Support for authoritarianism and use of force by and against the federal government in the United States in mid-2025: findings from a nationally representative survey. [PDF]
Wintemute GJ +8 more
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How Democratic Backsliding Shapes the Entry, Non‐Entry, and Waiting of Potential Civil Servants
ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding is coupled with politicians' undermining of the civil service's professionalism and commitment to liberal democratic values. Existing research has examined civil servants' responses. Nonetheless, politicians' attacks on democracy and the bureaucracy also affect potential recruits' career choices.
Reut Marciano +2 more
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Universal threads: Shared sociopolitical roots and consequences of extrasensory perception and pseudoscientific beliefs. [PDF]
Petrović MB +5 more
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Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy
ABSTRACT Conditionality was a central concern in the development literature of the 1990s. With the significant expansion of targeted public support to private firms since the Great Financial Crisis, the issue of conditionality has once again become a focal point in industrial policy debates.
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor
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ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché +2 more
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Polarizing trajectories of colonial ideologies: A latent class growth analysis of historical negation and symbolic exclusion. [PDF]
Bertenshaw Z, Sibley CG, Osborne D.
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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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The Role of Flexibility in the Formation and Maintenance of Extreme Beliefs: A Narrative Scoping Review. [PDF]
Deverson S, Delfabbro P, Balzan R.
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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System justification and democracy: Is liberal democracy part of the status quo? [PDF]
Vargas Salfate S +2 more
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