Landcare on the Poverty-Protection Interface in an Asian Watershed by Dennis P. Garrity, Victor B. Amoroso, Samuel Koffa, Delia Catacutan, Gladys Buenavista, Paul Fay, William Dar

“…Institutional innovations improved resource management, resulting in an effective social contract to protect the natural biodiversity of the park. …”
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Citizenship and Religious Freedoms in Post-Revolutionary Egypt by Mohamed Fahmy Menza

“…The majority of the social and political forces that spearheaded and actively participated in the 2011 and 2013 waves of uprisings catapulted the demands to reestablish ‘citizenship’ as one of the main foundations of a new social contract aiming at redefining state–society relations in a new Egypt. …”
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Fyodor Dostoevsky and America: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks and Issues of Calvinist Theology by Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya

“…Consequently, in full logical accord with the ideas of Rousseau in The Social Contract that theocracy means representing the national character of a people in the image of a god, America creates a religion of itself as a god. …”
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Engaging Religion with Pragmatism: The Singapore State’s Management of Social Issues and Religious Tensions in the 1980s by Mohammad Alami Musa

“…The state’s exercise of authority could be justified by the social contract that citizens had presumably entered. …”
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FLOATING STATE: PERGULATAN NEGARA PASCA-KOLONIAL DAN REZIM NEOLIBERAL STUDI ATAS INDONESIA PASCA ORDE BARU by , Adde Marup Wirasenja, SIP., , Prof. Dr. Purwo Santoso, M.A.

“…Far from the imagination of social-contract sholars that inspiring the development and the successed of Western Liberal Democracy, the market construction within the system of global capitalism has blocked the processes in post-colonial states, particularly in the states which are highly depended to the system. …”

Analisis Strategi Corporate Social Responsibility PT Freeport Indonesia by , Wendy Darman, , Dr. Wakhid Slamet Ciptono, MBA., MPM., Ph.D.

“…Because the direct and indirect presence of the corporate at the community is a social contract. Therefore, the company has an important role to holding business ethics in operating, so that corporate responsibility is not only done to the owner (shareholders) but also stakeholders (stakeholdersâ�� orientation) or the so called Social Responsibility. …”

Political mobilisation, violence and control in the townships of the Vaal Triangle, South Africa, c.1976-1986 by Rueedi, F

“…Councillors were demarcated as a collective group that was perceived to be violating the social contract and were regarded as being obstacles to meaningful political change. …”

Bringing together the Essay and the Second Treatise: d’Holbach interpreter of Locke by Sciuto, R

“…While rejecting the Rousseauian notion of a state of nature intended as a historicalperiod when human beings lived outside society, d’Holbach inherits from Locke the idea that particular polities are the result of a tacit,constantly renewed social contract. As the products of a covenant, governments must pursue the preservation and best interests of the‘community’ or ‘Nation’, as Locke and d’Holbach would respectively call it, prolonged failure to do so necessarily resulting in their loss oflegitimacy and ultimately paving the way to revolution. …”

On the Status of Rights by Liam Butchart

“…Rights exist, with the stipulation that they are constructed under social contracts that aim for equality of application. …”
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Distanciamiento ilustrado en las argumentaciones deconstructoras de Rousseau by Francisco Javier Higuero

“…However, when Rousseau presented in The Social Contract his theory of the General Will, he developed argumentative strategies directed to overcome the isolationist connotations of the state of nature and to deconstruct the binary dichotomy that exists between abstract rationality and unmediated experience.…”
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International Consensus Statement on Public Involvement and Engagement with Data-Intensive Health Research by Mhairi Aitken, Mary Tully, Carol Porteous, Sarah Cunningham-Burley

“…Conclusion/Implications The emergence of data intensive health research and the importance of the social contract upon which it relies, demands that we move beyond rhetorical commitments and engage anew with clearly stated principles to build PI\&E into data-intensive health research at all levels.…”
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From the Myth of Level Playing Fields to the Reality of a Finite Planet; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United St... by Ronald Labonté

“…Third, pre-distribution inequalities (those arising from market activities before government tax and transfer measures apply) are still increasing as labour’s power to wrestle global capital into some ameliorative social contract diminishes. Fourth, there are finite limits to a planet on the cusp of multiple environmental crises. …”
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نظريات التحديث الأوروبية وانعكاساتها في الفكر الاقتصادي العربي المعاصر by توفيق الداود

“…However, it has not gone beyond the point of influenced to the point of being influencing or to the point of action, efficiency and independence or even to the point of developing a social and economic system that could imitate the estrangement with everything that may obstruct the establishment of a new kind of social contract that would move their societies from a deteriorating situation to a situation of recovery and achieve a civilization project.…”
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La dialéctica feminista de la ciudadanía Feminist dialectic of citizenship by Sonia Reverter Bañón

“…In this paper I suggest that the two are in fact the same paradox, which in turn refers to the equality-difference binarism that operates by structuring the liberal-patriarchal debate on equity in the social contract. Feminism must climb out of this trap in order to offer a new concept of citizenship in which women do not have to decide between equality and difference, or between justice and care.…”
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Power and freedom: Reflecting on the relationship by Johan Zaaiman

“…However the option of freedom to choose one’s own preferences is constrained by a social contract that guarantees and limits freedom. In contrast, power could interfere with freedom by eliminating specific actions or frustrating others from choosing actions or by not suppressing obstacles in this regard. …”
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Corruption in healthcare services and the game theory model by Evaggelia Andreadaki, Athena Kalokairinou-Anagnostopoulou

“…The fight against corruption requires a transition to a new “Social Contract” with eagerness, resolute determination by political leaders, multi-sectoral interventions at legal/managerial level, and coordination of the efforts of all with a sense of esprit de corps.…”
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نظريات التحديث الأوروبية وانعكاساتها في الفكر الاقتصادي العربي المعاصر by توفيق الداود

“…However, it has not gone beyond the point of influenced to the point of being influencing or to the point of action, efficiency and independence or even to the point of developing a social and economic system that could imitate the estrangement with everything that may obstruct the establishment of a new kind of social contract that would move their societies from a deteriorating situation to a situation of recovery and achieve a civilization project.…”
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Impact of Financial Management Practices on Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises – Legitimacy Theory Perspectives by Tharmini T., Lakshan A.M.I.

“…SMEs practice important FMPs to obtain the society's impression as social responsible organizations (in terms of legitimacy within ‘social contract’). Accordingly, application of FMPs aims to legitimise company behaviour by ensuring the profitability, survival and growth to influence the society’s perceptions about the SMEs by way of higher number of employments, use of domestic raw materials and payment of taxes. …”
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Envejecimiento activo y ciudadanía senior by Santiago Cambero Rivero, Artemio Baigorri Agoiz

“…Thus, senior citizenship is present and future in changing societies where a new social contract of individual and vital responsibility will be necessary to cope the political, economic, technological and demographic challenges.…”
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Pour une géographie de la démocratie by Michel Bussi

“…It also must be able to propose a global and comprehensive method to study various types of cooperation between various actors, because the territorial (spatial) mediation still remains a sine qua non condition to any kind of social contract.…”
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