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Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Western media often critiques foreign governments for their propaganda efforts while ignoring similar efforts by their own government. We predicted that individuals would demonstrate a similar bias. An experiment with 282 Canadian participants revealed just the opposite: when asked overtly, participants judged a video attributed to their own ...
Rebecca J. Dunk, Ronda F. Lo, Raymond A. Mar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alignment and Differentiation: How Language and Network Proximity Drive Opinion‐Based Group Formation Online

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay between language and social connectedness in forming opinion‐based groups on social media. Drawing on small‐world theory and social identity theory, we propose a dual‐layer approach that combines semantic and network analysis to investigate the dynamics of group formation on X/Twitter during the 2021 COVID‐19 ...
Davide Morselli, Kevin Durrheim, Maite Beramendi, Melody Sepahpour‐Fard, Martin Mafunda, Andres Martinez Torres, Nnaemeka Ohamadike, Mike Quayle, Maria Schuld   +8 more
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The Role of European Union (EU) Metagovernance in Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Factors associated to hypertension knowledge and control in Kimpese, Democratic Republic of the Congo

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Background: Worldwide, the proportion of hypertensive patients with controlled blood pressure is poor. Knowledge on hypertension has been recognised as a major determinant of uncontrolled hypertension.
Vainqueur N. Diakengua, Ernest K. Sumahili, Patrick N. Ntontolo, Aliocha N. Nkodila, James Ibuaku, Pieter van den Hombergh, Meena Hariharan, Louis S. Jenkins, Philippe L. Ngwala   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England [PDF]

We advance the hypothesis that cultural values such as high work ethic and thrift, “the Protestant ethic” according to Max Weber, may have been diffused long before the Reformation, thereby importantly affecting the pre-industrial growth record.
Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Jeanet Bentzen, Paul Sharp, Thomas Barnebeck Andersen   +3 more
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Richard Allen [PDF]

, 2019
Richard Allen lived his scholarship, politics and passions as an integrated whole. A historian, social activist and teacher of immense intelligence, integrity, compassion and decency, Richard passed away in March of 2019, just as his most recent book of ...
Sangster, Joan
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Non‐State Regulators? Civil Society as Extension of the State in a Context of a Regularization Scheme for Undocumented Migrants

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Opération Papyrus” was implemented in the Swiss Canton of Geneva between 2017 and 2018 with the aim of granting residence permits to undocumented migrants who met pre‐established criteria. This program serves as an exemplary case of involving nongovernmental actors to facilitate what were originally state‐controlled procedures.
Jan‐Erik Refle, Adela Sanela Elezovic, Claudine Burton‐Jeangros, Yves Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latina/o Conversion and Miracle-Seeking at a Buddhist Temple

, 2018
The growing diversification of the US Latino religious’ experiences calls for scholarly attention beyond Protestant or Catholic categories. This study begins to answer this call.
Budak, Kemal, Cherry, Stephen M., Ramos, Aida I.   +2 more
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Policy Entrepreneurs and the Design of Administrative Reform: A Conceptual Framework and the Israeli Case

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Disenchantment, Rationality, and the Modernity of Max Weber [PDF]

Following Aristotle's distinction between theoretical and practical rationality, Max Weber holds that beliefs about the world and actions within the world must follow procedures consistently and be appropriately formed if they are to count as rational ...
Carroll, Anthony
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