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Balsiger, Philip
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- PublicationMétadonnées seulementTax incentives in favour of public utility in Switzerland : an incomplete debate ?(2019-5-22)
;Lambelet, Alexandre; ;Carnac, RomainHonegger, Caroline - PublicationMétadonnées seulementHow Do Ordinary Swiss People Represent and Engage with Environmental Issues? Grappling with Cultural Repertoires(2019-6-18)
; ;Lorenzini, JasmineSahakian, MarlyneThis paper studies how ordinary people in Switzerland represent and engage with environmental issues in daily practices. Bringing together conceptual developments in cultural sociology and social practice theory, the paper argues that cultural repertoires strongly shape how representations and forms of engagement play out. It identifies two main repertoires of social and environmental change: adaptation and transformation. The adaptation repertoire is reformist and aligned with individualism and the capitalist growth-paradigm; the transformation repertoire consists of a critique of the market society and calls for systemic change. Using qualitative in-depth interviews and a random survey of residents of Western Switzerland, the analyses show that most people’s representations and engagements with environmental issues relate to the dominant repertoire of adaptation, which appears to be very compatible with existing social practices. Although people hint at limits to the adaptation repertoire, only very few of our study participants relate to the transformative repertoire. - PublicationMétadonnées seulementPhilanthropy, tax expenditures and competitive neutrality. What are the dilemmas facing tax administration employees ?(2018-11-22)
;Lambelet, Alexandre; ;Carnac, RomainHonegger, Caroline - PublicationMétadonnées seulement
- PublicationMétadonnées seulementMoral Struggles in Markets: The Fight Against Battery Cages and the Rise of Cage-Free Eggs in Switzerland(2016-11-8)Practices within markets are widely regulated and sometimes contested on the basis of moral judgments. Moral entrepreneurs challenge markets and market practices while firms and industry actors defend them, leading to moral struggles opposing different orders of worth. Based on an historical case study, this paper develops a theoretical framework to study moral struggles in markets as social and political processes around commensurability. It identifies three core arenas in which moral struggles play out: ideas, where the morality of specific practices itself is contested and actors ground their moral claims in different orders for legitimation; the economy, where the market viability of changing moral standards is at stake; and politics, where commensuration reflects political power struggles. Through an in-depth socio-historical analysis of the fight against battery cages in Swiss egg production in the 1970s and 1980s, the study fleshes out how this moral struggle played out along these dimensions, focusing on the competing discourses, strategies, and tactics of the main moral entrepreneurs and industry associations.