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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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The Latest on the Sokal Affair: Beyond Three Extremisms
, 2006 After a short summary of the Sokal Affair and of the point of view of Steven Weinberg, we discuss certain aspects of the scientist ideology present in the last book of Alan Sokal "Pesudoscience ans Postmodernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travellers ...
Nicolescu, Basarab
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Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism : UK security discourse, 2001-2011 [PDF]
, 2013 This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled
Hunter, Duncan +2 more
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Voting Red Again: How Social Capital and Local Change Drove the Trump Swing
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social capital has long been regarded as a bulwark of democratic life. Yet in the United States—as across much of the democratic world—some of the communities with the densest social ties have proved the most receptive to antisystem politics.
Pedro Fierro +3 more
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Religious Extremism, Clubs, and Civil Liberties: A Model of Religious Populations [PDF]
This paper extends the club model of religion to better account for observed patterns of extremism. We adapt existing models to a multi-agent framework and analyze the distribution of agents and clubs.
Makowsky, Michael
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Influence of drivers of radicalism and violent extremism at macro and meso levels: The case of Kosovo [PDF]
Journal of Regional SecurityThis paper analyses the influence of drivers of radicalism and violent extremism on the macro and meso-level in Kosovo, as well as the prevention indicators.
Peci Lulzim
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Post-Soviet Islam : An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction [PDF]
, 2006 This is an electronic version of an article published in Rasanayagam, J. (2006). 'Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction.' Central Asian Survey 25(3) pp. 219-233.
Rasanayagam, Johan
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between Christian actors, practices, and sacred sites in US protests and demonstrations, focusing on how political ideology shapes conflict outcomes. Using event‐level data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the analysis explores 63,000 protest events from 2020 to 2024 ...
Joel Day
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RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN THE OREL REGION
Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences, 2016 The authors structured the different methodological approaches of the researchers to the nature of the concept "sect". Certain features of the sect as the authoritarian hierarchical organization producing manipulation of adherents´ consciousness are presented.
Yuriy Vlasov +5 more
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