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Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency

open access: yesPresidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the Cohesion and Influence of Minority Opinions Through Clustering: A Social Network Experiment

open access: yesPsyCh Journal, Volume 14, Issue 6, Page 940-951, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Minority opinions can be of crucial importance to the diversity, productivity, and harmony of a group, but are often left unattended and unheard. Previous methods that tried to enhance minority influence are usually overly forceful and low on ecological validity. To overcome these pitfalls, we proposed a new intervention method called minority
Baizhou Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The E of Delfos

open access: yesFeminismo/s, 2012
Archaeological findings help us to make an interpretation of history that is hidden behind the myths; I focus in particular those relating to the history of the oracle at Delphi and Dodona. In last times, the cult of Delphi, when Plutarch was a priest of
Neus Calvo Escamilla
doaj   +1 more source

The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
wiley   +1 more source

Parmenide e Platone (e Aristotele) nel Contro Colote di Plutarco

open access: yesAitia, 2013
The chapters dedicated to Parmenides and Plato play a decisive role in the composition strategy of the Adversus Colotem, since this is where Plutarch most clearly defines the background dualist thesis that will help ...
Mauro Bonazzi
doaj   +1 more source

Una suggestione archilochea ne La Città Morta?

open access: yesArchivio d’Annunzio, 2020
This note proposes the hypothesis that in La città morta, Act II, sc. I, d’Annunzio used a fragment of Archilochus, sent to us by Plutarch and Athenaeus.
Bisanti, Armando
doaj   +1 more source

What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
wiley   +1 more source

Ausgewählte Biographieen des Plutarch /

open access: yes, 1875
Includes indexes.Text in Greek, explanatory notes in German.1. Bd. Philopoemen und Titus Quinctius Flamininus / von Otto Siefert. 2. Aufl. besorgt von Friedrich Blass -- 2. Bd. Timoleon und Pyrrhos / von Otto Siefert. 2. Aufl. besorgt von Friedrich Blass
Plutarch.   +2 more
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A multidisciplinary study on the location of Roman sites in the southern sub‐plateau of the Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1373-1390, October 2025.
Abstract Architectural and engineering elements of the Roman civilization constitute an important cultural heritage. Nevertheless, not all ancient Roman cities and the roads connecting them have been found, mainly because classical geographical sources show a significant lack of precision.
Jesús M. Romera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Did Down‐Regulated Instincts Enable Human Gene‐Culture Coevolution?

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The unique intellectual and cultural attributes of Homo sapiens that arose during the Middle Stone Age are often ascribed to positive evolutionary development of novel physical or personality traits, but attempts to correlate cultural with genetic evolution have been unsuccessful.
Gerald E. Loeb
wiley   +1 more source

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