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THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT, POLITICAL THEORIST, MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S LATER WORK SUGGESTS A POSTURE TOWARD THE POSTMODERNISM THREATS. SOME CLAIM THAT THE LIMITATIONS ARE DUE PRIMARILY TO HEIDEGGER'S "FAILURE TO CONSIDER ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERSUBJECTIVITY" AND SUGGEST THAT THIS IS LARGELY DUE TO HEIDEGGER'S MANDARINISM. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE LIMITATIONS THAT WHITE IDENTIFIES ARE IMPLICIT IN HEIDEGGER'S ACCOUNT OF NEARNESS OF WHICH HIS MANDARINISM IS ONLY A SYMPTOM.

Respond to Stephen White's article in Political theory 18 (1990). Argues that whilst White is correct in his claim that Heidegger's later work suggests a posture toward 'the other' that postmodernism threatens, the limitations of that later work are considerably more serious than White imagines. Includes a response by White. (SJK)

We provide empirical evidence on the long‐term causal impact of military conscription on sexist attitudes and intimate partner violence. To address potential endogeneity, we exploit the conscription draft lottery in Argentina. We combine the draft administrative data with self‐reported survey data. We find that conscription causes men to adopt more sexist attitudes in dimensions such as justification of sexism and violence, sexual machismo, negative attitude towards homosexuality, old‐fashioned sexism, and hostile sexism. Conscription also causes more engagement in intimate partner violence, as measured by self‐reported non‐physical abuse and physical violence.

Game-theoretic modelling is used to study the design of an agreement among residents to conserve a wildlife resource, by not hunting animals illegally, when the community monitors its own behaviour. The analysis demonstrates that such an agreement may be very much costlier for a government to sustain if its incentive structure avoids the payment of monitoring fees, and instead relies on community benefits for conservation, with bonuses for reporting poachers. Conditions are identified for the agreement to be stable against both the temptation to avoid monitoring and the temptation to poach, either with guns or by snaring. In particular, the size of the community must exceed a critical value. Implications are discussed for community-based wildlife management programmes in Africa.

This book is based on a study of 84 technological innovations that won Queen's Awards in 1966 and 1967. Nearly 40 of these are presented as well-documented but readable case histories. The topics range from new antibiotics to fast patrol boats, from an improved way of making bread to aircraft equipment, from new building materials and techniques to scientific instruments, from automatic gearboxes to guided missiles. Many points of interest are covered in the discussion. Is innovation more often 'pushed' by scientific or technological discoveries or more often 'pulled' by the needs of the market or of management? Is is true that outstanding individuals are necessary for success? Is it true that the time-lag between discovery and exploitations is shortening? Can one specify optimum sizes for research teams? What is the role of basic reseach? These are some of the issues raised in the course of a wide-ranging discussion of factors affecting technological innovation.

AbstractThe effect of confinement on intimate partner violence is hard to assess, partly because of usual endogeneity problems, but also because the often‐used report calls poorly measure that violence. We exploit self‐reported survey data from Argentina to study the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic quarantine had unintended consequences on intimate partner violence. The quarantine decree established clear exceptions for heterogeneous subsets of the population and, for reasons plausibly exogenous to the prevalence of intimate partner violence, only some individuals were forced to spend more time with their partners. Using this variability in exposure we find that the lockdown led to an increase between 12% and 35% in intimate partner violence, depending type of violence (emotional, physical or sexual). Given the Argentinian government imposed the full national lockdown when few people felt threatened by the virus, these effects are likely to have been triggered by the actual confinement.