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The Dimensions of Political Judgment
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
… careers by giving them tools to produce topical, political literature. This study first examines the popular essays of Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, all intellectually respected novelists in their day, to argue that their journalism crossed contentious lines in the period’s …
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Wisdom and Law: Political Thought in Shakespeare's Comedies
… for happiness tend to be sub- or even supra-political. No regime, it appears, is able to respond to the whole variety of circumstances that it may be called upon to judge. Even the best written laws meet with occasional exceptions and these ulterior instances must be judged by something other …
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Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden
… observed that Arendt’s late-career theory of the political owes a debt to her earlier writings on Jewish history, including her Kantian-influenced theory of political judgment and storytelling, in this thesis I would like to narrow down this debt to a specific trope: The<em> Ostjuden, </em>or the …
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On the political uses of creative darkness: Freedom, subjectivity, and normativity
… and politics informs the tradition of Western political thought from its inception. In its modern formulation, this tradition generally opposes the domains of the natural and the political, characterizing the natural in terms of determinism or necessity and the political in terms of decision or …
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Gender and Legitimacy in United Nations Mediation
… doing so may risk others' perception of their political judgment. Finally, practicing UN mediation as an art legitimates the representation of the ideal UN mediator as a man with good people skills and a feel for the game that has developed through extensive experience in diplomacy or …
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The Politics of Emergencies: War, Security and the Boundaries of the Exception in Modern Emergency Powers
… them to a variety of different historical and political contexts. The questions are: how are exceptional emergencies distinguished from quotidian political events? What is the vision of political "normalcy" in relation to which a state of exception can be declared, and in light of which the …
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SOCIAL AND REPUTATIONAL DRIVERS OF SUNK-COST SENSITIVITY IN INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
Why do people stick with failing plans after investing resources? This dissertation argues that sunk-cost behavior is shaped more by social pressures than by cognitive bias. Across three preregistered, “waste-free” studies, I show that people persist to protect reputation and …