Common Commitment

Agosto 2026

Caring for Creation Together: When Stewardship Becomes a Spiritual Practice

Agosto 18th, 2026|Tag: , |

Hardin's conclusion was bleak: left to themselves, people will exhaust whatever they share, so the only way out is to privatize the resource or hand it to the state to police. For decades, this assumption framed the debate. We are selfish by nature, the thinking went, and shared goods need a fence or a fine to survive. But the story turned out to be more hopeful.

The Electoral Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers

Agosto 11th, 2026|Tag: , |

While the benefits of CCTs are well established, the literature on the electoral gains derived from CCT implementation has found varying results regarding the response from voters after its introduction. A metastudy by Araújo finds generally positive impacts from CCTs on incumbents’ vote share, but articles such as Imai et al. for the case of Mexico document no effects on incumbent support or even electoral turnout

Intellectual Care: The Practice of Care Ethics in Higher Education

Agosto 11th, 2026|Tag: , |

Care cannot be relegated to the home and the private sphere, nor to specific groups of people; care can and ought to be practiced by all, in many different areas of life – also those areas that we do not conventionally associate with care, such as university institutions. With this in mind, the aim of this study has been to answer the question of how we can recognise and understand the practice of care at university institutions.

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