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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
Dialog, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 76-83, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
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Geography of Electoral Districting or Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian‑style
Sfera Politicii, 2015 In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates.
Aurelian Giugăl
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L'Espace Politique, 2020 The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible implications for national representation and for the principle of vote equality, of the 2018 constitutional National Assembly reform project.
Cyrille Genre-Grandpierre +2 more
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Measuring Political Gerrymandering [PDF]
The American Mathematical Monthly, 2019 In 2016, a Wisconsin court struck down the state assembly map due to unconstitutional gerrymandering. If this ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court's pending 2018 decision, it will be the fist successful political gerrymandering case in the history of the United States.
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 385-412, June 2026.Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 68-82, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT There are cases of psychiatric disorder where affective states produce severely self‐destructive behavior. Sufferers do not appear to be making autonomous decisions, and appear to be severely impaired in their decision‐making capacity. Suffers of these kinds of cases of these kinds of disorders fall into a “gray area” in the law.
Joe Gough
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SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2018 This essay is intended to be an analytical reflection on the two essays with which Kitsuse and Spector introduced and outlined their proposal for a sociology of social problems.
Luca Recchi
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Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2026.Abstract The 2024 US presidential election unfolded in an environment of heightened polarization, widespread distrust, and unprecedented public anger. Drawing on the Anger Activism Model (AAM), we examined this period of history to assess how anger interacts with external political efficacy to shape opposition toward democratic behaviors and support ...
Monique M. Turner +4 more
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Algorithms for gerrymandering over graphs
Theoretical Computer Science, 2019 We initiate the systematic algorithmic study for gerrymandering over graphs that was recently introduced by Cohen-Zemach, Lewenberg and Rosenschein. Namely, we study a strategic procedure for a political districting designer to draw electoral district boundaries so that a particular target candidate can win in an election.
Ito, Takehiro +3 more
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