Some confusions around authoritarianism today
Authors: Richards, B.
Journal: Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 88-93
eISSN: 1478-6737
DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2025D000000044
Abstract:There are several sources of confusion in and around authoritarianism today. One is the tendency of authoritarian leadership to confabulate and lie, increasingly to the point where truth criteria cease to be of any relevance. A second is the counter-intuitive convergence between authoritarian and libertarian tendencies, which confuses political debate. And a third is the common conflation of authoritarianism with nationalism, which fails to recognise benign nationalism and adds to the polarisation on which authoritarian leaders thrive.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/41084/
Source: Scopus
ERISA and the Failure of Employers to Perform Their Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from a Survey of Health Plan Administrators.
Authors: Richman, B., Monahan, A., Pfeffer, J. and Singer, S.
Journal: J Law Med Ethics
Pages: 1-7
eISSN: 1748-720X
DOI: 10.1017/jme.2025.10159
Abstract:Employers purchase health benefits for more than 60% of the nonelderly population, making employers both important custodians of employee well-being and important actors in the health care ecosystem. Because employers typically have unilateral control over health and retirement benefits, the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), enacted in 1974, imposes fiduciary obligations on employers when they manage or administer benefits. We provide evidence, from a novel survey of respondents who administer or oversee health benefits for their companies, that many employers appear to neglect even the most basic of their fiduciary obligations to their employees. This neglect may help explain the poor performance of employer plans in controlling costs and providing access to health care, and it suggests that many employers may be vulnerable to liability from ERISA lawsuits.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/41084/
Source: PubMed
Some confusions around authoritarianism today
Authors: Richards, B.
Journal: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 88-93
ISSN: 1478-6737
DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2025D000000044
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/41084/
Source: Web of Science (Lite)
ERISA and the Failure of Employers to Perform Their Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from a Survey of Health Plan Administrators.
Authors: Richman, B., Monahan, A., Pfeffer, J. and Singer, S.
Journal: The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Pages: 1-7
eISSN: 1748-720X
ISSN: 1073-1105
DOI: 10.1017/jme.2025.10159
Abstract:Employers purchase health benefits for more than 60% of the nonelderly population, making employers both important custodians of employee well-being and important actors in the health care ecosystem. Because employers typically have unilateral control over health and retirement benefits, the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), enacted in 1974, imposes fiduciary obligations on employers when they manage or administer benefits. We provide evidence, from a novel survey of respondents who administer or oversee health benefits for their companies, that many employers appear to neglect even the most basic of their fiduciary obligations to their employees. This neglect may help explain the poor performance of employer plans in controlling costs and providing access to health care, and it suggests that many employers may be vulnerable to liability from ERISA lawsuits.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/41084/
Source: Europe PubMed Central
Some confusions around authoritarianism today
Authors: Richards, B.
Journal: Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 88-93
ISSN: 1478-6737
Abstract:There are several sources of confusion in and around authoritarianism today. One is the tendency of authoritarian leadership to confabulate and lie, increasingly to the point where truth criteria cease to be of any relevance. A second is the counter-intuitive convergence between authoritarian and libertarian tendencies, which confuses political debate. And a third is the common conflation of authoritarianism with nationalism, which fails to recognise benign nationalism and adds to the polarisation on which authoritarian leaders thrive.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/41084/
Source: BURO EPrints