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... peak during the election campaign (waves 1 and 2) and relax thereafter (during wave 3). The problem with this interpretation is that it is not supported by an alternative analysis that focuses on objectively defined agreement based on self-reported opinions within discussion dyads. For the 1,475 dya ...
... peak during the election campaign (waves 1 and 2) and relax thereafter (during wave 3). The problem with this interpretation is that it is not supported by an alternative analysis that focuses on objectively defined agreement based on self-reported opinions within discussion dyads. For the 1,475 dya ...
Basic values and attitudes toward foreign and domestic policies in
... yet been tested rigorously in terms of constraint on policy attitudes. So, we do not know whether political belief systems of ordinary citizens are organized across policy domains by fundamental values. Yet, some facts suggest that there are values that bind together political attitudes of ordinary ...
... yet been tested rigorously in terms of constraint on policy attitudes. So, we do not know whether political belief systems of ordinary citizens are organized across policy domains by fundamental values. Yet, some facts suggest that there are values that bind together political attitudes of ordinary ...
POLITICS AS A SCIENCE (aka Politology)
... am convinced that almost everything that is meaningful about politics has already been said – somewhere by someone and often a long time ago. It is just a matter of finding it and assembling it in a novel manner. This is what I have tried to do here. To those who are long or recently gone, I can onl ...
... am convinced that almost everything that is meaningful about politics has already been said – somewhere by someone and often a long time ago. It is just a matter of finding it and assembling it in a novel manner. This is what I have tried to do here. To those who are long or recently gone, I can onl ...
The 2008 Presidential Campaign: Political Cynicism in the Age of
... Uses and gratifications has been one of the most influential audiencecentered perspectives applied to study media use and effects for more than 35 years. Uses and gratifications emphasizes the individual in the individual-media use-effects relationship. As such, the emphasis is on what people do wit ...
... Uses and gratifications has been one of the most influential audiencecentered perspectives applied to study media use and effects for more than 35 years. Uses and gratifications emphasizes the individual in the individual-media use-effects relationship. As such, the emphasis is on what people do wit ...
Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science
... that most directly examines ideologically controversial topics, and is thus most in need of political diversity. Second, we focus on conservatives as an under-represented group because the data on the prevalence in psychology of different ideological groups is best for the liberalconservative contra ...
... that most directly examines ideologically controversial topics, and is thus most in need of political diversity. Second, we focus on conservatives as an under-represented group because the data on the prevalence in psychology of different ideological groups is best for the liberalconservative contra ...
Nature, Nurture, and Ethnocentrism in the Minnesota Twin Study
... an outcome of natural selection. Using the latest developments in the study of genetics and political attitudes, the goal of the current research is to empirically test Kinder and Kam’s (2009) claim that ‘individual differences in ethnocentrism have a genetic source’ (p. 27). In the current research ...
... an outcome of natural selection. Using the latest developments in the study of genetics and political attitudes, the goal of the current research is to empirically test Kinder and Kam’s (2009) claim that ‘individual differences in ethnocentrism have a genetic source’ (p. 27). In the current research ...
Political Science and Political Theory LONG
... reference is to Erich Kahler, now largely forgotten, whose aesthetic writings and cultural criticism were important for a time in Germany, and who also enjoyed a brief vogue in American exile among the literary public for such writings For the critique of Weber, see excerpts from Erich Kahler, The V ...
... reference is to Erich Kahler, now largely forgotten, whose aesthetic writings and cultural criticism were important for a time in Germany, and who also enjoyed a brief vogue in American exile among the literary public for such writings For the critique of Weber, see excerpts from Erich Kahler, The V ...
Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy
... world and seeks to make progress in designing policies that could help individuals, regions, and countries to achieve greater economic prosperity. Economic theory plays a crucial role in this endeavor, not only because it helps us focus on the most important economic mechanisms, but also because it ...
... world and seeks to make progress in designing policies that could help individuals, regions, and countries to achieve greater economic prosperity. Economic theory plays a crucial role in this endeavor, not only because it helps us focus on the most important economic mechanisms, but also because it ...
The Very Modern Prince - Social Welfare Portal
... Gramsci has done for us is to give us is a profoundly expanded conception of what politics itself is like… that, especially in societies of our kind, the sites on which power is constituted will be enormously varied… that puts directly on the political agenda the questions of moral and intellectual ...
... Gramsci has done for us is to give us is a profoundly expanded conception of what politics itself is like… that, especially in societies of our kind, the sites on which power is constituted will be enormously varied… that puts directly on the political agenda the questions of moral and intellectual ...
“DENATURALISING THE VISUAL”: THE ESSAY FILM AS
... negative effects for any political community. Furthermore, the alleged illusionary and unreal character of the image is contrasted with the spoken and written word as the sole harbour of rationality and intellect. In the Republic Plato famously argues that, as a mimetic medium, the image is unreal, ...
... negative effects for any political community. Furthermore, the alleged illusionary and unreal character of the image is contrasted with the spoken and written word as the sole harbour of rationality and intellect. In the Republic Plato famously argues that, as a mimetic medium, the image is unreal, ...
1 The social control of political participation: Conflict and contagion
... or, more likely, that it is simply not important; and (2) by voting (and communicating intent thereof), an individual is expressing a strict preference for voting over nonvoting, with indifference between voting for copartisan and antipartisan. The assumption of the conflict model is that individua ...
... or, more likely, that it is simply not important; and (2) by voting (and communicating intent thereof), an individual is expressing a strict preference for voting over nonvoting, with indifference between voting for copartisan and antipartisan. The assumption of the conflict model is that individua ...
Lecture 1: Introduction
... • Why demonstration did took place-Davos, Seattle • Why US refused to sign Kyoto treaty. ...
... • Why demonstration did took place-Davos, Seattle • Why US refused to sign Kyoto treaty. ...
Political Business Cycles 40 Years after Nordhaus
... leading to more unemployment. Unemployment and inflation are thus subject to cyclical fluctuations linked to the rhythm of elections and these fluctuations are called “political business cycles” (PBCs). 3 Without going into a detailed presentation of the history of thought, it is interesting to see ...
... leading to more unemployment. Unemployment and inflation are thus subject to cyclical fluctuations linked to the rhythm of elections and these fluctuations are called “political business cycles” (PBCs). 3 Without going into a detailed presentation of the history of thought, it is interesting to see ...
Political Efficacy, Voting Behavior and Partisanship among
... frequently in research, but they have not been as useful as more specific efficacy measures in predicting what people will do under more specific circumstances (Bandura, 1997; Maddux, 1995). In contrast to Skinner, Bandura (1) recognizes that chance encounters and fortuitous events often shape one's ...
... frequently in research, but they have not been as useful as more specific efficacy measures in predicting what people will do under more specific circumstances (Bandura, 1997; Maddux, 1995). In contrast to Skinner, Bandura (1) recognizes that chance encounters and fortuitous events often shape one's ...
Nature, Nurture, and Ethnocentrism in the Minnesota Twin Study
... an outcome of natural selection. Using the latest developments in the study of genetics and political attitudes, the goal of the current research is to empirically test Kinder and Kam’s (2009) claim that ‘individual differences in ethnocentrism have a genetic source’ (p. 27). In the current research ...
... an outcome of natural selection. Using the latest developments in the study of genetics and political attitudes, the goal of the current research is to empirically test Kinder and Kam’s (2009) claim that ‘individual differences in ethnocentrism have a genetic source’ (p. 27). In the current research ...
Week Two
... ◦ "The past became dead weight on the government" Uganda (instrumental-hierarchical) ◦ The absoluteness of the hierarchical system as "instrument"- strong resistance to the change in political institution, but very flexible to other changes ◦ "The prerequisite for accepting any innovation on the pol ...
... ◦ "The past became dead weight on the government" Uganda (instrumental-hierarchical) ◦ The absoluteness of the hierarchical system as "instrument"- strong resistance to the change in political institution, but very flexible to other changes ◦ "The prerequisite for accepting any innovation on the pol ...
Political Participation by Race - American Studies @ The University
... city Chicago that the relationship between social class and organizational participation is not as strong for blacks.7 Lower-income blacks are far more likely than their white counterparts to belong to organizations, particularly those with political and religious affiliations. Not only are low-inc ...
... city Chicago that the relationship between social class and organizational participation is not as strong for blacks.7 Lower-income blacks are far more likely than their white counterparts to belong to organizations, particularly those with political and religious affiliations. Not only are low-inc ...
Framing Employment Relations in Western Europe
... Furthermore, neomercantilist thinking is also influential for regionalist approaches in international politics such as the justification of a common trade policy for the European Union (Hurrell, 1995; van Apeldoorn, 2002). This emphasis of a regional or national interest is described by the second neo ...
... Furthermore, neomercantilist thinking is also influential for regionalist approaches in international politics such as the justification of a common trade policy for the European Union (Hurrell, 1995; van Apeldoorn, 2002). This emphasis of a regional or national interest is described by the second neo ...
Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Public Institutions
... The neoliberal way of thinking about human society in terms of market principles has become ubiquitous in contemporary modernity. It informs the common sense of elite decision making in both national and international institutions. Yet an approach to institutional design that makes market principles ...
... The neoliberal way of thinking about human society in terms of market principles has become ubiquitous in contemporary modernity. It informs the common sense of elite decision making in both national and international institutions. Yet an approach to institutional design that makes market principles ...
The Third Face of Social Capital
... presidential policy output and presidential support, even after controlling for the kinds of resources that are likely to lead to greater individual information. Greater use of relevant policy information by the civically involved, then, is not just a function of individual resources, but ostensibly ...
... presidential policy output and presidential support, even after controlling for the kinds of resources that are likely to lead to greater individual information. Greater use of relevant policy information by the civically involved, then, is not just a function of individual resources, but ostensibly ...
The Impact of Political Advertising on Knowledge
... are informative, they seemed to inform the most aware and involved respondents just as much or more than they did the least informed, especially after some minimal threshold of exposure was established. In addition, they found that exposure to ads can alter candidate preferences. Furthermore, they f ...
... are informative, they seemed to inform the most aware and involved respondents just as much or more than they did the least informed, especially after some minimal threshold of exposure was established. In addition, they found that exposure to ads can alter candidate preferences. Furthermore, they f ...
English Link - Vanderbilt University
... presented in Figure 2. The estimated effect of equal women’s support for direct government each independent variable on the dependent does not differ significantly from that of men. variable is represented by a dot. If the dot and We do find, however, that respondents its corresponding bars, which i ...
... presented in Figure 2. The estimated effect of equal women’s support for direct government each independent variable on the dependent does not differ significantly from that of men. variable is represented by a dot. If the dot and We do find, however, that respondents its corresponding bars, which i ...
Popular Music as a Public Relations Resource in Political Campaigns
... the possibility of a world in which content may be achieved without rhetorical intervention, that one may do the work of politics without intervening rhetorical discourses. The approach is exemplified in commonplace assertions that call for politicians to stop the “rhetoric” and get to work. During ...
... the possibility of a world in which content may be achieved without rhetorical intervention, that one may do the work of politics without intervening rhetorical discourses. The approach is exemplified in commonplace assertions that call for politicians to stop the “rhetoric” and get to work. During ...
chapter 3
... horrible state it left on the side of the victim and family, and ask the same question. However, this is pushed aside, as if two murders do not exist, but only one-the death penalty that would be carried out against the murderer. 34. No doubt corporal punishment contradicts sense of honor and human ...
... horrible state it left on the side of the victim and family, and ask the same question. However, this is pushed aside, as if two murders do not exist, but only one-the death penalty that would be carried out against the murderer. 34. No doubt corporal punishment contradicts sense of honor and human ...
Nigeria and Election Crises: Debating the Causes
... is like Nigeria is not capable of conducting free and fair election that will not end in chaos and violence. However, what are the causes of this nightmare? Here in lies the debate. Some scholars argue that the problem is caused by ethnicity, others claim it is a problem of modernization while some ...
... is like Nigeria is not capable of conducting free and fair election that will not end in chaos and violence. However, what are the causes of this nightmare? Here in lies the debate. Some scholars argue that the problem is caused by ethnicity, others claim it is a problem of modernization while some ...