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Building a new environmentalism: News media access and framing in Canada's environmental movement
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 192-211, August 2025.Abstract This study provides a content and frame analysis of the news media advocacy of prominent environmental non‐governmental organizations (ENGOs) in Canada. We find that these organizations have an important voice in shaping how climate change is framed in news media, but that ecological modernization frames and narratives, which avoid issues of ...
Nicolas Graham, Joanna Robinson
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Pascal’s wager and the origins of decision theory: decision-making by real decision-makers [PDF]
, 2018 Pascal’s Wager does not exist in a Platonic world of possible gods, abstract probabilities and arbitrary payoffs. Real decision-makers, such as Pascal’s “man of the world” of 1660, face a range of religious options they take to be serious, with fixed ...
Franklin, James
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Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.Abstract Politicians use social media to engage directly with the public using diverse communication styles including aggressive or uncivil language. Yet, little is known about gender differences in politicians' communication styles and their subsequent online reactions.
Jana Boukemia +2 more
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The promise and peril of interpersonal political communication
Political Psychology, Volume 46, Issue S1, Page 167-212, August 2025.Abstract At present, the field of political psychology lacks an effective framework to conceptually organize the findings from the voluminous literature assessing whether interpersonal political interaction makes democracy better or worse. Historically, the scholarship examining various styles of interactions has remained siloed; scholars have not ...
Jaime E. Settle
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Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.ABSTRACT Despite its widespread use for quality assurance within the academic publishing economy, the peer review process is significantly flawed, and to a large extent, “broken.” Emerging literature from researchers who work from marginalized cultural, theoretical, and political perspectives shows that while peer review processes are useful in ...
Kathomi Gatwiri, Zoe Krupka, Mujib Abid
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Naturalizing Logic: a case study of the ad hominem and implicit bias [PDF]
, 2019 The fallacies, as traditionally conceived, are wrong ways of reasoning that nevertheless appear attractive to us. Recently, however, Woods (2013) has argued that they don’t merit such a title, and that what we take to be fallacies are instead largely ...
Ransom, Madeleine
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Virtue and argument: Taking character into account [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper we consider the prospects for an account of good argument that takes the character of the arguer into consideration. We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ...
Bowell, Tracy, Kingsbury, Justine
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Contaminant Denialism in Water Governance
Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 7, July 2025.Abstract Noting that contaminant denialism is an increasing problem in environmental governance globally, this study describes public communication strategies that inappropriately minimize the problem of contaminants in respect of sewage discharges in and around water‐bodies in Cape Town, South Africa.
Lesley Green +7 more
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Confucian Harmony, Civility, and Echo Chambers
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 887-909, July 2025.ABSTRACT How should we interact with people in echo chambers? Recently, some have argued that echo‐chambered individuals are not entitled to civility. Civility is the virtue whereby we communicate respect for persons to manage our profound disagreements with them.
Kyle van Oosterum
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