismo moderno no sentido de caracterizar a prevalência do legislador e a imunização do mercado com relação às constituições, inclusive durante o primeiro ciclo do constitucionalismo social e, no que respeita aos países que tiveram hiatos democráticos, até o restabelecimento da democracia, com a conquista da fórmula direito. Analise-se o caminho das normas programáticas da absoluta ausência de juridicidade até a vinculação positiva e negativa sobre o legislador, detentor apenas de uma liberdade de conformação restrita, cuja omissão deliberada acarreta descumprimento do dever constitucional de legislar, consubstanciando omissão inconstitucional. São realçados os objetivos do estado, que se traduzem nos programas constitucionais, enquanto expressão da auto-projeção do devir comunitário, e a fundamentação jurídico-axiológica do estado social e dos direitos fundamentais nos princípios da solidariedade e da dignidade da pessoa humana, para o qual se encaminha o dirigismo. Ressalta-se que o dirigismo contém uma função de resistência que resguarda a si, ao estado social, aos direitos fundamentais e ao mínimo vital e à própria política em face dos problemas e das contínuas pressões a que são submetidos. Além da resistência, o dirigismo encerra um caráter projetivo de futuro, abrigando utopias jurídicas que conduzem para além do mínimo vital, destinando-se à promoção do máximo existencial. Afirmou-se que a pós-modernidade nada mais é do que o encontro da modernidade consigo mesma, cujos paradigmas sustentados não têm o condão de diluir o dirigismo brasileiro diante do desenvolvimento de uma teoria da constituição dirigente adequada ao texto e ao contexto pátrios, sem que haja qualquer prejuízo à capacidade dirigente e nem que se legitime a transferência da direção política, previamente assentada pela constituição, para outras instâncias. Com a rejeição da tendência ambivalente, flexível e fluida da pós-modernidade sobre o dirigismo, firmou-se a impossibilidade de acolhimento pelas instâncias políticas do ideário e dos postulados neoliberais, contrários à direção e à programaticidade político-constitucional.
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Askervall, Karl. "Talibanerna som organisation : En studie av strukturen på styret av talibanernas organisation 2009." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-2726.

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Sedan attacken på USA 11 september 2001 har åtskilliga rapporter skrivits om Talibanernaför att skapa underlag för styrkorna som bekämpar dem. Syftet med uppsatsen är att försökaåskådliggöra en struktur på styret av talibanernas organisation 2009 och förklara varför dehade denna struktur på styret med utgångspunkt i den religiösa utbildningen. Och i och meddetta bidra till forskningsläget om talibanerna. Frågeställningen som besvaras i uppsatsen är:Vilken struktur hade styret av talibanernas organisation 2009 och varför hade styret dennastruktur? Denna frågeställning löses ut av följande 2 frågor: Fråga 1 - Kan strukturen påstyret av talibanernas organisation 2009 beskrivas med hjälp av en strukturellorganisationsteori? Fråga 2 - Kan den religiösa utbildningen vara en förklaring till dennastruktur på styret?Med hjälp av en strukturell teori om organisationers form och två sociologiska teorier sombehandlar varför människor och grupper handlar som de gör utifrån deras bakgrund ska jagförsöka uppfylla uppsatsens syfte och beskriva hur strukturen på styret av talibanernasorganisation såg ut 2009 och förklara varför den såg ut så.Uppsatsen använder en kvalitativ metod där divisionaliserad organisation, habitus och dendolda läroplanen används som teorier. I den första analysen som svarar på den första frågangörs en fallstudie på ett dokument som beskriver regler och förhållningssätt för talibanernaunder Mullah Omar med hjälp av divisionaliserad organisation. Därefter för att svara påuppsatsens andra fråga analyseras talibanernas habitus utifrån den religiösa utbildningen föratt sedan analyseras med hjälp av Pierre Bourdieus habitusteori och Donald Broadys dendolda läroplanen.Resultatet av analyserna visar att strukturen på styret av talibanernas organisation 2009 tillstor del kan beskrivas med teorin om divisionaliserad organisation och att habitusteorin medstöd av den dolda läroplanen kan ge en förklaring till varför deras styre hade denna struktur2009 utifrån de enskilda individernas religiösa utbildning i södra Afghanistan och Pakistan.
Since the attack on The United States of America September 11 2001 numerous reports hasbeen written about the Taleban to provide information to the forces fighting them. Thepurpose of my thesis is to try to illustrate a structure on the rule of the Taliban organisation2009 and explain why they had this structure on their rule based on religious education. Andby this contribute to the current research about the Taliban. To fulfil this purpose I willanswers the following question in the thesis: What structure did the Taliban have on the ruleof their organisation in 2009 and why did the rule have this structure? This main questionwill be answered through two sub questions: Question 1 – Can the structure of the rule of theTaliban organisation 2009 be described by using a structural theory about organisations?Question 2 – Can the religious education be an explanation to this structure of their rule?With the help of one structural theory about organisations and two sociological theory’sthat concerns why people and groups act the way they do based of their background I will tryto fulfil the purpose of the thesis and describe the structure of the rule of the Talibanorganisation 2009 and explain why the rule had this structure.The thesis uses a qualitative method and divisionaliserad organisation, habitus and thehidden curriculum as theories. In the first analyse that answers to the first question I make acase study on a document that describes rules and regulations for the Taliban’s under MullahOmar using Henry Mintzbergs theory of divisionaliserad organisation. Thereafter to answerthe second question I first analyse the Taliban habitus based on their religious education.Then I continue the analysis using Pierre Bourdieus theory of habitus and Donald Broadysthe hidden curriculum.The result of the two analyses shows that the structure of the rule of the Talibanorganisation 2009 can be described fairly well using the theory of divisionaliseradorganisation. It also shows that the theory of habitus with the support of the hiddencurriculum can give an explanation to why their rule had this structure 2009 based on theindividual’s religious education in southern Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Norfeldt, Henrik, and Jennifer Carlsson. "Komponentavskrivningar : Problematiken för fastighetsbolag." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17881.

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Redovisning är ett ämne under konstant förändring. Som en följd av utvecklingen av internationella redovisningsregler beslutade BFN att det behövdes förändring på det svenska redovisningsområdet. Den 8 juni 2012 fattade BFN beslut om det allmänna rådet (BFNAR 2012:1) om årsredovisning och koncernredovisning med tillhörande vägledning, K3. Reglerna ska tillämpas av onoterade större företag från och med redovisningsår 2014. Regelverket K3 är principbaserat och därmed lämnas det stort utrymme för det professionella omdömet. För företag som kommer tillämpa K3 sker en del stora förändringar. Den kanske största och mest utmanande förändringen är de nya reglerna gällande avskrivningar av materiella anläggningstillgångar då företag måste tillämpa komponentavskrivningar på dessa. För att det ska vara ett krav att särredovisa en komponent måste det enligt K3 finnas väsentlig skillnad i nyttjandeperiod samtidigt som komponenten ska vara betydande. Många fastighetsbolag har ställt sig kritiska till kravet på komponentavskrivning då de ansåg att de ökade kostnader som reglerna medför var högre än den medförda nyttan. Kritik har även riktats mot att det endast utgivits begränsat med vägledning angående hur reglerna ska tolkas.Eftersom K3 är ett nytt regelverk finns det ännu inga studier som visar hur företagen har hanterat problematiken som komponentavskrivningar medför, vilket gör vår studie relevant. Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap gällande hur införandet av komponent-avskrivningar enligt K3 kan hanteras i fastighetsbolag. För att uppfylla syftet och besvara vår problemformulering har vi genomfört semistrukturerade intervjuer på åtta fastighetsbolag som påbörjat eller avslutat övergången till komponentavskrivningar. Studiens resultatet kan tänkas användas som ett diskussionsunderlag för bolag som ännu inte har kommit långt i processen med komponentavskrivningar.Vår studie har bidragit med kunskap gällande hur åtta fastighetsbolag har hanterat problematiken vid tillämpning av komponentavskrivningar enligt K3. Studien visar att valda företag inom fastighetsbranschen påverkats av stora aktörer inom organisationsfältet, vilket har medfört att företagen använt sig av liknande information för att tolka reglerna gällande komponentavskrivningar. Trots det här har företagen tolkat reglerna på olika sätt vilket kan förklaras av att reglerna är principbaserade. I studien framgår att det mest problematiska vid övergången till komponentavskrivningar är hur tillkommande utgifter ska behandlas, samt att reglerna har lett till en ökad arbetsbelastning. För att tolka de principbaserade reglerna har samtliga bolag tagit hjälp av fastighetsförvaltarna. Den ökade arbetsbelastningen har till stor del hanterats internt men i vissa fall har externa konsulter anlitats.
Program: Civilekonomprogrammet

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Christ, Julia. "Jeu et critique. Objet, méthode et théorie de la société dans la philosophie de Th. W. Adorno." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040014.

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Ce travail réinterroge la philosophie sociale critique d’Adorno à partir des concepts de règle et de jeu. Il a pour objectif d’exposer la théorie de la société d’Adorno et d’en questionner les fondements. Ces fondements, telle est notre thèse, peuvent être conceptualisés dans un langage propre à la sociologie de l’action si on les reformule en termes de « règles », de « suivi des règles » et de « jeu » – concepts qu’Adorno lui-même utilise afin de décrire le social, plus précisément la société capitaliste dans laquelle il vivait. Le fameux tout « non-vrai », qu’est la société selon Adorno, peut ainsi être compris comme un jeu réglé par lui-même, indépendamment de l’intentionnalité des acteurs. Cette reformulation de la philoso-phie sociale d’Adorno nous permet de la faire dialoguer avec d’autres conceptions du social (Weber, Ha-bermas, Descombes, Searle et le structuralisme) et de montrer à quel point l’objet d’Adorno diffère de celui de Weber, de Habermas et de Searle alors qu’il est commensurable à celui du structuralisme. La méthode pour saisir cet objet, à savoir les règles non intentionnelles qui structurent le jeu social, est celle de Freud (interprétation, lecture symptômale). Adorno, toutefois, se distingue du structuralisme et aussi de Freud en ce qu’il pense pouvoir établir un lien entre société capitaliste et le social réglé comme un jeu inaccessible aux acteurs : ce jeu est non seulement l’objet de recherche d’Adorno mais aussi l’objet de sa critique. Notre travail s’emploie à étayer la possibilité de cette critique qui ne vise rien de moins que les conditions de possibilité du vivre en commun telles qu’elles ont été établies par la philosophie sociale structuraliste ainsi que par Freud : des règles à effet inconscient qui font en sorte que tous les acteurs ne réalisent ou ne di-sent pas les mêmes significations font l’objet de la critique adornienne. Critiquer ces règles implique de montrer qu’une critique de l’institution verticale des sujets est possible sans détruire ni poser comme abso-lu la subjectivité elle-même. Cette critique devient envisageable à partir du moment où l’on examine la pratique qui est incluse dans le suivi aveugle de la règle : au sein de cette « fausse » pratique – qu’Adorno appelle la pratique d’identification – se dégage une pratique autre qui met en question la soumission aveugle à la règle. Cette pratique critique est également appelée « jeu ». Notre travail se conclut sur l’exposition de cette pratique et de son potentiel critique au sein du jeu qu’est la société capitaliste
This work reexamines the social critical philosophy of Adorno, starting form the concepts of rule and of game. It aims to expose the social theory of Adorno and to question its foundations. These foundations can be conceptualized in a language specific to the sociology of action if they are rephrased in terms of rules, rule-following and game; concepts which Adorno himself uses to describe the social, spe-cifically the capitalist society in which he lived. The famous all "non-true" which society is according to Adorno, can be understood as a game working in itself, regardless of the intentionality of the actors. This rephrasing of the social philosophy of Adorno allows us to dialogue with the other approaches of the social (Weber, Habermas, Descombes, Searle and the structuralism) and to show how the object of Adorno differs from that of Weber, Habermas and Searle, how it is commensurable with that of structuralism. The Method to seize the object, i.e. the rules that structure the unintentional social game, is the method of Freud (interpretation, symptomatic reading). Adorno, however, differs from structuralism and also from Freud’s conception of the social because he thinks that he can establish a link between capitalist society and the social regulated as a game inaccessible to players: for Adorno this game is not only the object of research but also the object of his criticism. Our work goes on to justify the possibility of such criticism that targets nothing less than the conditions of possibility of common living. What was established by structur-alist social philosophy as well as by Freud is the subject of criticism of Adorno: rules whose effects are unconscious, which ensure that all players do not realize or do not say the same meanings. To criticize these rules implies showing that the critique of vertical instituted subjects is possible without destroying subjec-tivity nor positing it as absolute. This criticism becomes possible from the moment you look at the prac-tice included in the blind following of the rule which is the "wrong" practice - Adorno calls this practice of identification ; the right practice included in practice of identification challenges the blind submission to

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Ingham, Sean. "Instrumental Justifications of Popular Rule." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10445.

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Ordinary citizens are rarely charged with making consequential decisions in representative democracies. Almost all consequential decisions are delegated to elected representatives or political appointees. On what basis should we judge whether decisions should be placed in the hands of ordinary citizens or delegated to political elites? I argue that decision-making authority should be allocated in whatever way an assembly of randomly selected citizens would choose, given reasonable beliefs about the consequences of their possible choices. The standard I defend is a variation of the principal-agent model of political representation, in which the people are viewed as a principal and officeholders as their agents. As it is usually formulated, the objectives of the people are deﬁned by the preferences of the majority. I draw on this formulation in chapter 4 to explain why the majority might rationally prefer to delegate authority to a citizens’ assembly instead of an elected legislature and why they might rationally view citizens’ assemblies with distrust, when they are organized and administered by elites. But the standard formulation of the principal-agent model does not provide a coherent standard when the will of the majority is not well-deﬁned. Several chapters on social choice theory explain this problem and why political theorists’ previous responses to it have been unconvincing. In light of this problem, I argue for a revisionary understanding of the principal-agent model, according to which the people and its will are identified not with the preferences of the majority but rather with the decisions of a citizens’ assembly. To motivate this approach I offer a critique of the recent literature on “epistemic democracy,” which describes an alternative form of justification for empowering ordinary citizens. Appeals to expertise and knowledge have historically figured prominently in justifications of political exclusion and hierarchy, but epistemic democrats put them to use in defending participatory forms of democratic politics. Epistemic democrats claim that decision processes in which inexpert, ordinary citizens participate can exhibit greater “collective wisdom” than elite- or expert-dominated decision-making. Chapters 2 and 3 explain why these arguments sit uncomfortably with the nature of disagreements in politics.
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Chaoran, Sun. "Essays in Fair Allocation Rules." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673865.

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Aquesta tesi estudia regles d’assignació justes i els seus problemes associats: què són, com implementar-les i com aplicar-les en entorns econòmics. Al capítol 1, introduïm les reduccions sense valor (v-f), que són operadors que assignen un joc coalicional jugat per un conjunt de jugadors a un altre joc similar que juga un subconjunt d’aquests jugadors. Proposem propietats que les reduccions de VF poden satisfer, proporcionem una teoria de la dualitat per a elles i caracteritzem diverses reduccions de VF (entre les quals la versió sense valor dels jocs reduïts proposada per Hart i Mas-Colell, 1989 i Oishi et al. ., 2016). A diferència dels jocs reduïts, introduïts per caracteritzar els valors en termes de consistència, les reduccions v-f no es defineixen en referència als valors. No obstant això, una reducció de v-f indueix un valor. Caracteritzem les reduccions v-f que indueixen el valor de Shapley, el valor autònom i el valor de Banzhaf. Connectem el nostre enfocament a la teoria de la implementació. Finalment, demostrem que el nostre nou enfocament és una eina útil per proporcionar noves caracteritzacions de valors en termes de consistència, i presentem noves caracteritzacions de Banzhaf i els valors autònoms. Al capítol 2, introduïm dos mecanismes que implementen el valor de Shapley i la plusvàlua igual, respectivament. La característica principal d’ambdós mecanismes és que diversos proponents presenten plans d’assignació simultàniament. La implementació d’un pla requereix tant consens entre els proponents com acceptació dels enquestats. En cas de desacord entre els proponents, fem servir el procediment de licitació introduït per Perez-Castrillo i Wettstein (J. Econ. Theory 100: 274-294, 2001), que facilita la compra d’un propositor a cada ronda. Llavors, la diferència entre dos valors es redueix a la forma en què els proponents negocien amb els enquestats. Al capítol 3, definim la solució ordinal proporcional de Shapley (POSh), un concepte ordinal per a economies d’intercanvi pur en l’esperit del valor de Shapley. La nostra construcció s’inspira en la caracterització del valor Shapley de Hart i Mas-Colell (1989) amb l’ajut d’una funció potencial. El POSh existeix i és únic i és essencialment de valor únic per a una classe d’economies bastant general. Satisfà la racionalitat individual, l’anonimat i propietats similars a les propietats de jugador nul i de jugador nul en jocs d’utilitat transferibles. A més, el POSh és immune a la manipulació dels agents de les seves dotacions inicials: no és manipulable en D i no pateix la paradoxa de la transferència. Finalment, construïm un mecanisme de licitació a Pérez-Castrillo i Wettstein (2006) que implementa el POSh en equilibri perfecte de Nash del subgame per a economies on els agents tenen preferències homotètiques i dotacions positives.
Esta tesis estudia las reglas de asignación justa y sus problemas asociados: qué son, cómo implementarlas y cómo aplicarlas en entornos económicos. En el Capítulo 1, presentamos las reducciones sin valor (v-f), que son operadores que asignan un juego de coalición jugado por un conjunto de jugadores a otro juego similar jugado por un subconjunto de esos jugadores. Proponemos propiedades que las reducciones de vf pueden satisfacer, les proporcionamos una teoría de la dualidad y caracterizamos varias reducciones de vf (entre las que se encuentran la versión libre de valor de los juegos reducidos propuestos por Hart y Mas-Colell, 1989, y Oishi et al. ., 2016). A diferencia de los juegos reducidos, introducidos para caracterizar valores en términos de consistencia, las reducciones v-f no se definen en referencia a valores. Sin embargo, una reducción de v-f induce un valor. Caracterizamos las reducciones de v-f que inducen el valor de Shapley, el valor independiente y el valor de Banzhaf. Conectamos nuestro enfoque a la teoría de la implementación. Finalmente, mostramos que nuestro nuevo enfoque es una herramienta útil para proporcionar nuevas caracterizaciones de valores en términos de consistencia, y presentamos nuevas caracterizaciones del Banzhaf y los valores independientes. En el capítulo 2, presentamos dos mecanismos que implementan el valor de Shapley y la plusvalía igual, respectivamente. La característica principal de ambos mecanismos es que varios proponentes presentan planes de asignación simultáneamente. La implementación de un plan requiere tanto el consenso entre los proponentes como la aceptación de los encuestados. En caso de desacuerdo entre los proponentes, utilizamos el procedimiento de licitación introducido por Pérez-Castrillo y Wettstein (J. Econ. Theory 100: 274-294, 2001), que facilita la compra de un proponente en cada ronda. Entonces, la diferencia entre dos valores se reduce a cómo los proponentes negocian con los encuestados. En el Capítulo 3, definimos la solución proporcional ordinal de Shapley (POSh), un concepto ordinal para economías de cambio puras en el espíritu del valor de Shapley. Nuestra construcción está inspirada en la caracterización de Hart y Mas-Colell (1989) del valor de Shapley con la ayuda de una función potencial. El POSh existe y es único y esencialmente de un solo valor para una clase de economías bastante general. Satisface la racionalidad individual, el anonimato y las propiedades similares a las propiedades de jugador nulo y de jugador nulo en los juegos de utilidad transferibles. Además, el POSh es inmune a la manipulación de los agentes de sus dotaciones iniciales: no es manipulable en D y no sufre la paradoja de la transferencia. Finalmente, construimos un mecanismo de licitación al estilo de Pérez-Castrillo y Wettstein (2006) que implementa el POSh en equilibrio de Nash perfecto en subjuegos para economías donde los agentes tienen preferencias homotéticas y dotaciones positivas.
This thesis studies fair allocation rules and its associated problems: what they are, how to implement them, and how to apply them in economic environments. In Chapter 1, we introduce the value-free (v-f) reductions, which are operators that map a coalitional game played by a set of players to another similar game played by a subset of those players. We propose properties that v-f reductions may satisfy, we provide a theory of duality for them, and we characterize several v-f reductions (among which the value-free version of the reduced games proposed by Hart and Mas-Colell, 1989, and Oishi et al., 2016). Unlike reduced games, introduced to characterize values in terms of consistency, v-f reductions are not defined in reference to values. However, a v-f reduction induces a value. We characterize v-f reductions that induce the Shapley value, the stand-alone value, and the Banzhaf value. We connect our approach to the theory of implementation. Finally, we show that our new approach is a useful tool to provide new characterizations of values in terms of consistency, and we present new characterizations of the Banzhaf and the stand-alone values. In Chapter 2, we introduce two mechanisms that implement the Shapley value and the equal surplus value, respectively. The main feature of both mechanisms is that multiple proposers put forth allocation plans simultaneously. The implementation of a plan requires both consensus among proposers and acceptance of respondents. In case of disagreement among proposers, we use the bidding procedure introduced by Perez-Castrillo and Wettstein (J. Econ. Theory 100: 274-294, 2001), which facilitates a buyout of one proposer in each round. Then the difference between two values comes down to how proposers negotiate with respondents. In Chapter 3, we define the proportional ordinal Shapley (the POSh) solution, an ordinal concept for pure exchange economies in the spirit of the Shapley value. Our construction is inspired by Hart and Mas-Colell’s (1989) characterization of the Shapley value with the aid of a potential function. The POSh exists and is unique and essentially single-valued for a fairly general class of economies. It satisfies individual rationality, anonymity, and properties similar to the null-player and null-player out properties in transferable utility games. Moreover, the POSh is immune to agents’ manipulation of their initial endowments: It is not D-manipulable and does not suffer from the transfer paradox. Finally, we construct a bidding mechanism à la Pérez-Castrillo and Wettstein (2006) that implements the POSh in subgame perfect Nash equilibrium for economies where agents have homothetic preferences and positive endowments.

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Williamson, J. Austin. "Social support, mood, and relationship satisfaction at the trait and social levels." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1932.

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Many social processes influence the amount, quality, and availability of support from an individual's social network. Trait influences are characteristics of the individual that generalize across relationships and affect how much support is received and perceived on average from other people. Social influences comprise characteristics of the individual's social network. They are relationship specific and account for the variability in supportiveness among an individual's providers. Recent studies have taken a multilevel approach to studying social support in order to partition the variance in sets of relationship-specific support measures into trait and social components. These studies have also used multivariate generalizability (G) theory to examine the correlations between social support and other constructs, such as negative mood, at the trait and social level. These multilevel studies have begun to clarify the relative contributions of trait and social influences on social support, but much is yet to be learned about the nature and measurement of social support's trait and social components. One set of aims within this project was to identify characteristics of support recipients and characteristics of support providers that were related to the reception and perception of social support. Another set of aims focused on validating the measurement strategies used by G theory researchers and understanding how the trait and social components of support and mood derived from relationship-specific measures relate to traditional measures of these constructs. My final set of aims involved the application of multilevel analyses of social support and negative mood to three existing theories in the social support literature--the buffering hypothesis, the matching hypothesis, and the platinum rule. The participants in this study comprised two samples--one group of 755 undergraduate psychology students, and one group of 430 community members from across the United States. Participants completed measures of their personality traits, recent depressive symptoms, recent experiences of life adversity and perceived control over life adversity. They also reported on three close relationships including support from those relationships, satisfaction with those relationships, and mood experienced when interacting with those three people. Several multilevel analyses were used in the study. Univariate G theory analyses were used to quantify the relative variance in support, mood, and relationship satisfaction attributable to trait and social influences. Multivariate G theory analyses were used to estimate the links between these variables at the trait and social levels of analysis. Mixed effects models were used to identify trait and relationship-specific constructs that that might partly constitute the trait and social influences on social support. Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to evaluate the validity of several constructs employed in previous multilevel studies on social support. Finally, mixed effects and multivariate G theory analyses were used to test the buffering hypothesis, the matching hypothesis, and the platinum rule. Consistent with previous multilevel studies of social support, recipients who received more support, on average, from their social networks also reported more negative mood when interacting with their providers. After taking those average tendencies into account, the amount of support received from an individual support provider was not associated with negative mood experienced when with that provider. The investigation of the trait influences on social support showed that recipients who were younger, more extraverted, and more open to new experiences tended to receive more social support. Women tended to receive more support than men. With respect to social influences, romantic partners tended to provide the most support whereas friends and siblings provided significantly less support on average. Women tended to provide more support than men. The validity assessment showed that the social component of support availability was only modestly distinct from the social component of generic relationship satisfaction. The trait component of support availability showed good discriminant validity from relationship satisfaction and good convergent validity with global support availability. The trait component of relationship-specific mood showed moderate convergent validity with general mood. The buffering and matching hypotheses were not supported by my findings. The platinum rule was supported at the trait level in that recipients who reported greater support adequacy, on average, tended to report more positive mood and less negative mood. The platinum rule was also supported at the social level in that recipients tended to report experiencing the most positive mood and least negative mood when interacting with individual providers who tended to supply the most adequate support.

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Sternehäll, Tove. "Understanding State Fragility through the Actor-Network Theory: A Case Study of Post-Colonial Sudan." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-57787.

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Despite the broad discourse on fragile states and the threat they pose to the contemporary world order, the literature on the subject does to a large extent ignore the material factors behind the causes of state fragility. Scholars and organizations in the field have almost exclusively adopted the Social Contract Theory (SCT) in order to explain state fragility as a problem caused by social factors. This study broadens the discourse by applying SCT as well as the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) on the case study of Sudan, in order to do a deductive theory testing of the added value of each theory. The results of this study show that while the Social Contract Theory does explain many factors behind state fragility, the application of the Actor-Network Theory adds to this by also incorporating the networks between the social and material determinants in societies. This research contributes to the debate on fragile states by adding to the scarce research on the materiality of fragility through the use of the Actor-Network Theory. The positive results of this thesis encourage future use of this theory in the field as it has the potential to give new insights in how to deal with fragile states.

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Ekdahl, Elin, and Sandra Jansdotter. "Mellan lag och rätt : en rättsvetenskaplig studie av kommunala riktlinjer avseende ekonomiskt bistånd i Stockholms län." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Work, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7418.

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The purpose of this essay was to examine municipal guidelines regarding the administration of the social assistance, collected from 18 municipalities in the Stockholm-area to achieve a greater understanding on how they were constructed in respect to the legislation and how the language mediated their contents. The legal aspects of the social assistance was studied through a jurisprudential method in which the legislative history, texts of laws and case laws were examined. The empirical aspect of this essay was studied through a hermeneutical method and analyzed through theories of social constructionism and legal pluralism. The results from the jurisprudential study were also used to understand how the municipal guidelines were constructed in relation to the law. The results of this essay corresponded well with previous studies in this field where considerable divergences in the approval of social assistance have been established. The guidelines allow a local adjustment of the social work stated in the Social service act, on the basis of local priorities and conditions. Our findings showed that the guidelines related to the law in varying degrees, to some extent depending on the stringency of the language used in them. We found expressions that were sometimes vague, normative and restrictive regarding the approval of social assistance. The results were discussed in respect to rule of law and the legal content of the guidelines.

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Berger, Luiz Marcelo. "Um modelo multiagente para análise da interação dinâmica e estratégica de agentes sociais." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/81399.

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A criação, concepção e produção de normas jurídicas não possuem uma metodologia de análise da sua dinâmica e dos efeitos que projetam no tecido social ao qual são direcionadas, pois a visão clássica das leis está vinculada à sua dimensão coercitiva ou normativa. Um modelo conceitual da dinâmica das instituições a partir dos efeitos provocados nas interações sociais dos agentes representa uma proposta de tratamento sistemático e integrado destes temas. A tese consiste na suposição de que efeitos estratégicos e comportamentais interferem dinamicamente na eficácia institucional dos regulamentos formais propostos para organizar a ação social, devendo, portanto, ser incluídos entre os elementos essenciais na sua concepção, pois representam fonte de incerteza nas interações entre os agentes, não contempladas nas dimensões clássicas de análise. O trabalho é constituído de três partes principais. Na primeira é caracterizado o problema da concepção e produção de normas jurídicas e sua importância e impacto em termos de eficiência, custo social e coordenação das interações sociais. Na segunda parte são revisados os principais referenciais teóricos relacionados ao tema, com ênfase na conexão dinâmica entre o ambiente institucional e o mecanismo de interação social estratégico dos agentes. Na terceira parte são definidos a metodologia e o modelo conceitual da tese com base na relação estabelecida entre os preceitos da economia institucional e da teoria dos jogos. Adicionalmente, introduz-se o conceito de ponto focal da norma jurídica como elemento fundamental de coordenação das estratégias dos agentes na ação social. Com o objetivo de testar a adequação da proposta foi desenvolvido um modelo computacional com base em sistemas multiagentes, consistindo no mecanismo de validação experimental da tese apresentada. Neste sentido, foram realizados experimentos computacionais na direção de comprovar empiricamente a metodologia proposta e a necessidade de englobar aspectos estratégicos e comportamentais na dinâmica das instituições e, portanto, no processo de análise, concepção, estruturação e produção de normas jurídicas.
There is no specific methodology that deals with the process of conceiving and producing legal rules and analyses its effects and dynamics within the social structure they are directed for. A conceptual methodology and a multiagent model represent a systematic and integrated attempt to address the issue. The thesis proposes that strategic and behavioral effects affects institutional dynamics playing an important role in terms of the efficiency of legal commands towards social action, adding extra uncertainty to agents’ interaction. This work is segmented in three main parts. The first one deals with the problem of legal rules conception and production, analyzing its importance and impact in terms of the efficiency, social cost and coordination of social interaction. The second part is a literature review with a special attention to micro-macro dynamics. In the third part the conceptual model of the thesis is formalized, establishing the connection between the theoretical framework of institutional economics, game theory and the law. This chapter introduces the concept of focal point of law as a key element to enable agents’ coordination. A multiagent model has been designed to test the adequacy of the conceptual model as proposed in the thesis. A computational experiment has been performed as an attempt to empirically validate the thesis arguments.

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Atal, Maha Rafi. "When companies rule : corporate political authority in India, Kenya and South Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289776.

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This thesis examines the role of corporations as political authorities, focusing on corporate land acquisition and corporate provision of services and infrastructure. It considers these activities as "Company Rule," a political project to secure corporate control of territory and population, shaping power relations between corporations and the people they govern. The thesis asks what motivates companies to rule, and whether Company Rule can achieve political legitimacy. The thesis makes four main contributions. First, it develops a framework for analysing the political agency of corporations, informed by international relations theory, management science, and economic history, including empirical analysis of three historical cases of Company Rule: the British East India Company, the British South Africa Company, and the New Lanark mill town. Second, the thesis applies the framework to three contemporary case studies: the Reliance oil refinery and township in India, the Del Monte pineapple plantation and estate in Kenya, and the Lonmin platinum mine and surrounding settlements in South Africa. It finds that company actors are motivated by one or more of three key factors: utopian visions of the society their governance can deliver, a desire to counter resistance to business operations from labour, community groups or other stakeholders, and internal bureaucratic power struggles which take governance policies as a site of conflict. Third, the thesis finds that the balance of these motives varies across time and space. The policy context in which companies operate influences the particular ideological motives expressed in Company Rule. In highlighting the significance of policies that postcolonial governments have taken on the regulation of land, the thesis situates Company Rule in wider discussions of the role of territory and the social construction of space in the creation of political authority. Fourth, the thesis finds that any legitimacy Company Rule achieves relies not only on the material quality of company-provided services and infrastructure, but significantly on their normative content. Workers, communities and regulators respond to the ideological motives expressed in company governance, and it is their acceptance or rejection of these motives that determines the legitimacy of Company Rule.

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Holm, Cyril. "F. A. Hayek's Critique of Legislation." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-236890.

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The dissertation concerns F. A. Hayek’s (1899–1992) critique of legislation. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify and assess that critique. I argue that there is in Hayek’s work a critique of legislation that is distinct from his well-known critique of social planning. Further that the main claim of this critique is what I refer to as Hayek’s legislation tenet, namely that legislation that aims to achieve specific aggregate results in complex orders of society will decrease the welfare level. The legislation tenet gains support; (i) from the welfare claim – according to which there is a positive correlation between the utilization of knowledge and the welfare level in society; (ii) from the dispersal of knowledge thesis – according to which the total knowledge of society is dispersed and not available to any one agency; and (iii) from the cultural evolution thesis – according to which evolutionary rules are more favorable to the utilization of knowledge in social cooperation than are legislative rules. More specifically, I argue that these form two lines of argument in support of the legislation tenet. One line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the dispersal of knowledge thesis. I argue that this line of argument is true. The other line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the cultural evolution thesis. I argue that this line of argument is false, mainly because the empirical work of political scientist Elinor Ostrom refutes it. Because the two lines of argument support the legislation tenet independently of each other, I argue that Hayek’s critique of legislation is true. In this dissertation, I further develop a legislative policy tool as based on the welfare claim and Hayek’s conception of coercion. I also consider Hayek’s idea that rules and law are instrumental in forging rational individual action and rational social orders, and turn to review this idea in light of the work of experimental economist Vernon Smith and economic historian Avner Greif. I find that Smith and Greif support this idea of Hayek’s, and I conjecture that it contributes to our understanding of Adam Smith’s notion of the invisible hand: It is rules – not an invisible hand – that prompt subjects to align individual and aggregate rationality in social interaction. Finally, I argue that Hayek’s critique is essentially utilitarian, as it is concerned with the negative welfare consequences of certain forms of legislation. And although it may appear that the dispersal of knowledge thesis will undermine the possibility of carrying out the utilitarian calculus, due to the lack of knowledge of the consequences of one’s actions – and therefore undermine the legislation tenet itself – I argue that the distinction between utilitarianism conceived as a method of deliberation and utilitarianism conceived as a criterion of correctness may be used to save Hayek’s critique from this objection.

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Vural, Ebru. "The Middle East As A Regional Security Complex: Continuities And Changes In Turkish Foreign Policy Under The Jdp Rule." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613208/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims to contribute to the debates on the Justice and Development Party (JDP) era Turkish foreign policy by putting Turkey into the regional security complex theory and examines changes and continuities of Turkey&rsquo
s traditional cautious, relatively &ldquo
passive&rdquo
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relative indifference&rdquo
stance towards the Middle East security complex. Hence, the framework of analysis is the regional security complex theory, attributed roles and role changes of Turkey within regional security complexes. This study, with a historical perspective and within the framework of the regional security complex theory, questions continuities and changes in the JDP period Turkish foreign policy, and comes to the conclusion that in the JDP era, Turkey&rsquo
s role is going beyond the insulator state function to the &ldquo
interface logic&rdquo
which adopts a loose form of geographical boundaries.

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Keller, Franziska Barbara. "Networks of Power. Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Who Will Rule and Who is Really in Charge in an Authoritarian Regime. Theory, Method, and Application on Chinese Communist Elites (1982-2012)." Thesis, New York University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3740801.

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Patronage networks are said to help elites advance into a regime's inner circle or lead to their downfall, as well as influence regime stability and other political outcomes. But researchers have only systematically studied individual patron-client ties instead of taking advantage of the tools provided by social network analysis (SNA). In three related papers, this dissertation evaluates the best method to measure patronage networks, develops a theory of coalition formation along them, and tests it on the members of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee from 1982 until 2012.

The first paper argues that informal politics is better conceptualized through networks than factions, and identifies and evaluates two common approaches to measure such networks: the inductive approach, which relies on a qualitative assessment of insider sources, and the deductive approach, which infers the network from publicly available data. The paper evaluates several commonly used approaches to deduce networks among Chinese political elites. Using methods and concepts developed in Social Network Analysis, it finds that coworker networks perform best in these tests, but can be further refined by noting the number of instances of working together, or by taking into account promotions that have occurred while the two individuals were coworkers.

The second paper develops a model in which one or two leaders form their coalitions along network ties connecting the relevant political elites, the selectorate. Simulations on random networks and real-life patronage networks among Chinese elites illustrate how all but the regular (lattice or complete) network lead to power differentials between the members of the selectorate. The model identifies three specific network positions: those that increase the chances of entering the winning coalition, those that enable coalition leaders to remain in charge of the coalition, and those that help a ruler fend off the opposition. It discusses their respective properties, and shows that powerful Chinese elites do indeed hold the corresponding positions. Furthermore, in a model with two competing leaders the network structure provides an endogenous explanation for winning coalition sizes smaller than the bare majority.

The third paper tests the theory on promotion networks - indicating who has been promoted under whom - among the Chinese Communist elite 1982-2012. A hazard analysis demonstrates that direct connections to patrons double the chance of being appointed to the Politburo. But links to current and former subordinates - unlike those to superiors - among the other elite also have a significant positive effect. Finally, network centrality measures can identify current patrons and predict appointments to the inner circles five or ten years later even if the identity of the patrons is unknown. Future Politburo members are found in network positions that capture popularity as a coalition partner (closeness centrality), while patrons hold network positions from which they can preempt opposition from within their coalition (betweenness centrality).

The dissertation thus shows the importance of analyzing informal elite networks instead of just the ties between one specific leader and his or her followers. It also proposes SNA as a new theoretical and empirical approach to the understudied informal institutions of authoritarian regimes, suggesting a more principled, but also more nuanced way of measuring one such institution: political patronage.

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Kronbauer, Eduardo Lu?s. "Fundamentos das normas extrafiscais : a perspectiva jusnaturalista como alternativa ?s insufici?ncias do juspositivismo e do neoconstitucionalismo." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2018. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7986.

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This study aims to develop a reasoning of tax rules with simulative function under the point of view of the natural law, indicating the natural law theory perspective as the best alternative against to the other existent legal theories standpoint. First, the study presents, in a critical view, the philosophical preconditions of the two doctrines that predominate the actual paradigm: legal positivism and ?neoconstitucionalism?. It demonstrates that these theories are in the opposite extremes and follow incommunicable ways, and both show insufficiencies in its justifications. Therefore, this present research sustains that the preconditions capable of revealing a more efficient and complete reasoning of the inducing tax rules can be find in the theory of natural law. Thereby, the justification presented in this paper stablishes the idea of natural law, basic goods, justice, finalities. Legitimacy and form of law as the elements capable of justify the taxation with simulative function.
O presente trabalho versa sobre a fundamenta??o das normas extrafiscais sob o prisma do direito natural, apontando a perspectiva jusnaturalista como a melhor alternativa em rela??o ?s demais correntes jusfilos?ficas existentes. Na primeira parte, s?o apresentados, de forma cr?tica, os pressupostos das duas correntes que predominam as fundamenta??es presentes no paradigma atual: positivismo jur?dico e neoconstitucionalismo. Demonstra-se que estas teorias caminham em extremos e n?o se comunicam entre si, sendo que ambas apresentam insufici?ncias em suas fundamenta??es. Dessa forma, sustenta-se que os pressupostos capazes de apresentar uma fundamenta??o mais eficiente e completa das normas extrafiscais est?o na teoria do direito natural. A fundamenta??o trazida no trabalho estabelece que os elementos capazes de justificar a tributa??o com finalidade de indu??o de comportamento dos contribuintes, com maior razoabilidade, est?o presentes na ideia de lei natural, bens b?sicos, justi?a, finalidades, legitimidade e forma.

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Dodman, Hilary Frances. "Can PRUs work? : a search for an answer from within a lived experience." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15278.

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This study draws on theories of punishment (Cavadino and Dignan 2007), leadership (West-Burnham 2013), social rules, (Burns and Machado 2014) and resilience (Fredrikson and Branigan 2005) to develop an understanding of Pupil Referral Units (PRUs). PRUs came into being through statute in 1993. They were set up to provide formal educational settings for young people who had been excluded from school. LEAs have responsibility for the education and welfare of all children in their catchment areas, irrespective of which school they attend. If an exclusion occurs, the LEA is obliged to assume responsibility, under section 19(1) of the 1996 Education Act, for the child's education by whatever means seems appropriate to its designated officers. Placement in a Pupil Referral Unit is a course of action they may pursue. This study sets out to discover through a series of narrative interviews conducted within a Key Stage 4 PRU, whether the multiple purposes of the PRU can be achieved, given the issues that present themselves in the isolated setting of the Unit, the resources available and the complex needs of the young people concerned. Fifteen interviews were conducted within a PRU in the academic year 2011-2012. Four were held with the Head; 11 further interviews involved 12 people; 8 members of staff and 4 pupils. A study of the evidence they provided led to a qualified positive response to the research question; i.e. that PRUs can' work' given a number of factors that are listed in the conclusion.

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Fassler, Andreas. "Merging Task-Centered Social Work and Motivational Interviewing in Outpatient Medication Assisted Substance Abuse Treatment: Model Development for Social Work Practice." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1977.

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Sågström, Karin, and Anna Stark. "Misskötsel av sopor : ett utbrett fenomen." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Institutionen för ekonomi, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-10949.

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Selander, Daniella. "Venezuelas demokratiska tillbakagång : En teoriprövande fallstudie om tidsperioden 2005 – 2017." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78010.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine whether Venezuela's democratic decline could be explained by the consolidation theory of Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan. Between the years 2005 – 2017, the organization Freedom House concluded that Venezuela’s political and civil rights declined, resulted in that Freedom House classified Venezuela from “partly free” in 2005 to “not free” in 2017, and several scientists classified Venezuela year 2017 as an autocracy. The method is to apply the consolidation theory and its five arenas (the civil society, the political society, rule of law, state bureaucracy and economic society) in the case Venezuela between the years 2005 – 2017. Each arena contains different qualifications which are all needed for a state to transition from democracy to consolidated democracy. However, in this thesis the aim is to study if the consolidation theory is able to explain a state’s transition from democracy to autocracy. By using material as scientific articles and reports, it is concluded that each arenas’ qualifications have deteriorated between the years 2005 - 2017. Therefore, it is found that the consolidation theory works very well in explaining a state’s transition from democracy to autocracy, which in this case is Venezuela.

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Rizzi, Ester Gammardella. "Democracia e transformações sociais no estado parlamentar: Kirchheimer e a República de Weimar." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2139/tde-24042012-110644/.

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A partir de dezenove textos publicados por Otto Kirchheimer no período final da República de Weimar, o presente trabalho investiga as possibilidades oferecidas por uma forma específica de organização política o Estado Constitucional Parlamentar para a realização da democracia e, ao mesmo tempo, para a promoção de transformações sociais. Amálgama inconstante entre a crítica de Carl Schmitt às instituições liberais e a crítica marxista da sociedade, a obra weimariana de Kirchheimer apresenta uma análise instigante do ordenamento jurídico e da realidade histórica na qual ele está inserido. Constituição, Estado Parlamentar, separação de poderes e a legitimidade de diferentes meios de ação política são alguns dos temas abordados. O trabalho discute, assim, uma importante ruptura teórica na obra de Kirchheimer nesse período: o progressivo reconhecimento de que o direito pode e deve servir como limitador do poder político, garantindo certo conteúdo mínimo de liberdade. Das falhas no funcionamento do Parlamento e das instituições da democracia formal passa a decorrer, para ele, a necessidade de aperfeiçoá-los e não mais de rejeitá-los.
Based on nineteen texts written by Otto Kirchheimer during the final period of the Weimar Republic, the present work wishes to investigate the possibilities opened by a specific form of political organization the Parliamentary Constitutional State for the implementation of democracy and, at the same time, for the promotion of social change. Shifting combination of Carl Schmitt criticism of liberal institutions and Marxist criticism of society, the weimarian work of Kirchheimer offers a compelling analysis of the legal system and the historical reality in which it inheres. Constitution, Parliamentary State, separation of powers, and the legitimacy of different ways of political actions are some of his main themes. We detect, then, an important cleavage appearing in the writings of Kirchheimer during this period: his progressive conscience that the legal system can and should serve as a counterweight to political power, in order to guarantee a minimum of liberties. From the deficiencies detected in the working of Parliament and, more generally, of democratic institutions, he now arrives at the necessity of enhancing them not anymore of rejecting them.

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Branco, Marsal Avila Alves. "Jogos Digitais - Teoria e Conceitos para uma Mídia Indisciplinada." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2011. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4611.

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Propõe uma teoria dos jogos digitais. Para tanto, apresenta uma estrutura de análise que divide os jogos em três instâncias - produção, interpretação e discurso -, e três dimensões que as atravessam - lógica, estética e tecnológica. As instâncias permitem pensar os games como produtos de comunicação e portanto afetados por lógicas sociais, políticas, econômicas, estéticas e tecnológicas, servindo como ponto de entrada dos fatos do mundo ‘externo’ dentro da produção, do discurso e do jogar games. As dimensões dão conta das formas pelas quais esta produção, discurso e fruição acontecem e dizem respeito às especificidades internas da linguagem dos games. Para estas, são propostos conceitos como ludemas/sistema de regras, vivacidade/interatividade, manifestações discursivas e estruturas discursivas. A estrutura em dois níveis (instâncias e dimensões) permite lidar com os fenômenos desta mídia tanto a partir de suas afetações internas - lógica, estética e tecnologia tensionando-se e modificando-se -, bem como em um nível mais geral ao evidenciar como cada dimensão é também uma resposta às forças externas que partem de um contexto sócio-cultural. A construção dessa estrutura conceitual permite o desenho de uma teoria dos jogos digitais: mostra seus conceitos fundamentais, seus modos de relacionamento internos, suas conexões com o mundo externo e modos de funcionamento.
Proposes a theory of digital games. To do so, presents an analysis framework that divides games into three instances - production, interpretation and discourse - and the three dimensions - logical, aesthetic and technological. Instances allow us to think the games as communication products and therefore affected by social, political, economic, aesthetic and technological aspects, serving as the entry point of the facts of the world 'outside' into production, speech and play games. The dimensions concern on the diferent manners how this production, speech and enjoyment happen and relate to specific internal language of games. For these are proposed the concepts of Ludema / system rules, vividness / interactive, discursive structures and discursive manifestations. The two level structure (instances and dimensions) allows you to tackle the phenomenon of media either from its internal affectations - logic, aesthetics and technology tensing up and modifying - as well as a more general level by showing how each dimension is also a response to external forces departing from a socio-cultural context. The construction of this conceptual framework allows the design of a digital game theory, shows its fundamental concepts, their modes of internal relations, its connections with the outside world and modes of operation.

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Ludwig, Gundula. "Feministische Staatstheorie." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220680.

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Feministische Staatstheorie analysiert den Staat in seinen vergeschlechtlichten und vergeschlechtlichenden Dimensionen. Konzepte des Kanons der Politikwissenschaft (wie Gesellschaftsvertrag, Staatsbürgerschaft, Recht, Gewalt) werden erweitert, indem deren Vergeschlechtlichung sichtbar gemacht wird. Ebenso werden neue Konzepte wie bspw. Maskulinismus, Privatheit, Reproduktions- und Verwandtschaftspolitiken in die Staatstheorie aufgenommen, um staatliche Machtausübung umfassend theoretisieren zu können.

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Lima, Júnior André Luiz Silveira De. "A institucionalização da justiça na sociedade bem-ordenada: Construtivismo constitucional, razão pública e legitimidade democrática." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2017. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/6316.

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O presente trabalho tem como temática principal a questão da justiça. Ela, estipulada por meio da retomada de princípios fundamentais, mostra que direcionamentos da formação e manutenção da sociedade foram feitos com o devido assentamento de seus termos, uma vez que a estrutura originária social deve ratificar os critérios de ratificação do justo. Diante da vinculação ocidental a uma tradição concatenada no contrato social, especificamente sob a égide do liberalismo, buscou-se, no decorrer da pesquisa, a retomada dos elementos genealógicos do Estado Moderno a partir da interligação entre os valores da liberdade e da igualdade. Todavia, é bem verdade que a história demonstrou que esse paradigma, apesar de toda a expectativa na crença de se encontrar as respostas pelo método científico, não apenas se mostrara incapaz de superar as desigualdades materiais existentes entre os seres humanos, como também legitimara, na confiança irrestrita na legalidade, atos de desumanidades conformadores de uma “estética da destruição”. A retomada pelos termos dos direitos humanos, feito a partir de meados do Século XX, permitiu um retorno da moral aos elementos institucionais de cooperação social, concatenados mediante a criação de um órgão supranacional, responsável por formatar uma federação internacional e, por conseguinte, estabelecer acordos para a sublimação da dignidade. Não obstante, permanecia em voga a soberania nacional, agora, por sua vez, feita com bases constitucionais. Ainda faltava, porém, uma teoria que conseguisse mediar o Estado Democrático de Direito com esse redimensionamento epistemológico, sobretudo quando se tem em voga um pluralismo latente, reverberado pela aproximação de culturas diferentes através da globalização. Qual seria a melhor maneira de se permitir que os indivíduos possam (re)existir, mantendo a sua autonomia ao mesmo tempo em que compartilham o mesmo horizonte dentro de uma sociedade? A hipótese, confirmada na conclusão, é a de que o modelo do liberalismo político proposto por John Rawls, estruturado a partir da justiça como equidade, propicia as bases para a concatenação de uma democracia deliberativa, embora possua lacunas a serem aperfeiçoadas, é o mais próximo de resolver respostas concretas à problemática proposta. Isso porque busca beneficiar a todos, tornando-se racional, dentro de uma decisão racional, optar pela racionalização da justiça, mediante o respeito aos termos da razão pública, na medida em que, assim, permite-se a existência das mais diversas doutrinas abrangentes.
The main theme of this paper is the question of Justice, established through a resumption of fundamental principles, shows that the directions of the formation and maintenance of society were made with the settlement of their terms by the criteria of ratification of the righteous. In view of Western tradiction, which is linked to the social contract specifically under the aegis of liberalism, the search for a resurgence of the genealogical elements of Modern State was sought from the interconnection between the values of freedom and equality. However, it is quite true that history has shown that this paradigm, despite all the expectation in the belief of answers proposed by scientific methods, not only proved be incapable of overcoming the material inequalities, but also legitimized, in the unrestricted trust in legality, acts of inhumanity that conform an “aesthetics of destruction”. The resumption of the human rights paradigm, after mid-twentieth century, allowed a return of morality to institutional elements of social cooperation, linked by a creation of a supranational system, responsible for the formation of an international federation seeking for the sublimation of dignity. Nonetheless, national sovereignty remained in vogue, but with constitutional foundations. But, even at this point, was still lacking of a theory that could mediate the Democratic Rule of Law with the new epistemological resizing, especially when there is a latent pluralism, reverberate by the approximation of different cultures in globalization. What would be the best way to allow individuals to “(re)ex(s)ist”, while maintaining their autonomy when sharing the same horizon within other members of society? The hypothesis, confirmed in the conclusion, is that the model of political liberalism, proposed by John Rawls and structured from justice as fairness, in which the liberal principles (of the maximum individual freedom and of the difference) provide the bases for the concatenation of a deliberative democracy, although it has gaps to be improved, is the closest to solving the problem by concrete answers. This is because it seeks to benefit all members, making their terms rational in a decision which opt out to make a rationalization of justice terms and also respecting the public reason allowing the existence of the most diverse doctrines.

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Cavalcanti, Neto Antonio de Moura. "A aplicação da teoria do fato consumado às tutelas sumárias concedidas contra o Poder Público." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6971.

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This paper aims to discuss mainly the legality of the theory of the accomplished fact. The jurisprudence always refers to such theory as an exceptional circumstance, but it is not enough to close the debate regarding the issue. On the contrary, it is important to stress that the exceptional being has nothing to do with being legal. This argument has been only used in lawsuits filed against Public authorities, which demonstrates that, in cases where the public authority is not the defendant, there would be no accomplished fact. This conception indicates clearly that the legal institutions that permeate the debate about accomplished fact have been inserted in the context of liquid modernity , in which the rigid rules of behavior give way to personal desires of each agent. The problem is more serious when the debate involves decisions issued by the Judiciary, once, in a democratic State, such decisions cannot prevail on the Legislative Power s expressions. Concerning the issue subject of this paper, the manifestations of the Legislative Power are clear and fruitful: regulate the summary injunction with depth as well as the juridical fact. If the current jurisprudence has a penchant for removal of these concepts clearly defined in the name of principles, there is no way to note something about the accomplished fact without making a foray brief about the theory of principles discussed in the works of Humberto Avila, Marcelo Neves, Robert Alexy and Ronald Dworkin. If this is essential, so is the definition of what is an accomplished fact, that is and how the natural, physical or social events are held in the legal world without any normative implications (chronological time, the practice of acts during the term the summary trust, good faith in the action of the measure applicant and so forth). After this time, the argument of the accomplished fact has to be compared with the corresponding assumptions and with those established by the jurisprudence itself, in an analytical study to allow, with some confidence, understand what effectively it comes and keeps compatibility with the juridical discourses rationality. Based on the analysis made in this paper, it is allowed a clear conclusion towards the lack of legality of the theory the accomplished fact, which it should not be relied upon in the litigations against the Public authorities for suffering from lack of normative justification and democratic argument. It is an argument of authority, subjective and uncontrollable that, without a critical perspective, can preserve the legal system situations that are remarkably strange
Questionar a juridicidade da teoria do fato consumado é o grande objetivo do presente trabalho. A referência sempre viva na jurisprudência de que se trata de situação excepcionalíssima não basta para fechar a discussão. Muito pelo contrário, o ser excepcional não tem nada a ver com ser jurídico. Esse argumento é utilizado unicamente em demandas contra o Poder Público, demonstrando que, se não fosse ele o demandado, não haveria fato consumado. Isso demonstra com clareza que os institutos jurídicos que permeiam o debate foram inseridos em um contexto de modernidade líquida, em que as rígidas regras de conduta cedem lugar aos desejos pessoais de cada agente. O problema é mais grave, entretanto, quando estão em discussão decisões do Poder Judiciário, que em um Estado Democrático de Direito, em regra, não podem anular as expressões do Poder Legislativo. Na temática, as manifestações do Legislativo são claras e férteis: regulam as tutelas sumárias com profundidade, bem como o fato jurídico. Se a jurisprudência tem se inclinado pelo afastamento desses conceitos tão bem definidos em nome de princípios, não há como constatar algo a respeito do fato consumado sem fazer uma breve incursão na teoria dos princípios, a partir das obras de Humberto Ávila, Marcelo Neves, Robert Alexy e Ronald Dworkin. Se isso é indispensável, também é a definição do que é o fato consumado, em que consiste e como os fatos naturais, físicos ou sociais são mantidos no mundo jurídico sem qualquer incidência normativa (o tempo cronológico, a prática de atos durante a vigência da tutela sumária, a boa-fé na ação do requerente da medida etc). Após esse momento, o argumento do fato consumado precisa ser cotejado com as premissas fixadas e com aquelas estabelecidas pela própria jurisprudência, em um estudo analítico que permita, com alguma segurança, compreender do que efetivamente se trata e se guarda compatibilidade com a racionalidade do discurso jurídico. Feita essa análise, é permitida uma conclusão clara no sentido da carência de juridicidade da teoria do fato consumado, que não deve ser invocada nas lides contra o Poder Público por padecer de falta de justificação normativa e argumentação democrática. É argumento de autoridade, subjetivo e incontrolável que, sem uma perspectiva crítica, pode preservar no sistema jurídico situações que lhe são notavelmente estranhas

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Teixeira, Denilson Victor Machado. "Teoria do reexame compulsório do provimento jurisdicional sob o viés de uma Filosofia do Direito Processual e à égide do Estado de Direito Democrático." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6370.

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The mandatory degree of jurisdiction, derived from the Lusitanian right (mid-fourteenth century), under the influence of the inquisitorial process, emerged as a Brazilian legal institute of the Civil Procedure, within the article 90 of the Law of October 4, 1831, establishing it as an appeal (ex officio appeal), so that the magistrate interposed it from his own judgment against the National Treasury. So, ontologically, the mandatory double degree of jurisdiction must exist due to the Public Administration, despite the purpose is the collective defense of the public interest (not state). Currently, due to changes determined by the Federal Statutory Law n. 10.352, of December 26, 2001, the current article 475 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides the submission to the double jurisdiction, producing no effect until confirmed by the court after the judgment against the Union, Member States, the Federal District, the Municipalities, and respective agencies and foundations governed by the Public Law. Moreover, it is conceptualized as a condition of providing compulsory rejudgement to the the first instance by the higher order to produce its legal and juridical effects definitively as soon occurs the res judicata of decisum. In foreign legislation such institute is applied in few countries of Hispanic America, under the name of consultation. Under the aspect of Legal Sociology, the mandatory double degree of jurisdiction is effective, because the rule of law (art. 475 of the Code of Civil Procedure) is being fulfilled by their recipients. However, the necessary remittance is characterized as a procedural privilege, and analyzed from the standpoint of constitutional equality (art. 5, caput, first part, and inc. XXXVII, CRFB/1988) generates an apparent antinomy of legal norms, in such a way that applied hierarchical criterion, and, consequently, it turns invalid alluded art. 475 of the Code of Civil Procedure, well known as an unconstitutional Democratic Rule of Law. Concerning Legal Philosophy, adding up the value of justice to the equality, by the way, in obedience to the constitutional preamble parental 1988, it is clear that the mandatory jurisdiction is unfair because, in strictly procedural context, the parts must obtain isonomic treatment by State Judge, by impartial nature. Therefore, it becomes stale that the State Administration may not enjoy such a privileged position in the procedural field, even as it is properly harnessed legal and institutionally, and on the other hand, the born defender of the collective interest is the Prosecutor, as it is adduced in the art. 127, caput, CRFB/1988, where it is pondered the Ministerial participation to resolve the dispute. Anyway, in our times, the Civil Procedure must be grounded in effectiveness (art. 5, inc . LXXVIII, CRFB/1988) and equality, while this as instrumental justice (value), and in order to congratulate the procedural good faith
O duplo grau de jurisdição obrigatório, oriundo do direito lusitano (meados do século XIV), sob a influência do processo inquisitório, surgiu no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro como instituto do processo civil, por força do art. 90, de Lei de 4 de outubro de 1831, instituindo-o como recurso (apelação ex officio), de tal modo que o magistrado interpunha-o de sua própria sentença proferida contra a Fazenda Nacional. Então, ontologicamente, o duplo grau de jurisdição obrigatório existe em razão da Administração Pública, não obstante a finalidade ser a defesa do interesse público coletivo (e não estatal). Atualmente, em alteração determinada pela Lei Ordinária Federal n. 10.352, de 26 de dezembro de 2001, o vigente art. 475 do Código de Processo Civil, por regra, prevê a sujeição ao duplo grau de jurisdição, não produzindo efeito senão depois de confirmada pelo tribunal, a sentença proferida contra a União, os Estados-Membros, o Distrito Federal, os Municípios, e as respectivas autarquias e fundações de direito público. Ademais, conceitua-se o duplo grau de jurisdição obrigatório como sendo a condição de rejulgamento compulsório do provimento jurisdicional prolatado em primeira instância pela superior, visando à produção de seus jurídicos e legais efeitos em caráter definitivo, tão logo ocorra o trânsito em julgado do decisum. Na legislação estrangeira, tal instituto é aplicável em poucos países da América hispânica, sob a denominação de consulta. Sob o viés da Sociologia Jurídica, o duplo grau de jurisdição obrigatório é eficaz, porquanto a norma jurídica (art. 475 do Código de Processo Civil) está sendo cumprida por seus destinatários. Entretanto, a remessa necessária caracteriza-se como privilégio processual, e, analisada sob o enfoque constitucional da isonomia (art. 5º, caput, primeira parte, e inc. XXXVII, da CRFB/1988), gera uma antinomia aparente de normas jurídicas, de tal sorte que aplicável o critério hierárquico, e, por via de consequência, torna-se inválido o aludido art. 475 do Código de Processo Civil, sabidamente inconstitucional no Estado de Direito Democrático. Concernente à Filosofia Jurídica, agregando-se o valor justiça ao da igualdade, aliás, em obediência ao preâmbulo constitucional pátrio de 1988, percebe-se que o duplo grau de jurisdição obrigatório é injusto, porquanto, estritamente no contexto processual, as partes devem obter tratamento isonômico pelo Estado-Juiz, por natureza imparcial. Logo, torna-se cediço que o Estado-Administração não pode usufruir de tal condição privilegiada no campo processual, até mesmo porque está adequadamente aparelhado jurídico-institucionalmente, e, por outro lado, o defensor nato do interesse coletivo é o Ministério Público, conforme aduz o art. 127, caput, da CRFB/1988, caso em que se pondera a participação ministerial para solucionar a controvérsia. Enfim, hodiernamente, o processo civil deve estar pautado na efetividade (art. 5º, inc. LXXVIII, da CRFB/1988) e na igualdade, esta enquanto instrumental da justiça (valor), e de modo a congratular a boa-fé processual

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Walsh, Tamara. "Overruling the underclass? : homelessness and the Law in Queensland." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16161/1/Tamara_Walsh_Thesis.pdf.

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The impact of the law on the lives of homeless people in Queensland has, to date, remained largely unexplored by legal academics and researchers. This is despite the fact that homeless people experience a number of legal difficulties that seriously affect their lives. This thesis by published papers aims to make a significant and original contribution to filling this gap in the research evidence by presenting the results of analyses of the legal, theoretical and practical issues that arise in the context of homeless persons' interactions with the legal system in Queensland. Most notably, it is comprised of three pieces of empirical research which identify those areas of law that impact most on homeless people in Queensland and explore the consequences of the operation of these laws on their lives. In sum, this thesis examines the extent of the law's influence on the lives of homeless people in Queensland, and finds that the consequences of the law's operation on homeless people in Queensland are serious. The thesis first examines the effect on Queensland's homeless people of laws which regulate behaviour conducted in public space. The criminal offences of vagrancy, begging and public nuisance are analysed; their historical origins, the reasons for their retention on modern statute books, and arguments in favour of their repeal are discussed. The impact of 'public space law' on homeless people in Queensland is also explored through a survey of 30 homeless people residing in inner-city Brisbane. This part of the thesis concludes that public space law in Queensland results in breaches of homeless persons' human rights, as well as the contravention of rule of law principles. The thesis then explores the impact of the law on homeless persons' experiences of citizenship. Empirical research and theoretical analysis demonstrate that the application of various laws, particularly public space laws, social security laws and electoral laws, encroaches on homeless persons' citizenship rights. The thesis then reports on the results of a unique survey of Queensland's homelessness service providers. This survey is the most extensive piece of empirical research ever conducted on the extent to which various laws impact on homeless people. Respondents were asked to indicate which areas of law impact most adversely on their homeless clients. Based on the research findings outlined above, the hypothesis was that criminal law issues, particularly public space offences, would be proven to impact particularly adversely on homeless people in Queensland. Somewhat unexpectedly, the findings of the survey indicated that fines law, debt law and family law difficulties are those legal difficulties most often encountered by homeless people in Queensland. Difficulties produced by criminal laws, social security laws and electoral laws, while still generally relevant, rated less highly. However, the survey did demonstrate that experiences differ between sub-groups within the homeless population, for example Indigenous homeless people were reported to be most affected by criminal law issues, while young homeless people were reported to be most affected by social security law issues. Together, the five papers which comprise this thesis make an original and substantial contribution to knowledge by identifying empirically for the first time the various laws that have a significant impact on the lives of homeless people in Queensland, and analysing the consequences of this in terms of their effect on homeless persons' citizenship rights, human rights and rule of law entitlements.

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Walsh, Tamara. "Overruling the Underclass? Homelessness and the Law in Queensland." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16161/.

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The impact of the law on the lives of homeless people in Queensland has, to date, remained largely unexplored by legal academics and researchers. This is despite the fact that homeless people experience a number of legal difficulties that seriously affect their lives. This thesis by published papers aims to make a significant and original contribution to filling this gap in the research evidence by presenting the results of analyses of the legal, theoretical and practical issues that arise in the context of homeless persons' interactions with the legal system in Queensland. Most notably, it is comprised of three pieces of empirical research which identify those areas of law that impact most on homeless people in Queensland and explore the consequences of the operation of these laws on their lives. In sum, this thesis examines the extent of the law's influence on the lives of homeless people in Queensland, and finds that the consequences of the law's operation on homeless people in Queensland are serious. The thesis first examines the effect on Queensland's homeless people of laws which regulate behaviour conducted in public space. The criminal offences of vagrancy, begging and public nuisance are analysed; their historical origins, the reasons for their retention on modern statute books, and arguments in favour of their repeal are discussed. The impact of 'public space law' on homeless people in Queensland is also explored through a survey of 30 homeless people residing in inner-city Brisbane. This part of the thesis concludes that public space law in Queensland results in breaches of homeless persons' human rights, as well as the contravention of rule of law principles. The thesis then explores the impact of the law on homeless persons' experiences of citizenship. Empirical research and theoretical analysis demonstrate that the application of various laws, particularly public space laws, social security laws and electoral laws, encroaches on homeless persons' citizenship rights. The thesis then reports on the results of a unique survey of Queensland's homelessness service providers. This survey is the most extensive piece of empirical research ever conducted on the extent to which various laws impact on homeless people. Respondents were asked to indicate which areas of law impact most adversely on their homeless clients. Based on the research findings outlined above, the hypothesis was that criminal law issues, particularly public space offences, would be proven to impact particularly adversely on homeless people in Queensland. Somewhat unexpectedly, the findings of the survey indicated that fines law, debt law and family law difficulties are those legal difficulties most often encountered by homeless people in Queensland. Difficulties produced by criminal laws, social security laws and electoral laws, while still generally relevant, rated less highly. However, the survey did demonstrate that experiences differ between sub-groups within the homeless population, for example Indigenous homeless people were reported to be most affected by criminal law issues, while young homeless people were reported to be most affected by social security law issues. Together, the five papers which comprise this thesis make an original and substantial contribution to knowledge by identifying empirically for the first time the various laws that have a significant impact on the lives of homeless people in Queensland, and analysing the consequences of this in terms of their effect on homeless persons' citizenship rights, human rights and rule of law entitlements.

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Morais, Valério Pimenta de. "Decisão judicial e sua influência sobre a Legislação Tributária Paulista: uma perspectiva neopositivista." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6214.

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This essay analyses the influence of judicial decisions over São Paulo s tax law, taking as reference the moment of taxation by Public Administration, notedly the moment of tax assessment and its revision, which are markedly positivist, over all when taking into consideration the interpretation of the articles 142 and 149 of Brazilian Tax Code. The neopositivist premise has guided the development of the present essay, since its features have always been present at the analysis promoted, which can be reduced to an idea of complementarity, not only the activities of the government (Legislative, Executive and Judiciary), but also of a philosophical currents of Law. Note that the present analysis focus on Brazilian Federal Constitution, mainly on its principles, which join amplified by the multiplicity of interpreters, bringing semantic fill to the equation that assumes that rule of law is the result of interaction between law (work of Legislative and Executive, acting on its sanction and initiative), interpretation (a result of multiple social actors), and, finally, case law (deriving from the action of Judiciary). In this respect, this essay also examines the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann, that, considering the concept of legal system adopted, served as a support for the analysis of the position occupied by Executive, Legislative and Judiciary relatively to the same system, as well as the analysis of the principles and of the philosophical currents of law and the taxation, conceiving, as a result, the rule of law (which derives from the interaction of the elements which were mentioned above, within the neopositivist idea) and the new role played by case law as a source of law, made possible by the performance of the ideal model of a judge as a guardian-judge. In this context, in response to the questions thrown during the formulation of the introduction of this essay, we apprehend that judgments irradiate normativity, through individual and concrete rule up to general and abstract rule, either through compliance with regulatory expectations contrary to facts or even in case of objectification of judicial proceedings, being responsible for enough irritation that, over all taken into consideration, stimulate legislators create new laws. Thus, the approach between ethics and law, originally built by judicial decisions, tend to pervade the entire the legal system, also serving as a base for taxation moments as well as the moments before taxation, which begin to reproduce the aforementioned approach, representing a final translation of the principles of legal certainty and of equality
Esta dissertação tem por finalidade o estudo da influência das decisões judiciais sobre a legislação tributária paulista, tomando como referência o momento exacional de atuação da sua Administração Tributária, notadamente com o lançamento de ofício e sua revisão, que são tidos como marcadamente positivistas, sobretudo ao se levar em consideração a interpretação do Código Tributário Nacional, em seus artigos 142 e 149. A premissa neopositivista - diga-se de plano - norteou o desenvolvimento do trabalho, uma vez que suas características sempre estiveram presentes na análise que foi promovida, podendo mesmo ser reduzida a uma ideia de complementaridade, não só das atividades dos Poderes de Estado, mas, antes mesmo, das correntes filosóficas do direito. Neste passo, suas notas essenciais, tomadas em consideração, estabeleceram-se pela ambientação na Constituição da República de 1988, com pauta em forte medida principiológica, que, por sua vez, ingressa amplificada pela multiplicidade dos intérpretes, trazendo preenchimento semântico à equação concebida de que a norma jurídica é encontrada como o resultado da interação entre lei (obra dos Poderes Legislativo e Executivo, ao atuar na sua sanção e iniciativa), interpretação (resultado de multíplices atores sociais), e, por fim, jurisprudência (decorrente da atuação do Poder Judiciário). Nessa medida, foi também objeto de nossa investigação a consideração da teoria dos sistemas de Niklas Luhmann, que serviu de suporte para a apreciação, segundo a concepção de sistema jurídico adotada, da posição ocupada pelos Poderes Executivo, Legislativo e Judiciário em relação ao mesmo sistema, a par da apreciação formulada, ainda, da principiologia e das correntes filosóficas do direito e da tributação, concebendo-se, assim, em decorrência, a norma jurídica (resultado da interação dos elementos, antes apontados, fundamentadas no neopositivismo) e no novo papel assumido pela jurisprudência como fonte do direito, viabilizado pela atuação do modelo típico-ideal de juiz, na forma do juiz-guardião. Nesse contexto, com base no quanto se sacou das análises empreendidas ao longo do presente trabalho, em resposta às indagações lançadas durante a formulação da introdução deste, apreendemos que as decisões judiciais irradiam normatividade, num caminho de norma individual e concreta até a geral e abstrata, seja por meio do cumprimento de expectativas normativas contrafáticas, seja mesmo no caso da objetivação das lides submetidas ao Poder Judiciário, sendo responsáveis pela irritação suficiente para que, sobretudo dentro da consideração empreendida, o legislador estadual ou distrital, produza o novo direito positivado. A aproximação efetuada entre a ética e o direito, dessa forma, construída, originariamente, pelas decisões judiciais do Poder Judiciário, tende a perpassar todo o sistema jurídico, servindo de base, ainda, para os momentos pré-exacionais e exacionais, que passam também a reproduzir, de sua parte, esta mencionada aproximação, representando uma tradução final dos princípios da segurança jurídica e da isonomia

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Bushatsky, Daniel. "O princípio da segurança negocial no direito societário." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/7047.

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This doctoral thesis presents the principle of negotiating security, relating it to corporate law. For such, the principles of rules are differentiated, exposing the basic principles of corporate law, emphasizing that it is due to private autonomy that the partners subject themselves to the will of the majority in corporate resolutions, just as decisions made should follow the interests of the corporation. After this, the principle of negotiating security was conceptualized, which is sustained over 4 (four) pillars: objective good faith (loyalty), confidence theory, principle of correction (inspired by the Italian law) and private autonomy. It was asserted that loyalty, reliability, correction and subjective and objective autonomy jointly studied provide the base value for the interpretation of the Law and Legal Affairs, bringing security to corporate relations, within the legal framework of trade, creating the standard of behavior expected from all those involved in trade. By combining the principle of negotiating security with the principle of corporate preservation, it can be demonstrated how conflicts of interest involving the company, partners and administrators should be resolved. Following, first an overview of business risk and the multiple facets of justice, then a review on the legal protection of private investment, arriving at the conclusion that it must comply with its corporate function, in order to expose the main aspects of the business corporation. In order to prove the understanding, doctrinal passages were presented, recent decisions of the Brazilian courts on corporate law were analyzed, as well as how theoretical examples were used as illustration. Finally, the paper emphasizes that the principle of negotiating security must be applied in corporate law, protecting society, partners, administrators, and, thus, helping both the economic and the social development
Na presente tese de doutorado apresenta-se o princípio da segurança negocial relacionando-o com o direito societário. Para tanto, diferenciam-se os princípios das regras, expondo, depois, os princípios basilares do direito societário, destacando que é graças à autonomia privada que os sócios se sujeitam à vontade da maioria nas deliberações sociais, assim como as tomadas de decisões devem seguir o interesse da sociedade. Após, conceituou-se o princípio da segurança negocial sustentando-o em 4 (quatro) pilares: boa-fé objetiva (lealdade), teoria da confiança, princípio da correção (inspirado no direito italiano) e autonomia privada. Asseverou-se que lealdade, confiança, correção e a autonomia subjetiva e objetiva estudadas conjuntamente trazem o valor base para a interpretação da Lei e dos negócios jurídicos, trazendo segurança às relações sociais, dentro do regime jurídico comercial, criando o padrão de comportamento esperado de todos os envolvidos no comércio. Conjugando o princípio da segurança negocial com o princípio da preservação da empresa, demonstrou-se como os conflitos de interesses envolvendo sociedade, sócios e administradores devem ser resolvidos. Seguiu-se, primeiro com uma visão geral sobre o risco empresarial e as múltiplas facetas sobre justiça, depois realizando uma crítica sobre a proteção jurídica ao investimento privado, concluindo que este deve cumprir sua função social, para assim expor os principais aspectos da sociedade empresária. Para provar o entendimento, trouxeram-se passagens doutrinárias, analisaram-se recentes decisões dos tribunais brasileiros sobre direito societário assim como se utilizaram exemplos teóricos como ilustração. Por fim, ressaltamos que o princípio da segurança negocial deve ser aplicado no direito societário, protegendo sociedade, sócios, administradores, e, ajudando, consequentemente, no desenvolvimento econômico e social

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Leclercq, Sidney. "Resilience of Fragility: International Statebuilding Subversion at the Intersection of Politics and Technicality." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/258442.

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For the past two decades, statebuilding has been the object of a growing attention from practitioners and scholars alike. ‘International statebuilding’, as its dominant approach or model guiding the practices of national and international actors, has sparked numerous discussions and debates, mostly around its effectiveness (i.e. if it works) and deficiencies (i.e. why it often fails). Surprisingly, little efforts have been made to investigate what international statebuilding, in the multiple ways it is mobilized by various actors, actually produces on the political dynamics of the ‘fragile’ contexts it is supposed to support and reinforce. Using an instrumentation perspective, this dissertation addresses this gap by exploring the relationship between the micro-dynamics of the uses of international statebuilding instruments and the fragility of contexts. This exploration is articulated around five essays and as many angles to this relationship. Using the case of Hamas, Essay I explores the European Union’s (EU) terrorist labelling policy by questioning the nature and modalities of the enlisting process, its use as foreign policy tool and its consequences on its other agendas, especially its international statebuilding efforts in Palestine. Essay II examines a Belgian good governance incentive mechanism and sheds the light on the tension between the claimed apolitical and objective nature of the instrument and the politicization potential embedded in its design and modalities, naturally leading to a convoluted implementation. Essay III analyses the localization dynamics of transitional justice in Burundi and unveils the nature, diversity and rationale behind transitional justice subversion techniques mobilized by national and international actors, which have produced a triple form of injustice. Essay IV widens this scope in Burundi, developing the argument that the authoritarian trend observed in the 2010-2015 period did not only occur against international statebuilding but also through self-reinforcing subversion tactics of its appropriation. Finally, essay V deepens the reflection on appropriation by attempting to build a theory of regime consolidation through international statebuilding subversion tactics. Overall, the incremental theory building reflection of the essays converges towards the assembling of a comprehensive framework of the in-betweens of the normative diffusion of liberal democracy, the inner-workings of its operationalization through the resort to the international statebuilding instrument and the intermediary constraints or objectives of actors not only interfering with its genuine realization but also contributing to its antipode of regime consolidation, conflict dynamics and authoritarianism.
Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Ashbourne, Craig Donald. "Rules of engagement: how current tactics corrode the relationship between progressive parties and their bases, and potential means of re-mobilizing the Left." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3950.

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The professionalization of political parties has significantly altered the means by which parties interact with voters and supporters. The current study is an attempt to examine what these changes in political communication mean for the ability of parties to organize supporters and mobilize them both in a campaign setting and in the longer-term struggle. Habermasian and Gramscian perspectives on the relational aspects of political communication highlight the challenges presented by the growing unidirectionality of communication and the concomitant atrophying of intermediary institutions. Beyond this, the work of Bottici and McLuhan is used to expose the effects of the 'arational' aspects of these changes in both form and content. To test the plausibility of the theoretical insights obtained, the case of the New Democratic Party of Canada is considered. The study concludes by considering the potential of new technological developments for resolving or mitigating concerns identified throughout the thesis.
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von, Sydow Momme. "Towards a Flexible Bayesian and Deontic Logic of Testing Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules." Doctoral thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-AC29-9.

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Meyer, John Michael. "Genes, judgments, and evolution : the social and political consequences of distributional and differential conflict." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5617.

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The following argument offers a sharper micro-foundational lens for studying human political and social behavior by demonstrating how political science might better incorporate the theory of evolution into its behavioral models, and by showing that differential conflict occasionally prevails over the materialist conflicts depicted in much of the modern social science literature. I take evolutionary psychology's understanding of manifest behavior as a point of departure, and then analyze the manifest behavior in terms of judgments, which are binary measurements at a particular point of reference; in other words, a given manifest behavior either did or did not occur at a particular point in time. I then show that judgments can 1) transmit from one individual to the next, 2) vary according to predictable adaptive processes, and 3) are either extinguished or flourish dependent upon the process of natural selection; judgments, therefore, meet the three requirements of evolutionary theory. Judgments, rather than genes, better describe the process of human political and social evolution, which becomes especially clear when one assesses the consequences of what I term "differential" outcomes in judgments.
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Vallam, Rohith Dwarakanath. "Game-Theoretic Analysis of Strategic Behaviour in Networks, Crowds and Classrooms." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2955.

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Over the past decade, the explosive growth of the Internet has led to a surge of interest to understand and predict aggregate behavior of large number of people or agents, particularly when they are connected through an underlying network structure. Numerous Internet-based applications have emerged that are as diverse as getting micro-tasks executed through online labor markets (also known as crowd sourcing) to acquiring new skills through massively open online courses (also known as MOOCs). However, there has been a major inadequacy in existing studies with respect to evaluating the impact of strategic behavior of the agents participating in such networks, crowds, and classrooms. The primary focus of this doctoral work is to understand the equilibrium behaviour emerging from these real-world, strategic environments by blending ideas from the areas of game theory, graph theory, and optimization, to derive novel solutions to these new-age economic models. In particular, we investigate the following three research challenges: (1) How do strategic agents form connections with one another? Will it ever happen that strategically stable networks are social welfare maximizing as well? (2) How do we design mechanisms for eliciting truthful feedback about an object (perhaps a new product or service or person) from a crowd of strategic raters? What can we tell about these mechanisms when the raters are connected through a social network? (3) How do we incentivize better participation of instructors and students in online edu-cation forums? Can we recommend optimal strategies to students and instructors to get the best out of these forums?

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Vani, Juliette. "Détermination judiciaire des faits et erreurs judiciaires : perspective narrative sur le processus judiciaire criminel et la recherche de vérité." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19149.

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Ce mémoire propose une conception narrative du système de justice criminel. Pour ce faire, l’auteure mobilise la théorie narrative suivant laquelle le procès contradictoire est appréhendé comme un concours entre différentes histoires. Le caractère général de cette théorie confère à l’auteure l’espace nécessaire pour analyser et expliquer différents aspects du traitement judiciaire des faits, que ce soit la preuve judiciaire, le processus de détermination judiciaire des faits, l’intervention judiciaire en appel ou encore le droit qui encadre chacun de ces aspects. La notion d’« histoire » favorise l’adoption d’une perspective qui sort du cadre restreint du procès dans lequel la notion de « preuve » est enfermée. La théorie narrative permet ainsi à l’auteure d’expliquer et d’organiser en un tout unifié divers aspects du processus judiciaire comme l’enquête, le dépôt des accusations, la théorie de la cause, le contre-interrogatoire ou encore la façon dont les faits sont d’abord choisis et assemblés par les parties avant d’être administrés et traités au procès sous forme de « preuve ». Appliquée au procès, cette théorie implique une approche holistique de la preuve suivant laquelle la détermination judiciaire des faits est une évaluation de la vraisemblance relative des histoires en compétition. Cela remet en question la vision traditionnelle (ou rationaliste) atomiste de la preuve où les faits sont déterminés suite à une décision sur la véracité ou la fausseté de chacun des éléments de preuve. Le nouvel éclairage qu’apporte cette vision narrative du procès et ses diverses implications mènent l’auteure à remettre en question le bien-fondé de la vision traditionnelle voulant que le procès mène à une détermination judiciaire des faits qui soit exacte. Au terme de son illustration de la valeur heuristique de la théorie narrative, l’auteure revisite sous la perspective narrative les récentes études en matière d’erreurs judiciaires. Elle en conclut que le droit commande au juge d’atteindre une vérité hybride sur les faits, à michemin entre, d’une part, ce qui est survenu dans la réalité et, d’autre part, ce qui permet de conférer un maximum de cohérence aux éléments de preuves effectivement présentés au procès.
This master’s thesis proposes a narrative conceptualization of the criminal justice system. The author employs the narrative theory framework that conceives the adversarial trial as a contest between different stories. This comprehensive theory offers a lens through which the author analyzes and explains multiple aspects of the judicial processing of facts including evidence at trial, fact-finding, appellate review and the law governing these aspects. The concept of “story” allows a broader perspective than the concept of “evidence” which is limited to the trial. This umbrella theory is therefore used to explain, organize and provide a united understanding of various aspects of the judicial system, such as the investigatory process, the laying of charges, the theory of a case, the cross-examinations, as well as how facts are chosen and organized before being presented and processed at trial as “evidence”. At trial, the global perspective of the narrative theory challenges the traditional (or rationalist) atomist approach to evidence, which explains fact-finding as a decision based on the truthfulness or the falseness of each individual piece of evidence adduced at trial. The narrative perspective, rather, suggests a holistic approach – fact-finding is a decision regarding the relative plausibility between two competing stories. Thus, these insights from the narrative theory call into question the traditional assumption that trials lead to accurate findings of fact. After her demonstration of the heuristic value of the narrative theory, the author applies the narrative framework to recent studies on miscarriages of justice. She concludes that the law enables triers of fact to reach only a hybrid truth, halfway between what happened in reality and an assessment of the consistency between the evidence adduced at trial.

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Lessard, Joannie. "Les relations mères-enfants lorsqu'un enfant enfreint une règle : étude de l'impact des stratégies visant à renforcer les règles et du climat interpersonnel." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12363.

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Du, Plessis Hanri Magdalena. "The harmonisation of good faith and ubuntu in the South African common law of contract." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23606.

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The legal historical development of fairness in the South African common law of contract is investigated in the context of the political, social and economic developments of the last four centuries. It emerges that the common law of contract is still dominated by the ideologies of individualism and economic liberalism which were imported from English law during the nineteenth century. Together with the theories of legal positivism and formalism which are closely related to parliamentary sovereignty and the classical rule of law, these ideals were transposed into the common law of contract through the classical model of contract law which emphasises freedom and sanctity of contract and promotes legal certainty. This approach resulted in the negation of the court’s equitable discretion and the limitation of good faith which sustain the social and economic inequalities that were created under colonialism and exacerbated under apartheid rule. In stark contrast, the modern human rights culture grounded in human dignity and aimed at the promotion of substantive equality led to the introduction of modern contract theory in other parts of the world. The introduction of the Constitution as grounded in human dignity and aimed at the achievement of substantive equality has resulted in a sophisticated jurisprudence on human dignity that reflects a harmonisation between its Western conception as based on Kantian dignity and ubuntu which provides an African understanding thereof. In this respect, ubuntu plays an important role in infusing the common law of contract with African values and in promoting substantive equality between contracting parties in line with modern contract theory. It is submitted that this approach to human dignity should result in the development of good faith into a substantive rule of the common law of contract which can be used to set aside an unfair contract term or the unfair enforcement thereof.
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