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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

From Tolstoy's Expressionism to Nietzsche's Skepticism of Philosophers' Neutrality—Constructing and Dismantling the Bridge Between Art and Philosophy

open access: yesThe Philosophical Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to Tolstoy's theory of art, personal expression plays a crucial role as an essential artistic element since it is associated with originality and emotional communication. Is personal expression also significant in philosophy? We often tend to believe that in a philosophical theory, this element is, or should be, absent in the pursuit
Tiago Sousa
wiley   +1 more source

The psychology of political attitudinal volatility

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The assumption that political beliefs are formed by early‐life socialization and psychological predispositions, leading to stability in adulthood, increasingly acts as a theoretical cornerstone in the literature. However, politics is replete with examples of attitudinal change; this article proposes that certain stable psychological ...
James Dennison
wiley   +1 more source

The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
wiley   +1 more source

Job Switching Motives and Employer Attractiveness: A Comparative Analysis of Sector Switchers and Non‐Sector Switchers

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attracting talent to public administration is a highly relevant issue of practical concern and scholarly debate. Building on unique survey data of 424 individuals who switched jobs to join public administration, this study explores public employer attractiveness in a multi‐incentive setting, accounting for the experiences of a less explored ...
Adrian Ritz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We perform bibliometric analysis on documents for 255 Regulatory Impact Analyzes (RIAs) prepared by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1980 through 2024. Using a series of automated information extraction methods, we extract references from these documents and match them to bibliographic records.
Tyler A. Scott, Sojeong Kim, Liza Wood
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Capture Among Regulators: A Systematic Review

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In established democracies, the threat of regulatory capture—often implicated in major crises—is usually less about financial mechanisms like bribery and more about the subtle social processes of cultural capture. But how exactly is cultural capture defined, theorized, and assessed, and what are its underlying mechanisms, manifestations, and ...
Alexandra M. Chesterfield   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meta-heuristic optimization reloaded

2011 Third World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, 2011
We consider the meta-heuristic approach to optimization as to be performed in four stages (model, optimality, algorithm, verification), and point out the potential of varying the optimality stage, in contrary to the design of new algorithms. Thus, we can also apply the meta-heuristic approach to optimization to the task of fair distribution of ...
Mario Koppen, Kaori Yoshida, Kei Ohnishi
openaire   +1 more source

Parameter tuning for meta-heuristics

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020
Abstract These days meta-heuristic algorithms are gaining lot of popularity. The performance of the meta-heuristics depends upon the suitable selection of user dependent parameters. Finding the most suitable values for the parameters (fine tuning) is a challenging problem.
Susheel Kumar Joshi   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

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