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Coda
Authors: Allen-Paisant Jason 
Published: February 2024

AbstractThe coda offers a conclusion to the book’s reflections. Written in the first person, this section brings together personal narrative with philosophical thought to suggest what adopting thinking with spirits means practically. It answers the following questions: What would a praxis of ‘thinking with spirits’ entail in everyday life? What politics—even a politics of the self—follow from this? What kinds of responses does thinking with spirits bring to the contemporary chatter around the climate crisis and ecological collapse? It offers an example of how one might connect to a sense of technology that involves a reactivation of our earthly consciousness, in other words a form of technology that becomes linked to poiesis.
The Indo-Iranian Religion
Authors: Oberlies Thomas 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The shared elements of Zoroastrianism and the Ṛgvedic religion, going back to an Indo-Iranian religion, are manifold. The number of shared deities and religious concepts (e.g. certain cosmographic ideas and a specific form of ʻtruthʼ) is very high, and reconstruction can even be extended to general assumptions about rituals. The centre of the Indo-Iranian cultic system is the sacrifice, in which the gods are treated to convivial offerings such as food, drink, poetry, and the divine potion (Soma in Vedic). These central elements retain their importance in Ṛgvedic times. The layer of beliefs and cultic forms inherited from the Indo-European age was overlaid by another in the period when Vedic and Iranian tribes were one community.
Service provision or tax exemptions
Authors: Kjær Anne Mette , Arinanye Clayton 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The light taxation of Ugandan agriculture offers a weak basis for revenue bargaining and a weak starting point to demand better services. However, agriculture sector actors have recently raised for public debate a number of issues related to taxation, much more so than demands for improved services. This chapter explores this puzzle through seven instances of revenue bargaining, four involving tax-related issues, and three about service delivery. We ask whether different bargaining outcomes can be explained by features of the bargaining process. We find that the most successful cases of policy influence are those in which the farmers’ organizations seek a tax exemption. In contrast, attempts at influencing non-tax agricultural policies were not successful. Such differences can be attributed to various features of the bargaining process. For example, we see much stronger mobilization and more cross-associational alliances against taxes than we do for improved service delivery.
Campaign financing and revenue bargaining in Tanzania and Uganda
Authors: Khisa Moses , Msami Jamal , Therkildsen Ole 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter analyses the link between campaign financing and revenue bargaining. We argue that campaign financing, especially for the incumbent president, provides more bargaining power for campaign donors than paying taxes. Because increased electoral competition makes ruling parties more dependent on private campaign funding and use of government budgets, such dependency enhances the bargaining power of campaign funders. Our findings show that presidential campaign costs in Uganda, where elite fragmentation is considerable, increased significantly in the election cycles of the 2010s compared to Tanzania. What is more, in both countries, expenditures are higher for the incumbents than for opposition candidates, and the government budget is a much more important source of funding for presidential elections in Uganda than in Tanzania. Also, private sources for the ruling party are mainly individuals and domestic companies who successfully bargain for reduced taxation and access to rents.
Conclusion
Authors: Bak Ane Karoline , Kjær Anne Mette , Ulriksen Marianne S. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
In this concluding chapter, we summarize the comparative findings from across the ten empirical chapters in this edited volume. We present key findings on the three most common triggers of revenue bargaining; on how and where processes of bargaining unfold, focusing on the influence of relative-bargaining positions of revenue providers and ruling elites at the outset and how it evolves; and on the outcomes, specifically whether revenue bargaining leads to fiscal contracts and what such contracts look like. We end the chapter by highlighting two broader macro-level implications of our findings: first, politics matters in revenue mobilization whereby those within or close to the ruling elite can negotiate better outcomes than those who are less favourably placed. Second, we see signs of state–society reciprocity, which opens the political space and holds promises for more inclusive and formalized settings for policymaking and, hence, the potential for a society-wide fiscal social contract.
Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor
Authors: Shaffer Paul 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Immiserizing growth (IG) refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualized? How often, when and where does it occur? Why does it occur? This book aims to address these three sets of questions, drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches. It presents a conceptualization of IG which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed and ‘avoidably’ harmed by growth, respectively. It addresses the second set of issues drawing on comparable household survey data from around 1990 using multiple poverty lines and time periods, and different measures of growth and poverty. It reviews explanations of immiserizing growth found in a wide variety of bodies of thought including the classical tradition of political economy (Mathus, Ricardo, and Marx), radical traditions of scholarship, literatures on poverty dynamics and inclusive growth, and empirical case studies. Eight categories of processes and mechanisms of IG emerge from these literatures related to: (i) sectoral, spatial or other dimensions of growth; (ii) poverty traps; (iii) public action or inaction; (iv) changes in relative prices or the terms of trade; (v) technological change; (vi) violence and conflict; (vii) dispossessions and indebtedness and viii) environmental degradation and ‘natural’ phenomena. Part II of this book empirically investigates some of these potential drivers of IG using econometric analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and case studies. The various chapters of this book make distinct historical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions and further our understanding of a phenomenon which remains underexamined and inadequately understood.
Magnetic Domains
Authors: O’Grady K. , Fernandez G. Vallejo , Hirohata A. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter reviews the basic concepts and fundamentals of magnetic domains but not in great detail as the majority of domain theory does not apply to particulate and granular materials. However the key anisotropies, magnetocrystalline and shape, are described in detail and the basis of the formation of domains and the resulting magnetisation processes are discussed. Phenomenon of single domain particles and why they are formed and their reversal mechanisms are discussed in detail including coherent and incoherent reversal and the role of easy axis alignment. Exchange coupling is discussed for the case of granular thin films as is the general topic of ferrimagnetic nanoparticles which are those which find applications.
Magnetic Recording
Authors: O’Grady K. , Fernandez G. Vallejo , Hirohata A. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The basis of information storage on magnetic materials is described in terms of its development from early tape recording to advanced digital data storage. This includes the phenomenon of anhysteretic magnetic recording which provides a linear response. This is followed by a description of the development of disk recording with data stored in the plane of the disk and the development of advanced disk structures and read heads based on spin valves or spin tunnel junctions. The fairly recent transition to perpendicular recording is then described where data is now stored perpendicular to the plane of the disc and a detailed description of the disk structure and the read/write head is presented. Finally the development and recent commercialisation of heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is described in some detail.
Pufendorf on Confessional Strife and Interstate Relations
Authors: Boyd Nathaniel 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
The present chapter analyses Samuel Pufendorf’s understanding of the international legal order and how it was shaped by his reflections on topics that are conventionally distinguished from international law in academic study, namely, religious toleration and theology. The first and second sections examine the post-Westphalian system in the Holy Roman Empire and the importance of keeping the promises made between states. The third section takes up the theological dimension of Pufendorf’s thinking in Jus feciale divinum (1695) and the covenant or federal theology it involves. Parallels are consequently drawn between Pufendorf’s arguments on covenants with treaties in international law. The concluding section studies these aspects in further detail and shows the extent to which Pufendorf’s conception of international law reflects the pattern of his theology.
Pufendorf’s Idea of Natural Equality
Authors: Behme Thomas 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
How does Pufendorf conceive natural equality? Does he follow Hobbes in conceiving it as a technical rule leading to peace, namely, to consider those as equals whom one is not able to subdue? According to that view, the concept of equality legitimates a far-reaching sovereign disposal of the social hierarchy in the state according to the requirements of peace and security. Or does he understand natural equality as an articulation of an idea of human dignity that deduces an equal right of self-determination from the moral freedom of man? According to the first view, Pufendorf’s concept of natural equality is simply a tool of state-building. According to the second view, it is a fundamental and unalienable feature of humanity that has to be protected by any political authority. This chapter considers Pufendorf’s concept of natural equality and its systematic place in his natural law doctrine.
Consent Matters
Authors: Goodin Robert E. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person’s consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked, and revoked? What is the role of social and legal norms in governing consent? How contextually sensitive should those norms be in applying to diverse settings, ranging from sexual encounters to prison hospitals to the poll booth? Those are the sorts of broad questions animating this book. It aspires to provide a comprehensive account of the social practice of consent, informed by deep reading in the history of ideas, philosophy, law, political science, and sociology. Consent Matters thus serves, at one and the same time, as a guide for the perplexed social practitioner of consent and as a touchstone for philosophical attempts to theorize and to refine those existing practices.
Revoking Consent
Authors: Goodin Robert E. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
If something can permissibly be done only with a person’s consent, and that person no longer consents, then on the face of it that thing cannot (any longer) permissibly be done. But consent cannot be revoked once the consented-to act is over, and there is a natural presumption that consent to on-going activities continues until it is explicitly revoked. Others reasonably relying to their detriment on your previous consent constitutes a pro tanto reason against revoking it and in favour of compensating them for their reasonable reliance if you do. Where the other has incurred uncompensatable costs in relying on your previous consent, that provides a pro tanto reason for thinking it irrevocable
Consent of the Unconscious and the Incompetent
Authors: Goodin Robert E. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Consent of unconscious people is most often discussed in connection with performing medical procedures on comatose patients. But those issues arise particularly pointedly in sexual encounters where one person consents to another’s performing sexual acts on them when they are unconscious. Consent was given before they became unconscious; but continuing consent is required, and unconscious (or incompetent) people are constitutionally incapable of either reaffirming or revoking consent. That may not be a problem for surgeons operating on pre-consenting patients while comatose, because the surgeon stands in a fiduciary relation to the patient in a way the sexual partner does not. Connected to that is the fact that saving lives where you can is the ‘moral default rule’, whereas securing sexual gratification with or without consent is most definitely not.
Decolonising Comparative Constitutional Law (and Democratisation Studies)?
Authors: Daly Tom Gerald , Samararatne Dinesha 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
What factors drive constitutional change and sustain positive transformation? How are democratic values recognised, restored, and preserved through constitutional change? How can these questions be answered in a manner that is relevant to most of the world? This introductory chapter presents the motivations and aims of the collection; situates this work within the rapidly expanding literature on the building, decay, and breakdown of liberal democracy; reflects on the considered methodological approach pursued and the need to decolonise comparative constitutional law and democratisation studies; explores and interrogates the conceptual framework of democratic consolidation and constitutional endurance as it applies to the seven case studies (Ethiopia, The Gambia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand); and provides a summary of each chapter.
The Role of Governing Institutions in Attempted Reform Processes
Authors: Zulueta-Fülscher Kimana 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores the role of governing institutions, as either catalysts, allies, or potential obstacles to reform, by analysing the structure and character of these institutions in the seven case studies included in this book. Central to this chapter is the very complex relationship between (and within) the executive and the legislature in parliamentary monarchies/republic, presidential, semi-presidential, and assembly-independent systems. Looking at these systems, the chapter also focuses on the relationship between the political, the electoral, and the political party system in an attempt to assess whether, and how, this interaction may have contributed or not to stable and resilient governments with enough power to push through reforms. It stands out that all seven countries have endured significant setbacks to reform processes mostly aimed at consolidating democracy by way of increasing the accountability of state institutions and rebalancing executive–legislative relations. Some of the factors contributing to these (temporary) failures include the highly fragmented and weak nature of many opposition coalitions; the personalised nature of political parties and high levels of party corruption, which result in weak parliaments that fail to serve in their oversight capacity; the general fluidity of the political party system; and the short-termism of many political leaders and their electorate. Underlying the latter are two different world views—liberal-republican and communitarian and/or ethno-nationalist—that help build narratives and expectations as to the way politics is practiced and the role and aim of governing institutions in processes of democratic consolidation.
Maldives Constitution 2008
Authors: Zulfa Mariyam 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Maldives introduced multiparty democracy and multi-candidate elections for the first time in its constitutional history in 2008. Since then, party politics has gained ground, with ten parties active on the ground today. Experience since the new Constitution’s inception has shown that no one political party has attained the constitutionally required 50 per cent + 1 votes in the first round. The resultant coalition-making is anomalous to the presidential system the Constitution is predicated upon and needs review. The embeddedness of a constitutional culture resulting from centuries of monarchical, and later authoritarian, rule; the relative youthfulness of political parties manifested in their lack of liberal ideological bearings; and the continued factionalisation and disagreements amongst party elites are all signposts for review as the democratisation process embraces more citizen participation. Maldives’ case study illustrates that constitution-making processes are sites for power play by political elites. While political parties create a space for greater public participation, something more is required for the true benefits of individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution to flow to the people and for institutional resilience to set in.
Myanmar’s Transition to Peace and Democracy
Authors: Zin Ohn Mar , Janet Naw , Zulueta-Fülscher Kimana 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores Myanmar’s political journey from colonial times to the 2021 military coup d’état, which reversed ten years of a difficult yet hopeful transition to peace and democracy. After decades of military rule, Myanmar’s shift to a civilian government in 2010, under a military-sponsored constitution, constituted a significant turnaround, which paved the way for the start of a transition to peace, democracy, and economic development. The 2008 Constitution, however, guaranteed key institutional powers to the Myanmar armed forces, which ensured that it controlled key ministries in Myanmar’s executive, and the possibility of vetoing constitutional amendment proposals in the Union Parliament. The armed forces, and its commander-in-chief, thus remained key actors—and potential veto players—in Myanmar’s myriad transitions. This chapter looks closely at the democratic transition first under the military-sponsored Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), then, since 2015, under the government of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD). It also describes the way in which the very fragile and politically charged dynamics between the NLD, the armed forces, and a myriad ethnic groups and their representatives challenged progress in the peace negotiations and, as a result, on constitutional reform and the planned transition towards federalism and institutional reform. The coup d’état on 1 February 2021, after the NLD again won the November 2020 elections by a landslide, constituted a setback, though it allowed the emergence of a stronger resistance movement against the armed forces.
A Vision for Engaging the Arts in Social Work Practice
Authors: Kelly Brian L. , Lanza Carrie , Travis Raphael , Ellis Taylor 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter guides readers to consider a richer palette of art-based possibilities for culturally responsive, antiracist, and trauma-informed micro, macro, and mezzo client and community-centered practice. Introductory statements described background, positionality, as well as theoretical sensitivity and distinctive spin on arts and social work are provided. Intersectional identities are explained as workers/artists—artists/workers, situating the commentary in grounded yet simultaneously disruptive challenges to the field’s privileging of depersonalizing, outcome-oriented practices. While acknowledging hurdles to needed change, readers are not allowed to dwell in negativity or lose hope. Instead, they are assured that art makes it possible to “work within unrest” and address distress toward a more united and better world.
Living and Working Through Pandemics, Disasters, and Other Traumatic Events
Authors: Hedlund Susan , Miller Bryan , Nehru Leena 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This chapter highlights the enormous stresses that COVID-19 has imposed on the health care workforce. Burnout is an occupational hazard that has reached new critical levels for health care professionals. Disaster preparedness, response, and recovery-related research, theories, and models have evolved over the past several decades. In addition to new and complex challenges the pandemic has created, it also creates opportunity for further research to provide guidance for optimal models of support for health care professionals. Understanding the mental-health needs of the health care workforce is essential both to recovery and to prepare for future pandemics, disasters, and other traumatic events. Oncology and palliative social workers are poised to take a leadership role in assisting organizations in recognizing and addressing inequities, compassion fatigue, staff burnout, and institutional resilience strategies.
Advantages to Leading as Pastors of Color
Authors: Edwards Korie Little , Kim Rebecca Y. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractGiven the tremendous pull of homophily and the reality of racial segregation in the American religious landscape, it is altogether reasonable to ask why anyone, particularly a person of color, would want to pay the significant costs of leading multiracial congregations. In an effort to address this important question, this chapter explores the advantages that pastors of color have as leaders in multiracial spaces. Pastors of color tend to have three main advantages. One is that they are multicultural. By this, we do not mean their heritage is multicultural; rather, they are fluent in more than one culture. They are familiar with, for instance, the behavioral norms, values, ideologies, theologies, ways of speech, language, and style as well as material culture, like music, food, clothing, art, and technology, of their own ethnoracial culture and the dominant white culture. Another advantage is that they are able to see, comprehend, and navigate the racialized social system. A third advantage is that they can act as bridges between their ethnoracial religious community and their current religious network.
Regret, Valuing, and Virtue
Authors: McQueen Paddy 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter examines the relationship between regret, value, and virtue. It provides a detailed discussion of R. Jay Wallace’s account of regret, which asserts that we should experience regret when things that we value are harmed. Wallace also argues that we are unable to regret things that are causally necessary for the existence of things that we are attached to. Both claims are challenged. The chapter also critiques Carla Bagnoli’s account of regret as a response to unrealised values. It then considers emotional responses to tragic dilemmas / tragic conflicts. Contrary to what many philosophers assert, it argues that one ought not to regret a decision one made, so long as one recognises that it was the best choice that one could make in the circumstances. This applies no matter how undesirable the choice is.