Flexicurity has become a prominent policy recommendation in recent years. However, little is known about the actual development of flexicurity in the country most often associated with it – namely Denmark. This is particularly the case for one of the three ‘pillars’ of flexicurity: low levels of job security regulations. This article fills this gap in the scholarly literature. It demonstrates t...

This paper investigates the relationship between energy curtailment regulation and investments in distribution networks in a deregulated electric power system with distributed generation. Curtailment due to the network constraints is the interest of the paper. The network investment can be based on accommodating the energy produced from distributed generation without curtailment; however, a par...

This paper traces the history of lipstick’s social and legal regulation in Western seats of power, from Ur circa 3,500 B.C. to the present-day United States. Sliced in this manner, lipstick’s history emerges as heavily cyclical across the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Western European, English, and American reigns of power. Examination of both the informal social and formal legal regulation of lips...

Having an Institutional Review Board (IRB) review and monitor the use of human subjects is now fundamental to ethical research. Yet social scientists appear increasingly frustrated with the process. This article aims to assist evaluators struggling to understand and work with IRBs. The author theorizes why IRBs frustrate and insists there is only one remedy: We must accept the legitimacy of IRB...

many factors affect privatization of sports clubs. the aim of this research was to identify social and legal factors affecting privatization of sports clubs and to prioritize them with ahp method. for this purpose, the effective factors were collected with library and field study; a decision hierarchy tree was drawn and a questionnaire was designed. consistency rate under 0.1 was a sign of adap...

This paper presents the results from a series of framed field experiments conducted in fishing communities off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The goal is to investigate the relative effectiveness of exogenous regulatory pressure and pro-social emotions in promoting cooperative behavior in a public goods context. The random public revelation of an individual’s contribution and its consequences...