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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Political extremism"”.
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Theories of Political Extremism: Empirical Tests in Rural Illinois
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From Opinion Dynamics to Collective Action: How Identity-Based Tolerance Leads to Political Extremism
… theories attribute the recent surge in political extremism to mechanisms of opinion “homophily” (i.e., like-minded individuals interact more while dissimilar ones might distance) and “assimilation (i.e., interactions homogenize opinions),” which collectively suggest a social world …
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Beleaguered resonance: Loyalist entrenchment and division in the early troubles, 1963–1985
… external forces that incited Ulster Protestant political responses from the premiership of Terence O’Neill, beginning in 1963, to the 1985 signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Through an extrapolation of socioeconomic class dynamics, and geographical imperatives informed by such source material …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… discourse of Letra muerta (1984) links political extremism with the contagion of human bodies and the body politic. Silence and isolation ""cure"" the protagonist's unruly behavior; likewise, the dominant discursive practice of Spain's political transition from dictatorship to democracy …
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Voluntary association membership as a residual of status inconsistency
… reactions, most notably, the expression of political extremism and the desire for social change. In addition, past research suggests that voluntary association membership may serve as an integrative mechanism at both the social psychological and the sociological levels. The relationship …
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How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life
… to overestimate the degree of polarization and political extremism. Such exaggerated perceptions of polarization are widespread, but we know little about their effects on our society. Existing studies on perceived polarization have tended to focus on its effects on political attitudes and …
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The Chinese in San Francisco and the Minig Region of California 1848-1858
… an integral part of the social, economic, and political life of the burgeoning new state, and what transpired between the years of 1848 and 1858 in large measure set the tone and determined the nature of racial conflicts that succeeding generations of Californians would follow.</p> <p>The …
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Représentations de la violence révolutionnaire dans la littérature et le cinéma français (1928-1986)
… idealists seeking personal rejuvenation through political violence. Moreover, I show how those works are a reflection of major trends in French cultural and political history during specific time-periods such as the inter-war period, the occupation of France by Nazi Germany or the Algerian War of …
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Blackshirts and White Wigs: Reflections on Public Order Law and the Political Activism of the British Union of Fascists
… its roots were established in the inter-war political scene. The violence provoked by Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) was one of the stimulating factors behind the enactment of the Public Order Act 1936. This Act significantly strengthened the powers of the police to …