This paper aims at a re-appraisal of the relationship between ordoliberalism and early European integration. This will be pursued through a reconceptualisation of the ordoliberal framework – with an emphasis on correcting its misperception as an exclusively German tradition and its re-constitution within a transnational neoliberal framework. Moving beyond nation-centric historiography and building on research of transnational epistemic communities, this paper will examine the role of the neoliberal framework as a mutually shared approach towards markets and regulatory institutions that animated key architects of European integration. Those responsible for designing integration did not meet and negotiate as representatives of particular national interests or nationally distinct political economies. They shared common perspectives and goals framed within a specific liberal orientation with particular views about the economy, the state and the legal/institutional framework necessary for embedding the market orientation of European integration, best captured by the transnational neoliberal framework.

Housing affordability presents a pressing global issue. While there is a growing need for more urban housing, implementation and regulation of housing densification is highly controversial, especially in Switzerland, where local referendums can delay urban development. The article examines residents’ acceptance of housing densification through a three-step research design, utilizing original experimental survey data and combining stated and experimental behavior with subgroup heterogeneity analysis from 3,497 residents across 162 Swiss cities and towns. Findings show acceptance of housing densification to be influenced by individuals’ relative housing costs, perceived neighborhood density, and political ideology; by social and ecological policy instruments; and between subgroups on socio-economic and ideological grounds. Ultimately, results highlight a broad coalition supporting densification to provide affordable housing and address ecological concerns, offering insights for policymakers. Studying residents’ opinions and behaviors within a direct democratic system and renters society further contributes to advancing theoretical understanding of housing politics.

The richness of bilingual children’s language experience is typically expressed as a composite score using parental questionnaire data. This study unpacks the concept of input richness by examining one such composite score (Q-BEx) to determine whether it reliably predicts children’s language abilities, is no more complex than required, and as user-friendly as possible. Data were collected from 173 bilingual children aged 5 to 8 across three countries (France, Netherlands, UK) with various heritage languages in each. Parents completed the Q-BEx questionnaire and children proficiency tasks in their societal language. We analysed the predictive power of the original score compared to several alternative scoring approaches. Results showed (i) these alternatives were not more informative, (ii) scores including qualitative aspects of richness fared better than those with only quantitative variables, (iii) the latent variables underlying richness were comparable across languages, and (iv) whether parental education was included made little difference.

Delayed reward discounting (DRD), the tendency to prefer smaller rewards available immediately relative to larger rewards available after a delay, is associated with numerous health outcomes across the lifespan. Emerging literature points to the central role of early environments, specifically factors reflecting harshness (including lack of resources) and unpredictability (exposure to instability and stressful events) in the development of DRD. Yet, existing research uses disparate indicators of environmental risk and often draws on small samples resulting in conflicting findings, making comparisons across studies challenging. The current systematic review examined environmental factors that may place youth at greatest risk for heightened DRD and subsequent negative health outcomes. Search results identified 28 articles reflecting 20 unique samples. Additionally, meta-analyses were conducted to examine overall effects for the two most commonly examined environmental predictors (family income and family history of substance use disorder). Results suggest small-to-medium associations of environmental risk with DRD, with smaller associations observed for more distal predictors of harshness (e.g., family income) and larger associations among more proximal indicators of environmental instability (e.g., harsh parenting and parental pathology). Findings highlight the role of environmental factors on DRD development and may inform future interventions.

Factive islands have been argued to be a late acquired phenomenon (de Villiers et al. (1998). Acquisition of the quantificational properties of mental pedicates. In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield, & H. Walsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Boston University conference on language development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press), but existing experimental studies have focused on a very limited number of factive verbs and report variation between verbs. Seventy monolingual Romanian-speaking children (split into two age groups: 5-year-old and 7-year-old children) and 15 adults took part in a comprehension task, which tested the (un)availability of adjunct extraction from the clausal complements of both cognitive and emotive factive verbs. The results show that only at age 7 do children begin to observe the restrictions imposed by factive islands, regardless of the sub-type of factive verb, even though they do not reach full mastery of the phenomenon at this age.

This study examined whether childhood adversity, specifically threat-related adversity, was associated with within-person changes in the cortisol awakening response (CAR) and diurnal cortisol slope (DCS), and whether these changes predicted increased depressive symptoms during adolescence. We also explored sex differences. In total, 283 first-year secondary school students in Belgium (M = 12.48 years; SD = 0.39; 42.8% female) participated in six assessments over 2.5 years. Childhood adversity (psychological, physical, and sexual victimization) reported at the first three waves was averaged. CAR and DCS latent residual change scores were derived from salivary cortisol samples collected during waves 1 and 3. Depressive symptom changes were assessed in linear growth curve models using self-reports from waves 3 to 6. The childhood adversity × sex interaction significantly predicted CAR and DCS changes, indicating a blunted CAR across waves for victimized boys, and a blunted DCS for victimized girls. Childhood adversity predicted the depressive symptoms intercept. No other predictors were associated with the depressive symptoms intercept, and none were linked to the depressive symptoms slope. Thus, childhood adversity may be linked to changes in diurnal cortisol patterns that differ by sex. Evidence for diurnal cortisol changes as a pathway to increased depressive symptoms remains inconclusive.

Underrepresentation of people of color in clinical trials limits equity in research and treatment outcomes. This study evaluated the impact of a brief, community-focused educational intervention on perceptions and willingness to participate. Participants attended 30-minute sessions (9 virtual, 2 in-person). Identical pre- and post-surveys were analyzed using paired t-tests with Bonferroni correction. Eighty-three participants (90.5% Black, 88.4% female; mean age 46.3) showed significant improvements in comfort with participation, randomization, belief in protections, willingness to participate, and comfort in skin-related trials (all p < 0.05). Brief education may improve understanding and participation attitudes in underrepresented groups.

Intersectionality is increasingly being operationalized as part of gender mainstreaming efforts across national and multilateral contexts. One prominent example can be located in Sweden’s 2015 institutional commitment to centering future gender equality policy in an intersectional analysis. This article explores the complexities of institutionalizing intersectionality in Swedish gender equality policy processes, drawing on the situated insights of public sector gender experts and Afro-Swedish feminist activists and politicians. Key findings include the prevalence of additive interpretations of intersectionality that privilege gender, limitations in statistical practices, and uneven commitments to intersectional policymaking across different institutional contexts. Recommendations for enhancing intersectional policymaking include the incorporation of ‘Equity Data’ and qualitative insights through structured dialogues with intersectionally marginalized communities. Ultimately, this article emphasizes the necessity of centering the voices of both institutional insiders and intersectionally marginalized stakeholders to address the shortcomings of intersectional practice to enhance its transformative potential in Sweden.

The retreat of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum provides key insights into ice-sheet dynamics, climate interactions and sea-level fluctuations. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) dating of glacial deposits on the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) offers valuable temporal and spatial information regarding this retreat. However, many erratic deposits are found near the present sea level on the WAP archipelagos, limiting the applicability of TCN dating. This is because some of these deposits were previously submerged and later emerged due to ongoing post-glacial isostatic uplift and global sea-level rise. Here, for the first time on the Antarctic Peninsula, we present TCN dating results for emerged erratic boulders and bedrock samples located below the post-glacial marine limit of the WAP. Samples were collected from three islands along a latitudinal range from 64°S to 68°S: Nansen Island in Wilhelmina Bay (n = 4), Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands-Kyiv Peninsula region (n = 5) and Horseshoe Island on the northern coast of Marguerite Bay (n = 1). Our study indicates that nearshore boulder emergence occurred sometime between 1.4 ± 0.3 and 3.8 ± 0.3 ka ago on the WAP. The bedrock samples on Galindez Island provide somewhat older ages (17.9 ± 2.8 and 11.8 ± 1.9 ka), indicating the earliest emergence following deglaciation of the WAP. We discuss the challenges associated with sampling emerged erratic boulders along the Antarctic Peninsula shorelines and propose methods for overcoming these complications.

In The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould observed that the theory of punctuated equilibria formed “the coordinating centerpiece” of his work in evolutionary biology. It occupied this position because it bridged several themes in Gould’s thought, including the necessity of understanding evolution in a hierarchical context and a critique of the adaptationist program in evolutionary biology. Yet this assessment concealed a historical puzzle. The puzzle arose from the fact that the Gould of “Eldredge and Gould (1972)” held several commitments that the older Gould did not. These included a preference for adaptationist explanations and, perhaps more surprising, a commitment to the central importance of “biological improvement” in the history of life. So, how did punctuated equilibria come to play a coordinating role within a view of evolution that differed starkly from the one Gould held in 1972? And why did it only begin to play this role after 1977? This article answers these questions, focusing on the aims of Gould’s early research program and its transformation in response to external stimuli. In so doing, it illuminates an important and frequently misunderstood episode in the history of paleobiology.

The 1893 Dorpat-to-Iur′ev (present-day Tartu) renaming law marks a key moment in the Romanov imperial government’s efforts to de-Germanize and Russify the Baltic provinces. This article brings legal perspectives to critical place-name studies by examining how the Romanov Empire used law to regulate and exert control over naming practices, and how local inhabitants leveraged their legal knowledge to spot ambiguities, exploit loopholes and defend naming rights in court, thereby engaging in various forms of toponymic resistance. By situating the 1893 renaming law within the broader imperial legal system, this article argues that even ideologically motivated changes to urban toponymy could be subject to legal checks and balances.

This article examines how critical minerals (CM) supply security has been absorbed into the evolving concept of national security underpinning foreign investment screening (FIS), using Australia’s treatment of Chinese CM investment as a case study. It argues that FIS now functions as a tool of strategic alignment through selective, opaque restrictions under the logic of friend-shoring. This shift raises structural tensions with Australia’s obligations under international investment agreements (IIAs). Through analysis of Australia’s FIS regime, its implementation shaped by a CM friend-shoring strategy, and potential conflicts with its IIAs with China, the article situates Australia within a broader global trend in which the expansion of FIS increasingly challenges the coherence of international investment law. It offers a novel conceptualization of FIS as a legal expression of the geoeconomic turn and proposes recommendations for reconciling strategic regulatory discretion with treaty-based commitments in an era of contested globalization.

Mixed markets can enhance welfare compared to full public or private provision. However, this welfare gain depends on the extent to which market distortions exist. Recent literature demonstrates distortions in mixed long-term care markets worldwide. Our study explores potential distortions in the Dutch institutional market. While all Dutch residential nursing homes are non-profit, for-profit organisations, including private equity (PE) firms, have increasingly entered the market, offering round-the-clock care provided in home-like settings as an alternative to non-profit residential care.

We analysed claims data from 2017–2021 for dementia patients aged 70 and older using multinomial logit and Cox Proportional Hazards models. Specifically, we compared risk selection, upgrading, and care quality (measured by avoidable hospitalisations and mortality) between for-profit and non-profit providers.

Our findings do not suggest increased risk selection, higher upgrading, or lower care quality by for-profit (PE-owned) providers compared to non-profit providers. Consequently, we did not find evidence of strong market distortions in the Dutch institutional long-term care market. These results contrast with the existing international literature, suggesting that adverse incentives in the Netherlands may be influenced more by the way care is provided (in home-like settings versus in residential nursing homes) and financing structures rather than ownership type alone.

This article is a case study of the Kasarani Stadium in Kenya as a heuristic through which to understand President Daniel Arap Moi’s political style and priorities during the first decade of his regime. Drawing primarily from national and international newspapers, the archives of national and international sporting organizations and associations, records of the Kenyan government and biographies of Moi, I explore how Moi gave political meaning to sport to advance his populist politics at home and project Kenya on(to) the international stage. At home, he used sports to define himself as a leader of the ordinary mwananchi (citizen), in touch with the experiences, challenges, and visions of the common Kenyan. Internationally, he used sports to chart Kenya’s foreign policy and fashion himself as an international political personality. The article concludes that the study of sports and sporting infrastructure offers a productive way to write social, political, and cultural histories of postcolonial Africa.

This article advances a methodological framework for field-based political philosophy that integrates ethnographic inquiry with normative theorising on socioeconomic injustice. Empirically, it draws on qualitative research with individuals reliant on cash in an increasingly digitalised economy, a context in which infrastructural reforms disproportionately disadvantage socially marginalised groups. The approach is characterised by (i) epistemic recognition of lived experience as a source of normative insight, (ii) critical interrogation of social norms and problem representations associated with digitalisation, and (iii) a commitment to addressing epistemic injustice within philosophical practice itself. We argue that grounding normative theory in subordinated perspectives enhances both the conceptual adequacy of theories of justice and their public relevance. Finally, we reflect on the ethical challenges of research communication aimed at societal impact, emphasising risks of affect-driven “politics of pity” and the importance of maintaining analytical integrity in public engagement.

Following a 2018 FEC ruling, US congressional candidates are increasingly using campaign funds for childcare expenses incurred while campaigning. This policy has the potential to increase descriptive representation, but the policy’s viability is dependent on how voters react to candidates using campaign funds for childcare. Using a national survey experiment, we find that the framing around the use of this policy influences public opinion in meaningful ways. For Democratic respondents, positive framing treatments increase support for a hypothetical woman candidate, and candidate attack frames do not decrease candidate support. For Republican respondents, positive framing treatments do not increase candidate support, while candidate attack frames decrease candidate support. Regarding support for the policy of permitting the use of campaign funds for childcare, results were universally positive. Both positive and negative frames increased support for the policy. This research contributes to multiple literatures by evaluating the public opinion effects of candidates using campaign funds for childcare.

In the last decades deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) have gained significant attention as tools to reform and complement representative democracies, with many governments adopting them. Political representatives, though cautious about power dynamics, seem moderately supportive of extending these procedures. However, little is known about how this predisposition is affected by the institutional design of these procedures and how this might affect their adoption. This paper addresses this gap by presenting results from a conjoint experiment in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Poland. The study, involving 716 representatives, examines how different attributes of deliberative procedures influence decisions to fund their adoption at the local and European levels. Findings show that the binding nature of DMPs is less important than composition characteristics, such as involving representatives in deliberations with citizens and organized civil society. Differences in preferences between local and European levels suggest awareness of challenges in scaling up DMPs.

This article examines the diachronic development of hedged performatives (HP) in spoken American English. HPs (e.g. I have to say, I must admit) combine a (semi-)modal verb and a performative verb, and were first analyzed by Fraser (1975). While subsequent research has investigated their discursive functions and established them as ‘constructions’, their diachronic development has not been analyzed within a Construction Grammar perspective. This article addresses this gap using three corpora: the TV Corpus, Movie Corpus and spoken COCA. We investigate fifteen HPs formed with three modals (have to, must, can), first sketching a constructional network with a macro-level ([I + MODAL + Vperf]), modal-specific meso-level (e.g. [I must Vperf]) and micro-level (e.g. [I must say]). Results show different diachronic trends at the meso-level: [I must Vperf] declines, [I have to Vperf] increases, and [I can Vperf] remains stable. These trends diverge from those of the base modals, confirming their constructional status. For must and have to HPs, change operates primarily at the meso-level, driven by evolving discourse norms. At the micro-level, must/have to HPs follow the meso-level trend, while can HPs show more variation. Finally, HPs are overrepresented in scripted speech, although diachronic trends remain consistent across registers.

Recent studies in Construction Grammar have suggested that contracted modals constitute different constructions from their full forms. In this article, we present a corpus-based analysis of the relationship between the modal forms going to and gonna in British English used on the blogging platform LiveJournal. We report a Collostructional Analysis and a Behavioural Profile Analysis based on a logistic regression model of blind annotations, assessing factors of semantic, pragmatic and social meaning on the choice of the variant, in addition to processing factors. The results show that register formality is the only significant meaning predictor for the alternation between going to or gonna in the corpus. We discuss these results in light of recent theoretical debates on isomorphism and synonymy avoidance in Construction Grammar: specifically, our study provides evidence that social meaning drives the distinction between going to and gonna, validating the recently formulated Principle of No Equivalence, and providing further evidence for the constructionhood of contracted modals.