This paper analyzes abuse of authority in a principal-supervisor-agent hierarchy under moral hazard. We characterize …

identity crises and crises of control. We will argue that a better understanding of the nature of capitalism could open new …

an agent and his principle. The normative theory of agency and the positive theory of agency represent theory sphere of …

We give more conceptual flesh and bones to the interconnections between social structures and individual agency by … processes. The case-study points to: (i) the importance of tracing capability deprivations back to weak political agency, (ii …

assumptions about the nature of human agency. Purposive individual action is seen as instrumentally desirable as well as … potentially radical and transformatory. Through participation in collective resource management it is claimed that people can re … structuration, governmentality and gendered empowerment to explore understandings of how individual human agency shapes and is …

In this paper I aim to improve the theory and practice of participation in local, grassroots, or micro …-development initiatives. First, I classify weaker and stronger types of participation and, in relation to these accounts, I propose and … explain an ideal of deliberative participation derived from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. Second, in …

-being in the context of the family. I focus on Sen's distinction between well-being and agency, and argue that from the … perspective of women's movements and related social movements, the role of agency has so far been unduly neglected in social …