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The choice argument for proportional representation

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Climate crisis and policy inaction in Indonesia

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We surveyed voters and politicians in advance of the 2024 Indonesian election to measure preferences for environmental policy. We find that politicians underestimate voter concerns. We conducted an informational experiment with politicians to correct these misperceptions, and we document evidence of learning but no greater support for policy ...
Allan Hsiao, Nicholas Kuipers
wiley   +1 more source

Agential Pluralism

open access: yes, 2017
In a battle of words, few weapons are stronger than fundamental rights. Whether we debate wars, climate change, refugees or healthcare, it always seems to boil down to figuring out out who has an important right to what. One would therefore think we have a clear idea of what these crucial rights standards entail - but one would be wrong.
openaire   +2 more sources

On Jain Anekantavada and Pluralism in Philosophy of Mathematics

open access: yes, 2019
I claim that a relatively new position in philosophy of mathematics, pluralism, overlaps in striking ways with the much older Jain doctrine of anekantavada and the associated doctrines of nyayavada and syadvada.
Elkind, Landon D. C.
core  

Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
wiley   +1 more source

AI needs a new philosophy of science. [PDF]

open access: yesInnovation (Camb)
Camps-Valls G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Monism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Toleration: An Analysis of Spinoza's Rationalist Political Philosophy and its 20th Century Critics

open access: yes
474 pg.Today, the concepts "toleration" and "pluralism" are generally taken to be synonymous. Yet Baruch Spinoza's rationalist political philosophy outlined a conception of positive liberty, as well as a robust doctrine of toleration, which grew out of ...
Frim, David Landon
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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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