Browsing by Subject "Politics"
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A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder
(2008-12-10)The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on the ... -
A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
Are State legislatures responding to public opinion when allocating funds for tobacco control programs?
(Health Promot Pract, 2004-07)This study explored the factors associated with state-level allocations to tobacco-control programs. The primary research question was whether public sentiment regarding tobacco control was a significant factor in the states' ... -
Athenian Democracy on Paper
(2018)Thousands of public records survive from democratic Athens. Nearly all of them are inscribed on stone (or more rarely metal). A century and more of study has revealed that these inscriptions were the tip of the iceberg. ... -
Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
(2012)Literary modernism followed a century during which philosophical speculations about the mechanistic basis of human life found experimental validation in the work of physiologists, who stressed the power of environment to ... -
Conservatives, liberals, and "the negative".
(Behav Brain Sci, 2014-06)The authors connect conservatism with aversion to negativity via the tendentious use of the language of threats to characterize conservatism, but not liberalism. Their reliance upon an objective conception of the negative ... -
Cuban-Russian Relations in the 21st Century: Oil and Geopolitics
(2015)This thesis examines how the recent discovery of massive oil reserves off the coast of Cuba has driven a resurgence of Cuban-Russian relations in the 21st century. The first chapter demonstrates how the Russian government ... -
Dominance, politics, and physiology: voters' testosterone changes on the night of the 2008 United States presidential election.
(PLoS One, 2009-10-21)BACKGROUND: Political elections are dominance competitions. When men win a dominance competition, their testosterone levels rise or remain stable to resist a circadian decline; and when they lose, their testosterone levels ... -
Elusive consensus: Polarization in elite communication on the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Science advances, 2020-07)Cues sent by political elites are known to influence public attitudes and behavior. Polarization in elite rhetoric may hinder effective responses to public health crises, when accurate information and rapid behavioral change ... -
Experiments in Violence: The Problem of Oppositional Politics in Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Fiction
(2020)Paradoxically, Benedict Anderson’s notion of the nation as an imagined community occupying a territory at once bounded and sovereign became commonplace around the same time that prominent global novelists were beginning ... -
Feeling superior is a bipartisan issue: extremity (not direction) of political views predicts perceived belief superiority.
(Psychological science, 2013-12)Accusations of entrenched political partisanship have been launched against both conservatives and liberals. But is feeling superior about one's beliefs a partisan issue? Two competing hypotheses exist: the rigidity-of-the-right ... -
Figuring a Queer Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Dissent in Istanbul
(2020)This dissertation is a theoretical and art/archival practice-based exploration of aesthetic-affective resistance to neoliberal recuperation of urban space that not only constitutes a physical manifestation of capitalist ... -
If Lee Kuan Yew Were A Pastor: Reflections on Lee's Relevance for Christian Leaders
(2020)Pastors, especially senior pastors of churches with larger congregations and staffteams, have to provide leadership, not only in the typical pastoral sense ofpreaching/teaching and counseling/caring, but also in terms of ... -
Ink Under the Fingernails: Making Print in Nineteenth-Century Mexico City
(2016)This dissertation examines Mexico City’s material politics of print—the central actors engaged in making print, their activities and relationships, and the legal, business, and social dimensions of production—across the ... -
Liberal bias and the five-factor model.
(Behav Brain Sci, 2015)Duarte et al. draw attention to the "embedding of liberal values and methods" in social psychological research. They note how these biases are often invisible to the researchers themselves. The authors themselves fall prey ... -
Online engagement with 2020 election misinformation and turnout in the 2021 Georgia runoff election.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022-08)Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President Donald Trump, promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Joe Biden's close victory in Georgia was fraudulent. Such conspiratorial ... -
Perceptions of Competence, Strength, and Age Influence Voters to Select Leaders with Lower-Pitched Voices.
(PloS one, 2015-01)Voters prefer leaders with lower-pitched voices because they are perceived as stronger, having greater physical prowess, more competent, and having greater integrity. An alternative hypothesis that has yet to be tested is ... -
Policy Proposals and Pinky Promises: Framing Print Media Coverage of Female Presidential Candidates
(2021-12)On the stage of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hillary Clinton made history on July 26, 2016. For the first time, a major political party nominated a female candidate for President. “If there are any ... -
Politicalizing Art in Mao and Post-Mao Era
(2020)As Carlos Ginsburg pointed out, “What is much harder to reject in principle (but also as much harder and more laborious to achieve) is an analytical reconstruction of the intricate web of minute relations that underlies ...
