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The Cognitive Underpinnings of Ideological Thinking
… atrocities that can be committed in the name of ideological groups and causes. While philosophers and historians have developed rich accounts of the societal factors shaping the forces behind participation in collective ideologies, there has been remarkably little rigorous scientific …
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Geometric Possibility, Ideological Parsimony, and Monistic Substantivalism
… claim over dualists is that their view is more ideologically parsimonious than dualism because monists can do without a primitive notion of location. In this paper I provide an argument that undercuts some of the theoretical edge that monists claim over dualists. The assumption that the monist …
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The Beleaguered Party: Ideological Parties in Adverse Environments
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Essays on elections, economic performance, and ideological contagion
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Ideological tension in four novels by Saul Bellow
This study examines and evaluates critically four novels by Saul Bellow: Dangling Man, The Victim, Herzog and Mr Sammler's Planet. The emphasis is on the tension between certain aspects of modernity to which many of the characters are attracted, and the latent Jewishness of their creator. Bellow's …
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
… was often utilized to refer to both an ideological and organizational shift in religious organization, with no attempt made to distinguish between the two processes or test their association. For these two reasons, secularization was redefined in ideological and organizational terms, and …
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Changing Ideological Boots: Adaptive Legislator Behavior in Changing Districts
Congressional roll-call votes are often used to investigate legislative voting behavior. To depict adaptive roll-call behavior in response to demographic changes that occur during redistricting, I use issue specific interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the …
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Ideological dilemmas of alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous recovery
… practitioner referral into AA/NA is caused by an ideological tension between the humanistic privileging of subjectivity and the perception that AA/NA subjects its members. Given the inexorable expansion of the addiction concept to most forms of human experience, it is likely that practitioners …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
"Since 2000, the comic-book superhero blockbuster has become Hollywood's most salient genre. ""Heroes, Incorporated: A Political Economy of the Superhero Blockbuster"" examines these seemingly reactionary fantasies of American power, analyzing their role in transmedia storytelling for a …
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Sustainable development: political/ideological aspects and implications for planning
… among them are not technical but political and ideological. The practice of environmental planning is concerned with a wide variety of contexts and situations at the human-environment interface. Because land use is at the root of many of the problems of environmental degradation (e.g., habitat …
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Differential object marking in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations
… leísmo. Second, it seeks to understand how ideological representations of contact-phenomena (such as DOM) affect the way different bilinguals use it, shape social identity, and how social categorization or grouping can affect the use of Basque at a larger scale. Data comes from 84 …
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From services to ideological formation: Building community agency in Palestine
ABSTRACT This research project examines the extent to which delivery of services provided by grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can lead to progressive community change. While locally grounded in the socio-political context of Palestine, this research addresses broader questions …
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Ideology in Modern Hebrew Literature in A Post-ideological Age
… worldwide flux of nationalism and the end of an ideological age, Israeli intellectuals are seeking alternative to Zionism and its critical development known as post-Zionism. Modern Hebrew literature, which used to be explicit about ideological appeals, is becoming less articulate in its dialogue …
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
… and gerrymandering. Chapter 3 is based on ideological voters. With purely ideological voters, party vote share depends on the distribution of voters in the entire country. Seat share depends on distribution of district medians. The seats/votes curve is therefore a combination of two …
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Ideological Foundations of Jihadist Organizations: Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, and IS
This thesis explores the ideological foundations of three jihadist organizations, Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State (IS). All three are categorized as international terrorist organizations but their goals differ. Hizbullah seeks to alter the government within Lebanon, al-Qaeda seeks to …
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Forging the Ideological Atlantic: West German-American Fête Diplomacy, 1945-1953
… and axioms that disseminated politically- and ideologically- important narratives that were as informed by contemporary, Cold War ideological needs as they were informed by the historical past. When viewed as a whole, these celebrations honoring German, American, German-American, and European …
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An ideological criticism of David Duke's rhetoric of racism and exclusion
… and welfare were chosen for analysis. Using ideological criticism, this study reveals the role Duke pays in America's increasingly exclusionary political environment.</p> <p>Specifically, this study uses the concepts employed by Louisa Martin Rojo in exploring the rhetorical process of …
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Ideological parallels between Gamergate and white supremacy: a thematic content analysis
… the discourse of Gamergate possesses significant ideological parallels with explicitly White Supremacist movements. Data gathered from a variety of Kotaku in Action threads were analyzed using thematic coding. The results of the analysis indicated a preoccupation with common elements of White …
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