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Religious Extremism and its Manifestations in Contemporary Russia
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2010 The article is devoted to the problem of religious extremism in contemporary Russia. The author defines a term «religious extremism», researches conditions of origin of this phenomenon, it's correlation with another extremism forms, with international ...
E N Plujnikov
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Fundamentalism and terrorism: The contemporary religious challenge [PDF]
, 2006 For nearly a century the term ‘fundamentalism’ has referred primarily to a set of specific Christian beliefs and an allied ultra-conservative attitude.
Pratt, Douglas
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Quantum Extremism: Effective Potential and Extremal Paths
, 2009 The reality and convexity of the effective potential in quantum field theories has been studied extensively in the context of Euclidean space-time. It has been shown that canonical and path-integral approaches may yield different results, thus resolving ...
A. Dannenberg +24 more
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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
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Can Extremism Guarantee Pluralism? [PDF]
Many models have been proposed to explain the opinion formation in a group of individuals; most of these models study the opinion propagation as the interaction between nodes/agents in a social network.
Alberto Mazzoni, Floriana Gargiulo
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The choice argument for proportional representation
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
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Electoral responses to economic crises
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extensive data on electorates, parties, and individuals in 24 countries for over half a century, we document a systematic pattern whereby economic ...
Yotam Margalit, Omer Solodoch
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Extremism in European Football
Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic EducationPolitical and public extremism is present in many facets of everyday life. This is no different in professional sport, where fans embolden themselves as a collective unit of a particular commonality: the team, country, or political structures.
Jon Deighton
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A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party's down‐ballot candidates to low‐quality or extreme top‐of‐the‐ticket candidates, but empirical evidence on this conventional wisdom is scant. We estimate the effect of candidate quality and ideology in gubernatorial and U.S.
Kevin DeLuca +2 more
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Features of modern «American» extremism
RUDN Journal of Law, 2013 Modern experience of the USA counteractions to extremism is analyzed and features of the «American» extremism are marked out. It is specified positive sides of the American experience for use of methods of fight against extremism in the international ...
N V Volodina
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