Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Measuring Party Identification in Public Opinion Surveys of Americans. [PDF]
Dyck JJ, Santucci J.
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Exploring the influence of electoral political orientation on health outcomes: a scoping review. [PDF]
Mejía JFR, Boing AF, Peres MA.
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The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?
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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The effects of ideology and cognitive reflection on evidence gathering behavior in the political domain. [PDF]
Justwan F, Baumgaertner B.
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ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Political determinants of US states' screening-amenable cancer stage at diagnosis and premature cancer mortality. [PDF]
Krieger N +8 more
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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data
ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools +2 more
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Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods. [PDF]
Vachuska K, Norden-Bright M.
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Complementarianism, Pronatalism, and Suppression of Reproductive Rights
ABSTRACT At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious variables or gender worldviews (such as various forms of sexism), but not the two in combination.
Brooklyn Walker, Paul A. Djupe
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