Towards post-democracy: shifting responsibilities and facilitating dispute resolution under the British neoliberal state by Lamsdale, S

“…This investigation is approached through Hobbesian social contract theory, which contends that the State must enable its citizens to resolve their conflicts through the public legal system. …”

The quality of society and happiness: fairness, trust, and community in China by Knight, J, Gunatilaka, R

“…The evidence of the paper is generally consistent with the broader argument that an informal social contract constrains antisocial behaviour and improves wellbeing in ways little studied by economists.…”

Toward a “two-war legion”: renegotiating First World War memory in the British and American legions, 1938-1946 by Garber, A

“…Through a close reading of two organisational periodicals – the <em>British Legion Journal</em> and the <em>American Legion Magazine</em> – published from 1938 through 1946, this study examines how conceptualisations of duty and service, comradeship, and the social contract that were anchored in the First World War shifted as the Second unfolded. …”

Security, citizenship, and the politics of reform in Jamaica by Campbell, Y

“…The local practices that inform the social order of the garrisons are decidedly in conflict with, and contest, the state’s legal-rational institutions, calling its legitimacy and the veracity of the social contract – derived from Rousseau – into question. …”

Keuangan Islam untuk Wong Cilik (Miskin) by Abdul Mughni

“…It is the combination of the social contract, business, and cooperation. It starts from social akad, followed by the business and commercial contract, and the last is the risk solving the problem. …”
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Testing the Effectiveness of CSR Dimensions for Small Business Entrepreneurs by Nor Hadi, Udin Udin

“…Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) implementation for Small Business Entrepreneurs (SMEs), besides as a social contract implementation, is also an effort to increase legitimacy. …”
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The Process for Provision of Humanitarian Aid and Sustainable Peace and Development in Central Equatorial and the Other States in South Sudan: Post 2005 to 2020 by Chaplain Kenyi Wani

“…The democratic system that the national government of South Sudan advocated was not based on principles of good governance and on the engagement of civil society organizations, which are the custodian of the social contract between the citizen and the national government. …”
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Pitirim Sorokin’s sociology and German jurisprudence by A. A. Kraevsky

“…The classic school of natural law is represented by the social contract theory and corresponds to the purposeful organization of groups. …”
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The Devils, “Distortion of Ideas”, and Dostoevsky’s Artistic Principles by Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya

“…In fact, Shatov’s theory takes to its logical conclusion the fragment on the evolution of the forms of governance in Jean Jacque Rousseau’s The Social Contract and of Rousseau’s ideas of war as a religious enterprise. …”
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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America.(Inequality, Social Conflict and Trade Unions in the USA) by Antonio Lettieri

“…The fall of the ‘social contract’ is the basic element of the crisis of the American social and economic model. …”
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Constitutional legitimacy: Sharia Law, Secularism and the Social Compact by Zia Akhtar

“…It needs an exposition of thought that takes account of the enlightenment in Europe which led to the social contract theory in the 18th century. This theory rejects the narrow interpretation of divine authority and presents the jurist with a challenge to make modernize the laws. …”
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Civil society and medical product access in Africa: Lessons from COVID-19 by Janet L. Wale, Kawaldip Sehmi, Regina Kamoga, Robert Ssekubugu

“…We highlight the importance of a meaningful role for civil society in improving access to well-regulated quality medical products in Africa; to support and be part of a regional social contract approach following the access issues that have been particularly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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The quest for service delivery: The case of a rural district municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa by Mulatu F. Zerihun, Mariann P. Mashingo

“…Setting: This study is framed on the ideals of theory of social contract that states the relationship between the state and society. …”
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Evaluation as institution: a contractarian argument for needs-based economic evaluation by Wolf H. Rogowski

“…The use of needs-based economic evaluation methods for coverage determination can be interpreted as institutions for conflict resolution as far as they use consented criteria to ensure the social contract’s sustainability and avoid implicit rationing or unaffordable contribution rates. …”
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Social accountability: a survey of perceptions and evidence of its expression at a Sub Saharan African university by Galukande Moses, Nakasujja Noeline, Sewankambo Nelson K

“…However there are significant short comings in the ways doctors are educated with respect to the social contract between medicine and society. Being socially accountable in the context of a medical school is to conduct health, research and training activities in such a way that best prioritises the health needs of the people served. …”
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Formation of Productive Innovative Entrepreneurship in Conditions of Limited Access Order on the Example of Russian «Resource-Type» Regions by Igor S. Pyzhev, Vladislav N. Rutskiy

“…In order to form a new type of social contract between government, society and business with an institutional environment of order more «open» for an access to political and economic trades, it is more reasonable to transit to the mobilization model of the «triple helix» building the relevant relations within the development institutes of the Russian regions (strategic partnership of science and education, business and government, and the population).…”
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Global health and national borders: the ethics of foreign aid in a time of financial crisis by Johri Mira, Chung Ryoa, Dawson Angus, Schrecker Ted

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Consequentialist, relational, human rights, and social contract approaches were considered. Responsibilities to provide international assistance were seen as significant by all four theories and place limits on the scope of acceptable national autonomy. …”
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The concept of partnershıp work ın vocatıonal educatıon ınstıtutıons by Piriyeva Tarana Zakir

“…The concepts of "natural law" and "social contract", which emerged in the XVI-XVII centuries, are undoubtedly of interest in considering this problem. …”
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Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem by Rudina Lipi, Ilirjan Lipi, Evis Kumi, Etleva Leskaj

“…From the research point of view, regardless of the moderation made by the civil society for the awareness of the social contract as well as the transparency of the economic activity of the municipalities, the citizens' awareness about the nature and problems of the provision of public goods still remains a concern. …”
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CONCEPTUAL DELIMITATIONS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by Ienciu Ionel-Alin, Popa Irimie Emil

“…Thus, we can state we include ourselves within social corporatism, slightly close to social institutionalism, which is characteristic to developed countries, giving a particular importance to social contract and relations between entity and society. …”
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