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Politics Goes Mobile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Analyzes survey findings on the use of cell phones to follow or participate in the 2010 elections including receiving updates from or contributing money to campaigns, sharing information on voting stations, and monitoring election results by ...
Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revising the ‘myth’ of a ‘clean wehrmacht’: generals’ trials, public opinion, and the dynamics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in West Germany, 1948–60 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Among one of the most consistent claims made by the organizers and supporters of the ‘Wehrmacht exhibition’ has been that the ‘myth’ of a ‘clean Wehrmacht’ took root in the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1950s, lasting well into the 1980s, only
Searle, DA
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Strong Leaders, Not Strongmen: How Concern for Polarization and Collective Nostalgia Shape Leader Preference

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Political polarization is widely seen as a growing threat to democratic cohesion, yet little is known about how concern about polarization shapes citizens’ preferences for political leadership. Across four studies in the United States and Canada, we examined whether concern about polarization predicts support for strong leaders, and whether ...
Michael J. A. Wohl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Social Media Connects and Divides Us: Psychological Insights and Paths Forward

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social media was once celebrated as a revolutionary space for constructive connection. While it can foster community, amplify marginalised voices and expose users to diverse perspectives, these platforms are also implicated in the rise of polarisation, intergroup conflict and extremist movements.
Emily Kubin, Shelley McKeown
wiley   +1 more source

Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Yuri Dorokhov from Rostov-on-Don as a member of the Italian Resistance movement

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis
The article describes the military path of Yuri Dorokhov, a Soviet member of the Italian Resistance. In the Red Army Sergeant Dorokhov commanded the 1575th squad of a separate sapper battalion which was a part of the 56th Army.
Sedakova Elizaveta Nikolaevna
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Do Institutions Make Street‐Level Bureaucrats Prosocial? Agent‐Based Evidence Shows That New Public Management Does Not

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
wiley   +1 more source

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

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