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Demanding Witness
Authors: Weiberg Erika L. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, and Euripides’ Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, this book examines how and why female characters’ expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Demanding Witness argues that tragic representations of female noncombatants’ trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. Yet female characters’ trauma is also difficult to recognize and address because doing so challenges social hierarchies and ingrained power structures. As a result, these characters’ testimonies bring about a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero’s wife and the women he enslaves, Demanding Witness calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Demanding Witness argues that recognizing women’s trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero’s story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences.
Twelve Movements
Authors: Egeler Matthias 
Published: February 2024

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In twelve movements, this chapter presents a critical dialogue between core points of theorizing about landscape, religion, and the supernatural and the rich empirical material from the historic region of Strandir in the Icelandic Westfjords. Tackling “time and memory,” “repeating patterns,” “identity formation,” “morality,” “labor,” “playfulness and adventure,” “power and subversion,” “sound,” “emotions,” “coping with contingency,” “home and unhomeliness,” and “nature and environment,” it shows the central importance of some insights of theory to date while critically reevaluating and reframing others. Thus, it explores some of the main elements that characterize what Diana L. Eck has termed the “grammar of sanctification” of the landscape.
Telling Different Stories with the Same Data
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter discusses how the same data can serve as the foundation for different narratives. During COVID-19, for example, many were vaccinated, but there were racial gaps in vaccine uptake. Was vaccination, then, successful or not? The answer depends on the interpretation of the data. This reflects the importance of working to shape narratives around data to support stories that help build a healthier world.
Should We Be More Upset by This?
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter addresses the shortcomings of COVID-19 vaccination efforts. It examines why there was little activism on behalf of a more effective vaccine rollout. The chapter suggests that to achieve a more effective federal intervention on behalf of health, it is necessary to agitate for it, to demand better, or risk facing more failures by those in power to fully support the public’s health.
Profits and Profiteering
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter addresses the vast profits made by some during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include companies that provided medical equipment and protective masks, drug companies that developed treatments and vaccines, and, less laudably, medical misinformers willing to use anti-vaccine demagogy to grow their audience. The chapter examines how the pandemic opened new markets and raised questions about how the profit motive should factor into the work of supporting public health.
A COVID-19 Poverty Surprise
Authors: Stein Michael D. , Galea Sandro 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter discusses the intersection of COVID-19 and poverty in the United States. It observes how federal COVID-19 relief helped lower the poverty rate and suggests that this success reflects how the national poverty rate can be lowered if the United States chooses to do so. All it takes is the political will.
Historical Persistence and Russian Foreign Policy
Authors: Ziegler Charles E. 
Published: February 2024

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The conceptual framework of the book utilizes a broad historical perspective on Russian foreign policy and an eclectic analytical approach that combines realism’s focus on military and economic power with constructivism’s emphasis on ideas and national identity. There are discernable patterns in Russian foreign policy over time, including economic backwardness, a huge territory with permeable frontiers, insecure borders requiring buffer zones, a multinational society, location between Europe and Asia, an identity that is neither fully European nor fully Asian, and a highly centralized authoritarian political system unconstrained by legal structures. Policy toward the Pacific has been shaped by geopolitical structural factors, domestic political institutions, cultural perceptions of Asia and the Pacific, and the agency of powerful autocrats. Broad measures of regional power over time are presented, and Russia’s power in the Pacific region is assessed historically and in comparison to other regional great powers. The time frame for analysis is the past century and a quarter, from Russia’s early modernization in the late nineteenth century to the present.
Defining “Socialism”
Authors: Sehon Scott R. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter defines “socialism” as coming in degrees along two axes: the degree to which the means of production are collectively owned and controlled, and the degree to which wealth is distributed in an egalitarian fashion. Democratic socialist states are defined as systems with a fairly significant degree of both. Data are presented to indicate that, on this definition, the Nordic countries are significantly more socialist than, for example, the United States. It is also noted that countries from the former Soviet bloc, while having significantly egalitarian distribution of resources, failed to have genuinely collective ownership of the means of production, given that these states were not run democratically.
Moral Philosophy Background and the Master Arguments
Authors: Sehon Scott R. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter presents a moral framework within which to evaluate the dispute between capitalism and socialism. The chapter proposes that we should choose the system that better promotes human well-being, so long as the system does not violate the moral rights of individuals. This claim provides the basis for the Master Argument for Socialism and the parallel Master Argument for Capitalism, arguments which provide the structure for the issues considered in the rest of the book. Complications concerning what better promotes well-being are considered, as well as complications concerning what it means to say that an individual has a moral right. The chapter adopts an approach to these questions adapted in large part from the account of rights presented by Ronald Dworkin.
The Progress Argument
Authors: Sehon Scott R. 
Published: February 2024

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Defenders of capitalism point out, correctly, that human well-being has increased dramatically over the past two centuries. Since this time period also corresponds to the rise of capitalism, many are quick to draw the inference that capitalism explains the increases in well-being, and they assert that if we were to move in a socialist direction we would undermine this progress. This chapter argues that this inference is too quick and that the evidence does not support the claim that capitalism explains rises in global wealth and life expectancy. One problem for the capitalist argument: there were comparable rises in wealth and life expectancy in the state socialist countries of China and the Soviet bloc. The chapter suggests that the real explanation for the increases in well-being is more likely to be the scientific revolution rather than the capitalist economic system.
Many (Krishna-Centric) Mahabharatas
Authors: Pillai Sohini Sarah 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Chapter 2 surveys Mahabharatas in regional South Asian languages that were composed between 800 and 1700 CE. While this chapter discusses some Mahabharatas that are unconcerned with Vaishnava bhakti, the chapter’s overview of Assamese, Bengali, Bhasha, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu retellings shows that there was a virtually continuous centering of the Mahabharata tradition around Krishna in premodern South Asia. This chapter highlights two major themes of the book. The first is that regional Mahabharata poets transform the narrative of the epic into a Krishna-centric work of emotional bhakti in very similar ways including merging the Krishnas of the Mahabharata and Vrindavan and presenting Krishna as a loving, all-powerful god whose main concern is the Pandavas’ safety. The second is that devotional Mahabharata poets regularly utilize expressions of Vaishnava bhakti from their own local literary cultures.
Beginning with Bhakti
Authors: Pillai Sohini Sarah 
Published: February 2024

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Chapter 5 argues that Villiputturar uses invocations that commence thirty-seven of the fifty chapters of the Tamil Pāratam to firmly anchor his Mahabharata retelling in the bhakti literature of the Shrivaishnava religious community in South India. After providing a history of the use of invocations in Tamil literary works, this chapter asserts that the markedly Shrivaishnava invocations in the Pāratam are a direct response to the more ambiguous invocations in Kampan’s twelfth-century Tamil Irāmāvatāram, a Ramayana retelling that is often categorized as a work of Vaishnava bhakti. The chapter then shows how Villiputturar’s invocations place the Pāratam in a Shrivaishnava bhakti context and reframe the narrative of the epic as a Shrivaishnava kṛṣṇacarita. Finally, this chapter examines of some of the Pāratam’s chapters without invocations and discusses why Villiputturar skips invocations in these chapters of his poem.
Organizing Religious Practices
Authors: Stauffer Aaron 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter delves into the practice of the relational meeting and the listening campaign. In making the case that these practices are lived religious practices, it draws on two recent trends in scholarly literature by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and some Christian theologians and ethicists: lived religion and practice theory. The first section defines “lived religion” and “religious practices.” The second section turns to the relational meeting and the listening campaign themselves and makes the case that they can be seen as lived religious practices. The final section explores how these two organizing religious practices are deeply embedded in relationships of power and how centering the political role of sacred values can transform the entire practice of BBCO.
Our Political Relationship with Sacred Value
Authors: Stauffer Aaron 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter begins with an example that illustrates a common presupposition: sacred values are incommensurable (in a bad way) with other political values—and so they simply cannot be sources of group solidarity, especially in group conflict on matters of sacred value. This is incommensurability problem and it presumes a monist theory of value. The first section explores this problem and shows that it leads to the problem of moral horror. In the second section I explore Robert M. Adams’s work on moral horror and contrast it with a social practical account. The third section elaborates my account of social practical reasoning, sacred value, and the ethical life of Spirit. The fourth section offers a political role of sacred values grounded in an account of social practical reasoning. The final section applies the lessons from my framework of social practical reasoning and teases out implications for questions of agency.
Introduction
Authors: Nichols Tom 
Published: February 2024

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What is “the death of expertise?” This chapter explores the nature of the problem—and explains why, despite the traditional tensions that have always existed between elites and laypeople, the rejection of established knowledge in the twenty-first century is a qualitatively new phenomenon, one that threatens political stability in democratic nations. The chapter also suggests why the death of expertise is intimately tied to democracy. The latter part of the chapter previews the book and offers synopses of the coming chapters.
Conclusion
Authors: Nichols Tom 
Published: February 2024

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The concluding chapter reviews the current state of the problem and suggests some solutions—but with a warning of darker days ahead for expertise and knowledge. The chapter includes examples drawn from Brexit, the COVID pandemic, and other events. The book ends with thoughts on repairing the social contract between experts and citizens, and warns of the danger to liberal democratic governments if the “death of expertise” continues to undermine democracy.
Evidence for Change in Narrative Identity
Authors: McLean Kate C. 
Published: February 2024

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The evidence for change in narrative identity is reviewed with a focus on studies of repeated narration, or whether stories are repeated over time. Longitudinal evidence for change in the ways that stories are narrated is reviewed, as well as evidence for change in how particular stories are told over time. Speculations about what change and stability might signal about identity development are offered, as are different conceptualizations of change over time—seismic change and change by degrees. Methodological challenges are discussed to the study of narrative change, as well as the lack of evidence for profound and sustained change in the current literature.
The Agency in Resistance
Authors: McLean Kate C. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter addresses the complexity of agency in storytelling, arguing that agency must be viewed in terms of one’s place in society. First, the capacity and responsibility to resist harmful master narratives are discussed as kinds of personal agency. Interpersonal and sociopolitical contexts that support and nurture resistance are discussed. Second, this chapter draws special attention to how agency is employed and weaponized depending on where one sits in the social structure. In particular, the responsibility to resist oppressive master narratives rests not only with those who are oppressed but also with those who are the oppressors.
Digital Technologies and Public Procurement
Authors: Sanchez-Graells Albert 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The digital transformation of the public sector has accelerated, fuelled by the ‘shift to digital’ during the pandemic and advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). States are experimenting with technology, seeking more streamlined and efficient digital government and public services. However, there are significant concerns about risks and harms to individual and collective rights under new modes of digital public governance. Several jurisdictions are attempting to regulate digital technologies, especially AI. However, regulatory effort primarily concentrates on technology use by companies, not government. The regulatory gap underpinning public sector digitalization is growing. Public procurement emerges as a ‘regulatory fix’ to govern public sector digitalization. As it controls the acquisition of digital technologies, procurement is expected to ensure that the public sector is a ‘responsible buyer’ and user. Procurement should ‘regulate by contract’ so that public sector digitalization is trustworthy, ethical, responsible, transparent, fair, safe, cyber secure, etc. Procurement standards and best practices could then be forms of soft regulation to shape digital technology markets. Bringing together insights from political economy, public policy, science and technology studies, and legal scholarship, this book demonstrates that procurement cannot perform this gatekeeping role effectively. Relying on ‘regulation by contract’ creates a false sense of security in governing the transition towards digital public governance. It leaves the public sector exposed to the ‘policy irresistibility’ that surrounds hyped digital technologies. The book demonstrates this through a detailed case study of procurement digitalization as a site of unregulated technological experimentation. The book proposes an alternative regulatory approach.
The Two Roles of Procurement in the Transition Towards Digital Public Governance
Authors: Sanchez-Graells Albert 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter explores the position of public procurement and its roles in the broader transition towards digital public governance. First, it describes how, within the emergent model of risk-based regulation in the European Union and the United Kingdom, procurement is being assigned a gatekeeping role to discipline the adoption and use of digital technologies by the public sector and to promote goals such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability. The chapter explores the extent to which selected putative goals of digital regulation pose challenges for implementation through procurement—which will be assessed in detail in Part II of the book. The chapter then frames procurement as a site of technological experimentation, as procurement is itself an area of public sector activity currently undergoing digitalization. Digital procurement thus offers a useful case study to understand the broader challenges, issues, and limitations in the leveraging of procurement to regulate public sector digitalization—which will be developed in Part III. This chapter thus lays the foundation for the analysis of the gatekeeping and experimentation roles of procurement in the transition towards digital public governance in the remainder of the book.
Procurement Tools for Digital ‘Regulation by Contract’
Authors: Sanchez-Graells Albert 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter focuses on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for digital ‘regulation by contract’ to assess their suitability for the task. It takes a cradle-to-grave view of the mechanisms and principles of procurement that could be activated to create or enforce digital regulation requirements. It primarily assesses whether procurement tools could effectively operationalize digital regulation goals without simply transferring regulatory decisions to economic operators—as the primary purpose of the gatekeeping role is to discipline their behaviour and to operate as a market-shaping or norm-setting mechanism. The chapter shows that, in the absence of externally determined mandatory requirements, limitations in the permitted prescriptiveness of procurement requirements significantly raise the complexity or simply make it impossible to use procurement tools effectively for digital regulation purposes.
Identifying Emerging Risks in Digital Procurement Governance
Authors: Sanchez-Graells Albert 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter explores the main governance risks and legal obligations arising from the adoption of digital technologies. These revolve around data governance, algorithmic transparency, technological dependency, technical debt, cybersecurity threats, risks stemming from the long-term erosion of the skills base in the public sector, and difficult trade-offs due to the uncertainty surrounding immature and still changing technologies within an also evolving regulatory framework. The chapter offers a critical assessment of both the need to recognize the new risks and to factor their assessment into decisions on whether to adopt digital technologies. The chapter also makes links with the changing nature and displacement of governance risks, which can create opacity and difficulties in the identification of technology-enabled corrupt or anticompetitive practices.
The Politics of Governance and State Capacity
Authors: Hickey Sam , Sen Kunal 
Published: February 2024

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The question of what role the state should play in delivering and enabling development has long been at the heart of development theory and policy debates. The mainstream response from the 1990s until the late 2000s was dominated by the ‘good-governance’ agenda, which used conditionality to encourage developing countries to adopt of a particular set of reforms aimed at reducing the state’s role in development. This agenda was heavily criticized from the outset, and by the end of the 2000s even those development agencies that had led the good-governance agenda conceded that it had performed at best partially, often because of a lack of fit with the incentives facing political elites in developing countries. Since around 2010, the search has been on for a more realistic governance agenda, involving a shift away from widespread public-sector reform programmes to more problem-solving initiatives, and including a growing focus on the role that specific pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness might play in delivering development. This chapter sets out how a key plank of the good-governance agenda—public-sector reforms—played out in Africa, and the role of elite incentives and ideas in shaping the extent to which reforms were adopted and implemented. It then moves on to examine how certain key state agencies in Africa were supported by international development agencies and political rulers to become pockets of effectiveness that delivered on their mandates, with a particular focus on finance ministries, central banks, and revenue authorities. It shows how bureaucratic performance, governance, and state-building are profoundly shaped by political settlements.
Technology in Financial Markets
Authors: Dell'Erba Marco 
Published: February 2024

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In recent years, technology has emerged as a disruptive force in the economy and finance, leading to the establishment of new economic and financial paradigms. Focusing on blockchain technology and its implementations in finance, this book proposes a novel theoretical approach to disruption. Relying on complexity science, it develops a dynamic perspective on the study of disruptive phenomena and their relationship to financial regulation and the law. It identifies the intrinsic interconnections characterizing the ‘multidimensional’ technology-driven transformations, involving commercial practices, capital markets, corporate governance, central banking, and financial networks. From this perspective, it considers how they are reflected at the level of contract law, financial law, corporate law, and central banking law. The book adopts a unique comparative approach, and explains and clarifies the factual and historical dimensions underlying the emergence of the crypto-economy. Blockchain technology is a useful case study for two reasons. First, it exemplifies the way each subpart of the financial system—commercial practices, financial markets, corporations, central banking, networks—and consequently each subcategory of financial regulation evolves on an individual basis. Second, it shows how such subparts evolve together, bringing about systemic transformations and ultimately leading to the creation of new economic and financial paradigms. The book takes into account both of these perspectives, analysing the evolution of each subpart and emphasizing the interconnected transformations. In doing this, it adopts the structure of an ascending climax, starting from contracts and escalating to increasingly broad dimensions, in particular capital markets, corporate governance, central banking, and financial networks.