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Revolutions between Kant and Hegel: comments on Hegel and world revolutions
No full textThis paper comments on Richard Bourke's Hegel and World Revolutions, focusing on its analysis of Hegel's relevance for debates on revolution, freedom, and the Enlightenment. While agreeing with Bourke's call for critically engaging with Hegel's ideas rather than dismissing them outright, the paper raises some questions concerning Bourke's reconstruction of Hegel's interpretation of Kant, his account of the French Revolution, and the impact of Hegel's work on contemporary debates
Understanding the role of internal governance units in the process of social innovation: the case of shared lives plus in England
No full textAmid increasing demand for public services and stretched resources policymakers often promote ‘social innovation’ to address these tensions. However, critics argue that social innovation may just be a ‘fashionable concept’ or ‘buzzword’ in public policy discourse and that more empirical research is needed to help improve our understanding of the actors and mechanisms that drive effective social innovations. In response this article draws upon a case study of the development of Shared Lives as an alternative national model of adult social care in England over the past 40 years. Drawing on interviews with 50 individuals carried-out between late-2021 and early-2023, including those involved in four different local schemes, we highlight the positive role played by the organisation Shared Lives Plus, which we conceptualise as an ‘internal governance unit’ (IGU), in terms of establishing and maintaining a ‘community innovation infrastructure’. However, the example of Shared Lives also illustrates the difficult challenges IGUs can face in trying to move social innovations beyond an institutional ‘niche’
Resisting sectarianism: queer activism in postwar Lebanon by John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 196 pp., £16,79 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-7869-9799-9
No full textSituating megaprojects in Asia’s political economy of urbanization
No full textIn this introduction, we synthesize the learning outcomes of the contributing chapters while engaging with the relevant literature on megaprojects and the political economy of urbanization in Asia. Our focus is on the multiscalar politics of state and non-state actors, which drive the proliferation of megaprojects in Asia. We maintain the perspective that each national economy retains elements of developmentalism as an underlying characteristic of state functions. This characteristic is particularly pronounced among the former tiger economies of Asia, especially during their periods of condensed urbanization and industrialization. This volume explores how the developmental orientation of state functions interacts with or opposes the neoliberalizing tendencies of state transformation and shapes the rise of a particularist mode of state intervention in facilitating investment in the built environment. Megaprojects are taken as a lens to observe and explain these phenomena
Effects of condom availability on their use: a field experiment in a Peruvian hostal
No full textPerú has a high rate of unintended pregnancies. STI rates grow. New policies are needed. Contextual factors in the condom use decision are understudied. Self-reported measures of use have proven unreliable. I used a hostal (love-motel) to conduct a field experiment. 102 couples were randomly allocated to three groups with different levels of condom availability. Instead of using self-reported measures, after a couple left, I searched their room for used condoms. Couples in rooms with a condom on the nightstand were 268% more likely to use one than the control group. For couples with a condom available at the reception desk, the increase was 176%. Facilitating condoms in hostales is a suitable strategy to decrease unprotected sex in the country
Institutionalising interpersonal ideas in law
No full textHow can we best deploy law so as to have positive effects in the social world? This question is at the heart of legal scholarship. In this lecture, I revisit a familiar and widely researched aspect of contemporary legal reality – expanding and increasingly complex regulatory frameworks in criminal law and abutting areas of governance – to ask how we might best pursue the project of constraining, rationalising or even reversing these developments to improve their social impact. I suggest that the research evidence points towards giving greater attention to the language framing legal or other regulatory standards, and argue that we should pay attention to the coordinating and communicative potential of legal institutionalisations of ideas which find their primary reference point in extra‐legal discourse. Such concepts have played a key role in the common law, and occupy a central position in legal philosophy, yet until recently their practical importance in shaping legal governance has been eclipsed by concern with the institutional frameworks and vectors of interest within which legal regimes co‐evolve. I argue that scholarship on the development of law amid the interplay of interests and institutional frameworks itself suggests that ideas should hold a key place in the legal imagination
The welfare properties of climate targets
No full textTwo approaches are predominant in climate models: cost–benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis. Cost–benefit analysis maximizes welfare, finding a trade-off between climate damages and emission abatement costs. By contrast, cost-effectiveness analysis minimizes abatement costs, omits damages but adds a climate constraint, such as a radiative forcing constraint, a temperature constraint or a cumulative emissions constraint. We analyse the impacts of these different constraints on optimal carbon prices, emissions and welfare. To do so, we fit a model with abatement costs, capital repurposing costs (stranded assets) and technological change on IPCC and NGFS scenarios. For scenarios reaching 1.5 °C in 2100, a constraint on cumulative emissions has the best welfare properties, followed by a temperature constraint with overshoot. A forcing constraint with overshoot has insufficient early abatement and large net negative emissions later on, leading to a substantial welfare loss of $23 Trillion. As to the paths reaching 2 °C, all cost-effectiveness analysis abate too late, but the welfare impact of this dynamic inefficiency is milder. Again, a forcing constraint with overshoot scores worst. We show that large negative emissions at the end of the century are never optimal and an artefact of constraints with overshoot
Extra-territorial regulatory action in the financial markets: does the EU third country central counterparty regime go too far?
No full textThis article considers how to evaluate extra-territorial regulation, and it makes particular reference to the European Union’s recent proposals for the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (‘EMIR’). Extra-territorial regulatory action is inherently controversial; however it has become increasingly commonplace in the financial markets since 2008 and, especially, Brexit. The article proposes a normative framework based upon Global Administrative Law, and analyses the so-called ‘EMIR 3.0’ proposals for third country central counterparties (CCPs) accordingly. This analysis locates the ongoing debates about the EMIR 3.0 regime in a wider, scholarly context and throws light on the proportionality and efficacy of the proposals. The article also suggests a technique for the review of extra-territorial financial regulation more broadly, arguing that Global Administrative Law provides a valuable way of evaluating substance and of holding decision-makers to account
An SPDE with Robin-type boundary for a system of elastically killed diffusions on the positive half-line
No full textWe consider a system of particles undergoing correlated diffusion with elastic boundary conditions on the half-line in the limit as the number of particles goes to infinity. We establish existence and uniqueness for the limiting empirical measure valued process for the surviving particles, which is a weak form for an SPDE with a noisy Robin boundary condition satisfied by the particle density. We show that this density process has good L 2-regularity properties in the interior of the domain but may exhibit singularities on the boundary at a dense set of times. We make connections to the corresponding absorbing and reflecting SPDEs as the elastic parameter varies
Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?
No full textAcknowledgment of wrongdoing is considered necessary for relationship transformation in processes of transitional justice. However, the concept has only been studied in the institutional and legal context. Its social and interpersonal dimensions at the micro level remain poorly understood. This article addresses this gap by studying interactions between ordinary citizens across ethnic lines in response to war crimes trials. The article uses deliberative reciprocity to create a novel typology to identify meaningful acknowledgement in 162 inter-ethnic exchanges derived from focus groups in four former Yugoslav countries. The study also identifies what triggers this ideal type and finds that the triggers are related to conversational changes in identity constructions and knowledge claims. But the triggers only occur when individuals also endorse each other’s views across ethnic lines. The article thus shows how relationships transform in inter-ethnic interactions, even when individuals hold differing views and arguments about transitional justice