Socio-legal scholars have long been interested in the relationship between law and morality. This article uses a multilevel approach to understanding this relationship by focusing on health care professionals, key actors in an institution that covers broad swaths of social life and that serves...

Social science studies of bioethics demonstrate that ethics are highly contextual, functioning differently across local settings as actors make daily decisions “on the ground.” Sociological studies that demonstrate the key role organizations play in shaping ethical decision-making have...

I estimate the annual local government spending multiplier to range from 2.22 to 0.72 and the accumulated multiplier, which is the total increase of local output per 1 RMB increase of local government spending during 2001-2019, to be 11.8 at the prefecture city level in China, where government...

Since Occupy Wall Street began in New York City on September 17th, the movement has spread offline to hundreds of locations around the globe. Social networking sites have been critical for linking potential supporters and distributing information. In addition to Facebook pages on the Wall Street...