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Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance
Journal of Personality, 2021 AbstractObjectivesDespite the broad appeal of abstract notions of political tolerance, people vary in the degree to which they support the political rights of groups they dislike. Prior research highlighted the relevance of individual differences in the cognitive domain, claiming the application of general tolerance ideals to specific situations is a ...
Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen +1 more
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Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022 Abstract A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have implications for the quality of political representation. In this study, we examine cognitive and non-cognitive ability tests conducted on (male) military conscripts by the Finnish Defense
Jokela, Markus +3 more
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Unfolding the Political Capacities of Design
Diseña, 2018 The aim of this article is to discuss the political capacities of design. The usual way of exploring the relation between design and politics has focused on design’s ability to enfold the political, that is, to inscribe political codes into things ...
Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Uriel Fogué
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Government funding of non-governmental organisations and the implied freedom of political communication: the constitutionalityof gag clause [PDF]
, 2013 This article considers the growing use of clauses in funding contracts with NGOs restricting their ability to engage in advocacy or contribute to public debate on contentious political issues.
Gray, Anthony
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Research on Ideological and Political Teaching Reform of Electronic Technology Courses in Vocational and Technical Education Based on CDIO Concept [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Starting from the actual situation of Ideological and political teaching of electronic technology courses and based on the CDIO Engineering Education Concept, this paper deeply excavates the ideological and political elements in the theoretical teaching ...
Qi Li-hua +3 more
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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]
, 2016 In light of the persistence of discourses of atrocity in the post-Holocaust era, and with the resurgence of talk of evil that followed 11 September 2001, it is clear that the idea of evil still possesses a powerful hold upon the modern imagination.
Hayden, Patrick
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Institutional Traps and Economic Growth [PDF]
, 2007 This paper's point of departure is that low-quality institutions, concentration of political power, and underdevelopment are persistent over time. Its analytical model views an equal distribution of political power as a commitment device to enhance ...
Acemoglu +29 more
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PENGARUH POLITICAL EFFICACY TERHADAP INTERPERSONAL TRUST PADA RELAWAN TOKOH POLITIK [PDF]
, 2023 Political understanding shows an individual's ability to understand political developments that occur, so that they exist interpersonal trust is the basis for individuals to assess trust in political figures.
Ramadhan, Andi Muh Wirayullah
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Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark
Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science, 2017 Multiple studies have reported positive relationships between cognitive ability and preferences for freedom, both at the personal level (e.g. drug use) and the economic (e.g. smaller government). To add to this, we investigated the relationships between cognitive ability and multi-dimensional political preferences in a Danish general population sample (
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard +2 more
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A model of conflict and leadership: Is there a hawkish drift in politics?
PLoS ONE, 2022 We analyze conflict between a citizenry and an insurgent group over a fixed resource such as land. The citizenry has an elected leader who proposes a division such that, the lower the land ceded to the insurgents, the higher the cost of conflict. Leaders
Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay +2 more
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