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Mimesis and Ritual: Girardian Critique of the Social Contract
2014
Res Cogitans
Rene Girard's theory of human nature as involving mimesis and ritual offers a more sufficient account for this continuity than that of the social contract theorists. ...
a basis for the evolution of the social contract into a pragmatic contract. ...
If Girard is correct, we need to question the misunderstandings of human nature on which the social contract was founded. ...
doi:10.7710/2155-4838.1114
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The Role of Family Ties in Agency Contracts
2001
Academy of Management Journal
The study also demonstrates that executives operating under weakly relational (less ambiguous) contracts are held more accountable for firm performance and business risk outcomes, even under nonfamily ...
, such as incomplete contracting and opportunities for ex post negotiation (Milgrom & Roberts, 1992). ...
In turn, an executive under a more weakly relational contract (that is, an editor) may be blamed for poor performance and serve as a scapegoat for disappointing results. ...
doi:10.5465/3069338
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A Study of the Employment of Denial During a Complex and Unstable Crisis Involving Multiple Actors
2014
International Journal of Business Communication
more hostile releases. ...
with carefully employed denial to share blame. ...
How did BP exact their scapegoating blame-sharing strategy? ...
doi:10.1177/2329488414525454
fatcat:z5aquhhn3nhznhyzdzbkxvttoe
Accountability in an Algorithmic Society: Relationality, Responsibility, and Robustness in Machine Learning
[article]
2022
arXiv
pre-print
for outcomes caused by many moral actors; 2) "bugs," a way software developers might shrug off responsibility by suggesting software errors are unavoidable; 3) "computer as scapegoat," shifting blame ...
Using the conceptual framing of moral blame, Nissenbaum described four types of barriers to accountability that computerization presented: 1) "many hands," the problem of attributing moral responsibility ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech for its generous support. A. ...
arXiv:2202.05338v2
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GPs are being blamed for government failures in primary care, say doctors
2021
The BMJ (British Medical Journal)
That certain MPs, journalists, and retired colleagues with no experience working in primary care are stoking these flames instead of calling for more funding is reprehensible." ...
covid vaccinations) more than in June 2019 (23.8). 5 More than half (56%) of the appointments in June that weren't for covid vaccinations were face to face. ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.n2234
pmid:34518166
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Simon Simonse. — Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
2020
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
In drawing on Girard's theory, he also offered a general model of politics relevant not only for Africa (although it is of course based on the local ethnographic particulars), but for more general application ...
One might see this phenomenon as a first, elementary version of the later "social contract" idea between ruler and the ruled, but now in a more embodied, direct sense, not based on a tradition of political ...
doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.29492
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Health workers as Hate Crimes Targets during COVID-19 outbreak in the Americas
2020
Revista de Salud Pública
Healthcare workers have become circumstantial scapegoating targets. ...
The pandemic constitutes a massive crisis that triggers fears and reassuring of diffuse anxieties, which often includes someone to blame. ...
Scapegoating, a term derived from religious rituals (11) , currently implies either blaming a group for misfortunes or disasters occurring in a social environment, or portraying outgroup members as a ...
doi:10.15446/rsap.v22n2.86766
fatcat:57cnc2ahnjgkrfo6jwdedblug4
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Perpetrators
2020
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
This paper provides a partial explanation for this skewed distribution of blame and praise. ...
Blame and praise, on my emancipatory proposal, serve to identify and take a stand against agents of oppression and to recognize and celebrate resisters. ...
and scapegoating. ...
doi:10.5206/fpq/2020.2.7322
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Psychosocial ethical aspects of AIDS
1989
Journal of Medical Ethics
It is a consistent feature of all examples of attributing blame or responsibility for epidemics throughout history that scapegoating of minority groups occurs. ...
(caused by prejudice and triggered by blaming the Chinese for the introduction and spread of disease), and later blaming the same group of immigrants for bubonic plague (34) , and blaming immigrants ...
doi:10.1136/jme.15.2.74
pmid:2746607
pmcid:PMC1375784
fatcat:ivhty4ymwvctxhucafngfrx4pq
Kant's Mature Theory of Punishment, and a First Critique Ideal Abolitionist Alternative
[chapter]
2017
The Palgrave Kant Handbook
But I think that our intuition about the wrongness of scapegoating really has two roots, one having to do with desert, and another having to do with the deception of the public required for scapegoating ...
he cannot give it away of his own accord, that is, by a contract, and so bring it about by a rightful action that he has no rights but only duties; for he would thereby deprive himself of the right to ...
doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54656-2_27
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Snoring and sleep apnoea
1994
BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)
Study leave remains an essential medium for postgraduate training. ...
EDrroR,-David P Coates's letter on study leave' and the abridged paper on study leave for postgraduate trainees2 highlight the problems associated with the funding of discretionary study leave for doctors ...
Sir Cecil Clothier and Mrs Virginia Bottomley stated publicly that no individual person is to be blamed or scapegoated, yet we seem to be the victims ofsome ofthe publicity since the inquiry. ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.308.6934.983b
pmid:8173417
pmcid:PMC2539759
fatcat:qrynxoxk6rga3ek3bxomvnriua
History says no to the policeman's response to AIDS
1986
BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)
Historical precedent says "no." ...
It is a misfortune, not a crime, to contract a disease. ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.293.6562.1589
fatcat:xbi4qbijyjga3hqsl55cyfpxdu
Scandals, Scapegoats, and the Cross: An Interview with René Girard
2010
Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
That trouble arises for no reason at all. It doesn't matter. ...
Girard: You have to spread the impulse to have scapegoating, but the fact that it diminishes with more understanding is, I think, unquestionable. And then it can no longer create the sacred. ...
Your theory would ask us to read that story in a different way, suspecting a crowd phenomenon with elements of ritualized scapegoating. ...
doi:10.5406/dialjmormthou.43.1.0107
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Performing unbelonging in court. Observations from a transnational corporate bribery trial—a dramaturgical approach
2021
Crime, law and social change
The authors further analyze the defense teams' framing of the case, including the framing of the defendants as being scapegoated by the corporation, and of the prosecution as being unfair and illegitimate ...
The authors are also grateful for the valuable comments provided by the anonymous reviewers. ...
While the scapegoating shifted the blame from the corporation to a few individuals (Bachmann et al., 2015 (Bachmann et al., , p. 1129)) , the process of blaming a few selected individuals also constitutes ...
doi:10.1007/s10611-021-09990-x
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Toward a Theory of Organizational Apology: Evidence from the United States and China
2018
Academy of Management Proceedings
Eric Rhodes All rights reserved. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ...
Sometimes blaming of third parties is also found. ...
While there was no express penalty for noncompliance, false statements would lead to the voiding of any contracts with the city (Benner, 2005) . ...
doi:10.5465/ambpp.2018.15228abstract
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