Abstract In recent years, several proposals by states to reform or displace investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) have gained prominence. While many factors shape which support, here we focus on one important, but often overlooked, factor: the ‘insider’ ‘outsider’ status of government officials who formulate states’ proposals. Based five years para-ethnographic observation and interviews wit...

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[59] Milman Parry’s work attempted to demonstrate the traditional character of Homeric poetry. Despite a later shift in focus from the concept of “traditional” to “oral” (Finnegan 1991: 120), with at least the implication of a relatively open system as opposed to a relatively closed one, Parry’s early emphasis on tradition was so strong that his theory tended to be read as one discounting, if n...

An increase in dog menace and dog bite by stray dogs in Indian cities and towns could be attributed to genetic changes because of cross breeding with ferocious hunter dogs which are being taken up by humans as captive pet dogs since it has become a craze to keep farm hunting dogs as pets in urban societies, especially in India. Moreover availability of waste food acts as a strong epigenetic fac...

When asked about criteria for assessing quality in academic research, 94 scientists working in the domain of health research but coming from different backgrounds (biomedicine, medicine and social sciences) believed that peer-reviewed articles were still the best academic achievement indicators [1]. According to Albert’s study, the three interrelated arguments that were emphasized when talking ...

This paper represents an effort to explain the originality of a consensus theory, its similarities and differences with neo-institutional theory. The author discusses the interrelations between the terms convention and institute, trying to determine the overlapping and disciplinary boundaries of the economy of conventions and neo-institutional economic theory. We start from the hypothesis that ...

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