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Contestations and Contradictions in the Argentine Redes de Trueque

open access: yesRevue de la Régulation, 2015
Complementary and Community Currency Systems are studied as schemes of monetary contestation, following the assumption that the rejection of official money implies a micro-political act of resistance to the government, the globalised economic system and ...
Georgina M. Gómez, Joop de Wit
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Two views on political lesser evil

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2018
In this article I argue that doing the lesser evil in politics is always permitted and even required. I call this view “pragmatism”. I defend it against “purism”, which claims that it is never permissible to do (the lesser) evil.
Francisco Garcia Gibson
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Autocrat of the Armchair [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Structural analysis is a standard tool to identify submodels that can be used to design model based diagnostic tests. Structural approaches typically operate on models described by a set of equations.
Frisk, Erik, Åslund, Jan
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Clientelism, coalitions, and concessions: pragmatism in local elections and its democratic costs

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
IntroductionThis study examines how clientelism, coalitions, and political concessions shape democratic costs in local elections, with political pragmatism as a mediating factor.MethodsWe conducted an anonymous survey of 100 voters in Southeast Sulawesi,
Anwar Sadat, Muh Askal Basir
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Hasan al-Turabi's Pragmatic Approach to Establishing an Islamic State in Sudan [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
This research examines the pragmatic approach of Hasan al-Turabi, a key figure in the Sudanese Islamic movement, in fighting for an Islamic state. Using qualitative analysis that combines the concepts of pragmatism and social movement theory, this study ...
Ahmad Nabilul Maram   +2 more
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The Mongolian Ideology of Tenggerism and Khubilai Khan [PDF]

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2013
The article examines the main stages in the development of the Mongolian ideology of Tenggerism. The author proves that the final (Third) stage of Tenggerism began with the reign of Khubilai Khan who completed the creation of a world empire by the ...
Shagdar Bira
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Investigating the Concept of Zaidi Imāms and its Effect on Shaping Political-Social Movements of Shiites of This Sect in Second and Third Centuries AH [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2018
Transforming the concept of Imamate and the consequences of its different definitions is one of most challenging theological and historical issues among Shia religious scholars, orators, jurist and historians.
yaghoub panahi   +3 more
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Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change [preprint] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter explores some features of pragmatic pluralism as an ethical perspective on climate change. It is inspired in part by Andrew Light’s work on climate diplomacy as U.S.
Fesmire, Steven
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE URGENCY OF POLITICAL EDUCATION FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article has been written based on the from research on the political knowledge, attitude, skill and partisipatory of beginner voters in Surabaya. The special target is to achieve the procurement of sense about student beginner voters who studied ...
Maya Mustika Kartika, Sari
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