Abstract Existing scholarship on propaganda in authoritarian regimes centers on whether it persuades or coerces. Within the persuasion camp, researchers have examined how factors such as message source, content, credibility, and audience demographics shape propaganda effectiveness. This study shifts attention to psychological needs. Drawing on evidence
Xiaoxiao Shen
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The Role of Influencers and Echo Chambers in the Diffusion of Vaccine Misinformation: Opinion Mining in a Taiwanese Online Community. [PDF]
Yin JD +5 more
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Affective regimes and ontological security: When empathy threatens the state
Abstract The ontological security of states may be threatened by the politics of empathy. Empathy—as a contested affective‐political field—has a capacity to both consolidate and unravel dominant understandings of identity, security, political subjectivity, and self‐other relations.
Naomi Head
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Political and Ideological Work in the Southern Battlefield and the Construction of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Image in Foreign Affairs (1954-1975). [PDF]
Phuong NT.
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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"Make America Healthy Again" will make the world sicker : The public health policies of the US administration will have dire results for national and global health. [PDF]
Grimes DR.
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The mental hygiene movement: the birth of global mental health in India. [PDF]
Rajpal S.
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The Futures of Digital Democracy: Four Scenarios. [PDF]
Fuchs C, Museba J, Friesch K.
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Russian military bloggers: Corpus and dataset of collected posts, 2022-2023. [PDF]
Albertini M +2 more
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