Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2021 Lerch BA +3 more
europepmc +1 more source
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
wiley +1 more source
Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
wiley +1 more source
Liberal democracy and nuclear despotism: two ethical foreign policy dilemmas
Ethics & Global Politics, 2013 This article advances a critical analysis of John Rawls's justification of liberal democratic nuclear deterrence in the post-Cold War era as found in The Law of Peoples. Rawls's justification overlooked how nuclear-armed liberal democracies
Thomas E. Doyle
doaj +1 more source
A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley +1 more source
Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Burgess MG, Pielke R, Ritchie J.
europepmc +1 more source
The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
wiley +1 more source
Reflections of our Folk Literature and folk culture of Peter Weiss’s Mythological Anti-despotism and Quest / PETER WEİSS’DEKİ MİTİK DİRENME EYLEMİNİN HALK EDEBİYATIMIZDAKİ ORTAK YANLARI [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2016 Peter Weis’s Aesthetics of Resistance, a well-known novel in the world literature, is initiated with the figure of the Heracles in Greek mythology to explain the European’s anti-despotism and quest for freedom. Uprising to the divinity and the power of
Metin Karadağ**
doaj
Bad bosses and despotism at workplace: A systematic review of the despotic leadership literature. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Khizar HMU +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
wiley +1 more source