Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.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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Dialogue of the Deaf: How Deliberation With Discontented Citizens May Hopelessly Fail
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments employ public deliberation in response to citizen discontent, intending to achieve consensus, mutual understanding, and clarification. However, some studies suggest that deliberation can devolve into a “dialogue of the deaf,” where parties talk past each other, counterproductively leading to conflict, distrust, and confusion ...
Anouk van Twist
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Investigating Beliefs in Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories among Medical Students. [PDF]
Vaccines (Basel)Domaradzki J, Jabkowski P, Walkowiak D.
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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
Public Administration, EarlyView.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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Association between beliefs in medical conspiracy theories and health behaviors among medical and healthcare students. Implications for professional practice. [PDF]
BMC Med EducDomaradzki J, Jabkowski P, Walkowiak D.
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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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Populist attitudes and belief in conspiracy theories: anti-elitist attitudes and the preference for unrestricted popular sovereignty reduce the positive impact of an analytical thinking style on conspiracy beliefs. [PDF]
BMC Res NotesMehl S, Rief W, Soll D, Pytlik N.
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Bullshitters, Liars and Bad Teachers: The Scope of Epistemic Malevolence
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is two‐fold. We argue against the received conception of epistemic malevolence and give a broader characterisation that, we argue, captures its real scope. We tackle the current notion of epistemic malevolence (EM) on three fronts. We claim that this notion fails to capture cases of EM that are (i) not knowledge directed (
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