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Hostility between rival political partisans, referred to as affective polarization, has increased in the United States over the last several decades generating considerable interest in its reduction. The current study examines two distinct sets of factors that potentially reduce affective polarization, drawn respectively from a group-based and a policy-based model of its origins. Specifically, we contrast the degree to which warm social relations and policy compromise reduce affective polarization. In two experimental studies (N = 937), respondents read a mock news story about an observed interaction between Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, and Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader. The leaders either interact in a warm or hostile manner and independently compromise, or fail to compromise, on immigration matters. In both studies, warm leader relations reduced affective polarization whereas policy compromise did not. We consider the implications of these findings for the study of affective polarization and its reduction.

To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis-dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. InThe Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is so important, what stands in the way of achieving it, and how citizens can make defensible compromises more likely. They urge politicians to focus less on campaigning and more on governing. In a new preface, the authors reflect on the state of compromise in Congress since the book's initial publication. Calling for greater cooperation in contemporary politics,The Spirit of Compromisewill interest everyone who cares about making government work better for the good of all.

Evolutionary, neuroscientific, and cognitive perspectives in psychology have converged on the idea that some attitudes are moralized—a distinctive characteristic. Moralized attitudes reorient behavior from maximizing gains to adhering to rules. Here, I examine a political consequence of this tendency. In three studies, I measure attitude moralization and examine how it relates to approval of political compromise. I find that moralized attitudes lead citizens to oppose compromises, punish compromising politicians, and forsake material gains. These patterns emerge on economic and noneconomic issues alike and identify a psychological phenomenon that contributes to intractable political disputes.

COVID-19 restrictions have transitioned in-person qualitative research interviews to virtual platforms. The purpose of the current article is to detail some benefits and concessions derived from our experiences of using Zoom to interview men about their intimate partner relationship breakdowns and service providers who work with men to build better relationships. Three benefits; 1) Rich therapeutic value, 2) There’s no place like home, and 3) Reduced costs to extend recruitment reach and inclusivity, highlighted Zoom’s salutary value, the data richness afforded by being interviewed from home, and the potential for cost-effectively progressing qualitative study designs. In particular, reduced labour and travel costs made viable wider reaching participant recruitment and multi-site data collection. The concessions; 1) Being there differently, 2) Choppy purviews and 3) Preparing and pacing, and adjusting to the self-stream revealed the need for interviewers to nimbly adjust to circumstances outside their direct control. Included were inherent challenges for adapting to diverse interviewee locations, technology limits and discordant audio-visual feeds. Amongst these concessions there was resignation that many in-person interview nuances were lost amid the virtual platform demanding unique interviewer skills to compensate some of those changes. Zoom interviews will undoubtedly continue post COVID-19 and attention should be paid to emergent ethical and operational issues.

In this paper, I propose to define the properties of a new pragmatic regime of action, which I have appointed as the « regime of the arrangement ». After a review of some work on regime of action developed from the perspective of pragmatic sociology, I underlined the importance of faces of arrangement in different areas of social life. By pointing out the semantic ambiguity of the arrangement, I have been able to identify the provisions, resources and practical modalities that allow me to consider it as a hybrid regime that is positioned beyond the familiar, but below the public.

The scope of application of the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCTD) is defined as ‘delicate compromises between the legal traditions of different Member States’. These compromises are the results of the alignment of various national models of regulation of the unfairness control of contract terms based on different approaches (market oriented approach or consumer/weaker-party-protection approach). In that sense, the scope of application of the UCTD is the reflection of some kind of balancing between various goals it was meant to achieve – the establishment and the functioning of the internal market based on free competition, private autonomy, freedom of contracting and ensuring, at the same time, a high level of consumer protection when entering into consumer contracts. However, a question arises whether all those compromises, negotiated over thirty years ago, when the rules on the scope of application of the UCTD were drafted, could even today be regarded as the optimum balance between the values the UCTD was meant to protect. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has up to now been in situations, in as many as several hundreds of cases, to interpret the UCTD, including its provisions on the scope of application. The text analyses the current trends in the interpretations of the scope of application of the UCTD in the case law of the ECJ. The main goal has been to highlight the arguments by which the Court has interpreted the Directive’s scope of application and to see whether there are any new tendencies in the case law of the ECJ when interpreting the UCTD by showing that, in practice, both its personal and material scopes of application have changed, and if that is the case, in what direction these changes are going.

As organizations confront a continuously evolving threat landscape, advanced adversarial techniques are increasingly capable of evading traditional continuous monitoring, allowing attackers to remain concealed within environments for extended periods. Industry studies report an average detection time exceeding six months, with many compromises first discovered by third parties rather than internally. Compromise Assessment, a proactive approach to determine if an environment is or has been compromised, has emerged as a way to uncover these threats. However, existing practices remain fragmented, are often conflated with threat hunting, and continue to lack a standardized methodological foundation. Together, these issues, combined with the absence of clear CA frameworks, undermine practitioners’ ability to provide consistent and reliable assurance in answering the central question of whether an environment is or has been compromised. To address these challenges, this research introduces PROID, a novel, comprehensive, and data-driven Compromise Assessment framework. PROID integrates Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting through a multi-layered analytical approach, combining signature-based and signature-less hunting, automated pattern recognition, and human-led analysis. In a simulated enterprise environment, PROID was tested against thirty-one MITRE ATT&CK techniques spanning ten tactics across host, network, and application layers. The framework successfully detected all thirty-one techniques, including persistence, defense evasion, and anti-forensics behaviors that other methodologies did not consistently identify. These results demonstrate PROID’s breadth of detection and its effectiveness in unifying diverse analysis methods within the framework to reach the desired goal. Beyond technical performance, PROID establishes a standardized and reproducible basis for Compromise Assessment, addressing ambiguity with threat hunting and offering organizations a practical means of conducting periodic assurance of compromise status. Its integration with incident response processes and its emphasis on scope definition and telemetry baselining make it a valuable reference model to complement real-time monitoring and strengthen organizational resilience against advanced threats.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantage of a combinatory methodology presented in this study. The paper suggests that the comparison with results of previously developed methods is in high agreement. Design/methodology/approach This paper introduces a combined compromise decision-making algorithm with the aid of some aggregation strategies. The authors have considered a distance measure, which originates from grey relational coefficient and targets to enhance the flexibility of the results. Hence, the weight of the alternatives is placed in the decision-making process with three equations. In the final stage, an aggregated multiplication rule is employed to release the ranking of the alternatives and end the decision process. Findings The authors described a real case of choosing logistics and transportation companies in France from a supply chain project. Some comparisons such as sensitivity analysis approach and comparing to other studies and methods provided to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm. Originality/value The algorithm has a unique structure among MCDM methods which is presented for the first time in this paper.

Research summary: We advance the concept of organization-stakeholder fit (O-S fit) to explain cooperative behavior between an organization and its stakeholders. O-S fit describes the compatibility that exists between an organization and a stakeholder when their characteristics are well matched. We highlight two dimensions of O-S fit: value congruence, or the supplementary fit of organizational and stakeholder values, and strategic complementarity, or the complementary fit of strategic needs and resources. For each dimension, we detail the unique relational factors—including core elements of trust, predictability, attraction/exchange, and communication—that motivate cooperation. We then explicate the ways in which value congruence and strategic complementarity dynamically interrelate over time. Finally, we consider how organization-stakeholder misfit may result in alternative relational behaviors, such as conflict or compromise. Managerial summary: We develop a new way of thinking about the relationship between organizations and stakeholders. Recognizing that positive relationships require a degree of fit or compatibility, we argue that cooperative behavior between an organization and its stakeholders is maximized when relational partners share both core values and strategic priorities. We explain that high fit along these two dimensions increases trust, relational predictability, attraction/exchange, and communication. We also describe how positive relationships might be formed with fit along only one dimension, and how negative relationships might result in the presence of misfit. Ultimately, we suggest that managers who want to foster positive relationships with stakeholders should concentrate on aligning their values and priorities, rather than simply concentrating on one or the other.