No Way Out: Travel Restrictions and Authoritarian Regimes
... the question is whether these restrictions are having their intended effect on their stability. Our analysis indicates that civil rights – the freedoms of association, speech (which includes a free press), and religion – increase significantly when travel policies are relaxed. Autocracies that impose ...
... the question is whether these restrictions are having their intended effect on their stability. Our analysis indicates that civil rights – the freedoms of association, speech (which includes a free press), and religion – increase significantly when travel policies are relaxed. Autocracies that impose ...
Final mode of the receive-accept-sample
... responses people make to closed-ended policy questions and the ideas that are at the top of their heads as they do so. Because it claims that people answer survey questions on the basis of the ideas that are most salient to ...
... responses people make to closed-ended policy questions and the ideas that are at the top of their heads as they do so. Because it claims that people answer survey questions on the basis of the ideas that are most salient to ...
Social Capital and Political Participation in Latin
... social groups.1 Robert Putnam’s influential Bowling Alone (2000), focused on the United States, has turned our attention toward the role of social capital in facilitating richness in the democratic experience, especially in the form of individuals’ involvement in political life. In that widely read ...
... social groups.1 Robert Putnam’s influential Bowling Alone (2000), focused on the United States, has turned our attention toward the role of social capital in facilitating richness in the democratic experience, especially in the form of individuals’ involvement in political life. In that widely read ...
“DENATURALISING THE VISUAL”: THE ESSAY FILM AS
... ontological, speculative and imaginative implications of artistic image strategies as a form of political reasoning. In this regard a case will be made to rethink the disciplinary boundaries between art and politics as modes of critical enquiry and interrogation by problematising a merely scientific ...
... ontological, speculative and imaginative implications of artistic image strategies as a form of political reasoning. In this regard a case will be made to rethink the disciplinary boundaries between art and politics as modes of critical enquiry and interrogation by problematising a merely scientific ...
Models in Psychopathology
... Recent variations of behavioral theory Social learning theory Delay of reinforcement Social modeling ...
... Recent variations of behavioral theory Social learning theory Delay of reinforcement Social modeling ...
From Group Identity to Political Cohesion
... Group identities are central to politics, an inescapable conclusion drawn from decades of political behavior research (Huddy 2003). Partisan identities such as Republican and Democrat in the U.S., Conservative and Labor in the U.K., Social Democrat and Christian Democrat in Germany, or Labor and Li ...
... Group identities are central to politics, an inescapable conclusion drawn from decades of political behavior research (Huddy 2003). Partisan identities such as Republican and Democrat in the U.S., Conservative and Labor in the U.K., Social Democrat and Christian Democrat in Germany, or Labor and Li ...
Myth of the Level Playing Field - University of Missouri School of
... targets, potentially exacerbating the conditions they purport to alleviate. Reformers who believe that unsound policy is being generated as a result of an improperly skewed marketplace of ideas would do better to explore the dynamics of political decisionmaking and persuasion in an effort to determi ...
... targets, potentially exacerbating the conditions they purport to alleviate. Reformers who believe that unsound policy is being generated as a result of an improperly skewed marketplace of ideas would do better to explore the dynamics of political decisionmaking and persuasion in an effort to determi ...
Paper-1, COMPARATIVE POLITICS
... science. But the development of this approach is spread over the whole of the 20 th century. It was towards the end of 19 th century that political scientists had realized the demerits of the traditional approaches. It was as early as 1908 that Graham Wales and A. F. Bentley strongly advocated on th ...
... science. But the development of this approach is spread over the whole of the 20 th century. It was towards the end of 19 th century that political scientists had realized the demerits of the traditional approaches. It was as early as 1908 that Graham Wales and A. F. Bentley strongly advocated on th ...
Instructor`s Manual, Chapter 6
... policy and contribute to policy making. Scientific polling, introduced in the 1930s, not only created greater equality but also provided the gateways through which the public could affect the course of government. Polls are not perfect, but they do open up the democratic process. Although it is cri ...
... policy and contribute to policy making. Scientific polling, introduced in the 1930s, not only created greater equality but also provided the gateways through which the public could affect the course of government. Polls are not perfect, but they do open up the democratic process. Although it is cri ...
Author`s personal copy
... that conservatives were more highly motivated than liberals to avoid a situation that might arouse cognitive dissonance. Some studies involving small samples of college students suggest that the policy preferences of Democrats and Republicans are strongly (and more or less equivalently) influenced by ...
... that conservatives were more highly motivated than liberals to avoid a situation that might arouse cognitive dissonance. Some studies involving small samples of college students suggest that the policy preferences of Democrats and Republicans are strongly (and more or less equivalently) influenced by ...
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... politically homogeneous social worlds, protected from the immediate social experience of people holding divergent political viewpoints. This simple fact, the survival of disagreement, forces a reassessment of (1) the common wisdom suggesting that political homogeneity is the inevitable outcome of co ...
... politically homogeneous social worlds, protected from the immediate social experience of people holding divergent political viewpoints. This simple fact, the survival of disagreement, forces a reassessment of (1) the common wisdom suggesting that political homogeneity is the inevitable outcome of co ...
The 2008 Presidential Campaign: Political Cynicism in the Age of
... The 2008 presidential campaign was the first to play out in the world of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and political blogging—the major Internet-based social media. These social media provide a new form of mediated communication that gives the audience access to on-demand content and the ability to sh ...
... The 2008 presidential campaign was the first to play out in the world of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and political blogging—the major Internet-based social media. These social media provide a new form of mediated communication that gives the audience access to on-demand content and the ability to sh ...
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective
... important in shaping the elites’ attitudes toward industrialization; because human capital is complementary to industrial activity, a high level of human capital makes future gains from industrialization larger relative to the rents from preserving the existing system, thus discouraging blocking by ...
... important in shaping the elites’ attitudes toward industrialization; because human capital is complementary to industrial activity, a high level of human capital makes future gains from industrialization larger relative to the rents from preserving the existing system, thus discouraging blocking by ...
Personality and Social Psychology Review
... An ABM is a simulated multiagent system constructed with a particular goal: to capture key theoretical elements of some social or psychological process (for a review of simulation approaches in social psychology generally, see Hastie & Stasser, 2000). In such a system, each agent typically represent ...
... An ABM is a simulated multiagent system constructed with a particular goal: to capture key theoretical elements of some social or psychological process (for a review of simulation approaches in social psychology generally, see Hastie & Stasser, 2000). In such a system, each agent typically represent ...
Chapter 06: Learning
... C. applying information to understand and evaluate social phenomena D. reviewing information on the Internet to develop a critical opinion on it Difficulty: Easy APA Standard: 1.1 2. Which of the following defines hypothesis? A. idea that proves a theory B. means of explaining social phenomena *C. t ...
... C. applying information to understand and evaluate social phenomena D. reviewing information on the Internet to develop a critical opinion on it Difficulty: Easy APA Standard: 1.1 2. Which of the following defines hypothesis? A. idea that proves a theory B. means of explaining social phenomena *C. t ...
Psychology 40S Final Exam Review Unit 1
... Unit 5B: Other Principles of Cognitive Psychology and Intelligence 1. Define Cognitive Psychology 2. Define Thinking 3. Explain the three aids to solving problems discussed in class – setting sub-goals, representing problems, and rigidity a. Explain Functional Fixedness and the Unusual Use Test 4. D ...
... Unit 5B: Other Principles of Cognitive Psychology and Intelligence 1. Define Cognitive Psychology 2. Define Thinking 3. Explain the three aids to solving problems discussed in class – setting sub-goals, representing problems, and rigidity a. Explain Functional Fixedness and the Unusual Use Test 4. D ...
Authoritarian Attitudes, Democracy, and Policy
... and others (e.g., Rickert 1998) demonstrate that perceptions of threat moderate authoritarian predispositions. In other words, contrary to Altemeyer’s account, it is not that levels of authoritarianism rise under conditions of threat but that the relationship between authoritarianism and various pol ...
... and others (e.g., Rickert 1998) demonstrate that perceptions of threat moderate authoritarian predispositions. In other words, contrary to Altemeyer’s account, it is not that levels of authoritarianism rise under conditions of threat but that the relationship between authoritarianism and various pol ...
Identifying patterns of social and political participation
... Consequently, citizens’ use of influence is of considerable importance, since it enables much more sophisticated effects and can be practised on the everyday basis. It may be assumed that the growing complexity of the society even makes the power based forms of participation somewhat less relevant, ...
... Consequently, citizens’ use of influence is of considerable importance, since it enables much more sophisticated effects and can be practised on the everyday basis. It may be assumed that the growing complexity of the society even makes the power based forms of participation somewhat less relevant, ...
The Role of Qualitative Methods in Political Communication
... scholars have produced qualitative work, and some of it has been very influential, most political communication research is quantitative, and this is the tradition into which new generations of researchers are trained and socialized. Moreover, the assumptions underpinning quantitative research often ...
... scholars have produced qualitative work, and some of it has been very influential, most political communication research is quantitative, and this is the tradition into which new generations of researchers are trained and socialized. Moreover, the assumptions underpinning quantitative research often ...
Public Opinion - Loudoun County Public Schools
... intensity of their opposition to gun control is high. Many members determine who they’ll vote for in part due to a candidate’s position on gun control. This has made them one of America’s most powerful lobbying organizations. Stability: How little, or how much, public opinion changes over time ...
... intensity of their opposition to gun control is high. Many members determine who they’ll vote for in part due to a candidate’s position on gun control. This has made them one of America’s most powerful lobbying organizations. Stability: How little, or how much, public opinion changes over time ...
Popular Music as a Public Relations Resource in Political Campaigns
... songs, opting instead for ready-made popular songs that could be substituted in and out of the campaign as needed.9 As Jodi Larson argues, “After the 1980 campaign, no national candidate would use a campaign song that included a specific platform or even a reference to a candidate’s individual ident ...
... songs, opting instead for ready-made popular songs that could be substituted in and out of the campaign as needed.9 As Jodi Larson argues, “After the 1980 campaign, no national candidate would use a campaign song that included a specific platform or even a reference to a candidate’s individual ident ...
Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
... beliefs that are, for example, socially or economically conservative, but the degree to which these beliefs are rational or correct must be assessed independently of the motivations that drive them (Kruglanski, 1989). Thus, it does not follow from our motivated social– cognitive analysis that politi ...
... beliefs that are, for example, socially or economically conservative, but the degree to which these beliefs are rational or correct must be assessed independently of the motivations that drive them (Kruglanski, 1989). Thus, it does not follow from our motivated social– cognitive analysis that politi ...
Penn List of Books - University of Pennsylvania
... of reasoning puts people in a context without confining them to it, allowing for political imagination to work without sacrificing connections to concrete reality. Arrow, Kenneth. (1963). Social Choice and Individual Values. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley. Examines whether or not a procedure can be put in ...
... of reasoning puts people in a context without confining them to it, allowing for political imagination to work without sacrificing connections to concrete reality. Arrow, Kenneth. (1963). Social Choice and Individual Values. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley. Examines whether or not a procedure can be put in ...
West Virginia University
... intellectual (verbal behavioral) support for this sequential maturation and, according to natural scientists, does so to a greater extent than can other paradigms. Among the fundamental principles of the natural behavior science paradigm are these: The world is a natural product of evolutionary sele ...
... intellectual (verbal behavioral) support for this sequential maturation and, according to natural scientists, does so to a greater extent than can other paradigms. Among the fundamental principles of the natural behavior science paradigm are these: The world is a natural product of evolutionary sele ...
Commentary - SAGE Publications
... the ‘propaganda apparatus’) and/or blinkered (perhaps due to the unavoidably limited character of human knowledge of truth). This, presumably, is why an experientially based concern for social transformation must ‘react upon the theory’: actual experiences of injustice must continuously feed into cr ...
... the ‘propaganda apparatus’) and/or blinkered (perhaps due to the unavoidably limited character of human knowledge of truth). This, presumably, is why an experientially based concern for social transformation must ‘react upon the theory’: actual experiences of injustice must continuously feed into cr ...