help other EU-countries through the COVID-19 crisis. Forty percent believed that Austria should be allowed to forbid the export of essential goods such as food, drugs, and protective equipment—while only 25 percent believe that other countries should be
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Babies and Boomers
Intergenerational Democracy and the Political Epidemiology of COVID-19
Toby Rollo
In 1996, then US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, appeared for an interview on 60 Minutes where she was asked about the wisdom of US sanctions against Iraq, which withheld food and medicine and resulted in a public health crisis that
Centralized or Decentralized
Which Governance Systems are Having a “Good” Pandemic?
Jennifer Gaskell and Gerry Stoker
, a small village with 900 inhabitants in the canton of Valais, decided to call each of the 110 households with a resident over the age of 65 to arrange food and medicine deliveries ( Pauchard 2020 ). In Geneva, the immediate focus was on job security
Simon Tormey and Jean-Paul Gagnon
bees and ants, they’re doing it usually because they’ve found a major food source or because they’re wintering and need to rely on each other to keep their homes both warm and clean. But these collectivist animals are not only creatures of the swarm
Contesting Paradigms in Society’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Arena
Theoretical Debates on Agency
Sunday Paul Chinazo Onwuegbuchulam and Khondlo Mtshali
constitute and help a person to live a life that he or she values ( Sen 1999 ). Functionings can be basic ‘beings’ and ‘doings’ in life, such as one’s ability to be healthy, to have security, food, shelter, and so forth. They can also include more complex
Resist and Revivify
Democratic Theory in a Time of Defiance
Jean-Paul Gagnon and Emily Beausoleil
’s aftermath. In part humiliated by lack of work, anxious about their ability—or inability—to pay for housing and food, and increasingly resentful of a widening inequality gap, many voters in the United States and the United Kingdom resonated powerfully with
Alex Lichtenstein
of these democratic organisations available to black workers as tools of their own liberation. Aggett, a medical doctor, worked as a trade union organiser for the multiracial Food and Canning Workers Union until his death in February 1982 after
Anthony Egan
simply spoke and acted with the authority of a singular freedom […]. He called his hearers to be without anxiety for the future concerning clothes, food, or shelter, and he supported his words with his own conduct. […] He seems to have been so free of
Paul Apostolidis, William E. Connolly, Jodi Dean, Jade Schiff, and Romand Coles
collaborators are working on democracy. The union wants to build community support at the college and elsewhere for a broad-based coalition to change the meat production system that simultaneously foists food contamination risks onto consumers, subjects
The Keys to the Economic Kingdom
State Intervention and the Overcoming of Dependency in Africa before the Crisis of the 1970s
Bill Freund
GENCOR. Anton Rupert built a business empire initially based on tobacco, Albert Wessels on assembling Japanese-designed cars and Bill Venter on assembling IT. The successes of Rupert and of the food processing industry (Frankel), supermarkets after 1970s