Secrecy: An Epistemological Account
ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Chatbots reduce health-related conspiracy beliefs not because of but despite being perceived as AI. [PDF]
Ballot P +3 more
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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Physically aggressive conspiracy believers often faced various psycho-social problems: Findings from a longitudinal population-based study. [PDF]
van der Velden PG +3 more
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Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
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Longitudinal predictors of vaccine conspiracy beliefs: findings from a five-wave panel study in Japan. [PDF]
Yamamoto H +3 more
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From Civic Tech to DOGE: The Role of Tech Movements in the American Administrative State
ABSTRACT The second Trump administration saw the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group of outsider technologists given extraordinary power to pursue a massive downsizing of the federal government. They also displaced an alternative approach: the civic tech movement.
Donald Moynihan
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Differential Associations of Authoritarian Submission and Traditionalism with Fake-News Detection and Conspiracy-Claim Endorsement: Evidence from Two Romanian Samples in the 2024-2025 Electoral Cycle. [PDF]
Răileanu-Olariu T, Mutu A.
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What Now? Military Peace Activism in the Wake of the Vietnam War
ABSTRACT This article defines military peace activism as peace activism related to military manpower policy and military personnel, including active, reserve, potential, and former servicemembers. It argues that when the US war in Vietnam and the draft that supported it ended, antiwar activists who worked with GIs had to reframe their work, as the ...
Amy J. Rutenberg
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