Tag: Norms

Free Download Melissa Schnyder, "Global Norms in Local Contexts: Examining Cases of Environmental Governance in France "
English | ISBN: 3031411072 | 2023 | 91 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global environmental norms are (re)interpreted by local-level actors and translated to a particular local context.

Free Download Laura Valentini, Wendy Tremont King (Narrator), "Morality and Socially Constructed Norms"
English | ASIN: B0CQZ59D5J | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~14:30:00 | 395 MB
Observe social distancing. Tip your waiter. Give priority to the elderly. Stop at the red light. Pay your taxes. Do not chew with your mouth open. These are imperatives we face every day, imposed upon us by norms that happen to be generally accepted in our environment. These ‘socially constructed norms’ elicit mixed feelings. On the one hand, we treat them as valid standards of behavior and respond to their violation with emotions such disapproval, resentment, and guilt. On the other hand, we look at them with suspicion: after all, they are arbitrary human constructs that may contribute to oppression and injustice. In light of this ambivalence, it is important to have a criterion telling us when, if ever, we are morally bound by socially constructed norms and when we should instead disregard them. Morality and Socially Constructed Norms systematically develops such a criterion. It traces the moral significance of those norms to the agential commitments that underpin them, and explains why those commitments ought to be respected, provided the content of the corresponding norms is consistent with independent moral constraints. The book then explores the implications of this view for three core questions in moral, legal, and political philosophy: the grounding of moral rights, the obligation to obey the law, and the wrong of sovereignty violations.

Free Download Proxy War Ethics: The Norms of Partnering in Great Power Competition
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031504577 | 349 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
While proxy relationships can be an effective means international actors use to transfer risk and lower their costs to compete, they also enable actors to circumvent international norms as well as create moral hazards that can make the practice self-defeating if not simply unethical. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book highlights some of these ethical gaps and addresses how proxy relationships introduce additional obligations for both sponsor and proxy. The author examines specific examples of how current precedents set a very high bar for accountability, and perversely incentivizes sponsors to employ proxies while discouraging any effort to moderate proxy behavior since that could imply effective control. In light of this, the book offers policy recommendations on how to best manage these relationships while maintaining certain moral commitments.

Free Download Lawrence Cahoone, "The Emergence of Value: Human Norms in a Natural World "
English | ISBN: 1438494459 | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1259 KB + 3 MB
Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Free Download Edoardo Fracanzani, "Norms Under Siege: The Parallel Political Lives of Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi"
English | ISBN: 1789044669 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 406 KB
A look at the striking similarities between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi, from their business and TV backgrounds to the unprecedented way in which they broke into politics. Both leaders introduced new language patterns, deepened the political wedge between parties, and managed to recruit a significant base of followers; should they be considered a cult, rather than political affiliation? In Norms Under Siege, Edoardo M. Fracanzani goes beyond comparisons between Trump and Berlusconi and asks what is revealed about the kind of society that would allow their rise to power.

Free Download Wolfgang Wagner, "Punishment in International Society: Norms, Justice, and Punitive Practices "
English | ISBN: 0197693482 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 704 KB + 11 MB

Free Download Christian Lo, "When politics meets bureaucracy: Rules, norms, conformity and cheating "
English | ISBN: 1526136686 | 2021 | 208 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book is based on a study of the strategies and tactics applied by municipal bureaucrats and local politicians in the pursuit of political goals in two small Norwegian municipalities. The enactment of a bureaucracy within these small and close-knit communities offer an insight into how formal and informal relations intersect during the production of public policy. By analysing the relation between normative and pragmatic rules regulating political action, Christian Lo demonstrates how the efforts to resolve these tensions and dilemmas involve a balancing of alternative sources of political legitimacy.

Free Download Erich Peter Klement, R. Mesiar, E. Pap, "Triangular Norms"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 904815507X, 0792364163 | DJVU | pages: 406 | 5.6 mb
This book discusses the theory of triangular norms and surveys several applied fields in which triangular norms play a significant part: probabilistic metric spaces, aggregation operators, many-valued logics, fuzzy logics, sets and control, and non-additive measures together with their corresponding integrals. It includes many graphical illustrations and gives a well-balanced picture of theory and applications. It is for mathematicians, computer scientists, applied computer scientists and engineers.

Free Download Noha Shawki, "International Norms, Normative Change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals"
English | ISBN: 1498533027 | 2016 | 230 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book is an edited volume that focuses on international norms and normative change in some of the key areas of sustainable human development. This is an important and timely topic since the international community adopted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September of 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will guide international development efforts over the next fifteen years. For this reason, developing a deeper understanding of the SDGs, the international norms that underpin them, and any normative change they represent is vital for students, scholars, and development practitioners and professionals.

Free Download Jason Eden, "Age Norms and Intercultural Interaction in Colonial North America"
English | ISBN: 1498527086 | 2017 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups conceptualized the human life course and how they adhered to culturally specific sets of beliefs about the young and old. Utilizing evidence drawn from a variety of secondary and primary sources, the authors also show that, as various cultural groups interacted in colonial North America, their views of specific age cohorts evolved and clashed in important ways.