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Drivers of Energy Policy Asymmetry Between Supply and Demand in the United Kingdom
ABSTRACT The scale of energy service demands and the efficiency with which they are provided determine the size of energy systems. As most modern energy systems are powered predominantly by fossil fuels, the size of the system determines the scale of the decarbonisation challenge enshrined in net‐zero targets.
Colin Nolden, Tina Fawcett, Nick Eyre
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Sufficiency Policy in Rural Municipalities: Measures, Enablers, and Barriers
ABSTRACT A mounting body of scientific evidence emphasizes the necessity of sufficiency as a sustainability strategy in view of intensifying global ecological crises. To enable and promote sufficiency implementation with the necessary speed and scope, efforts at all policy levels are needed.
Tonja Iten, Irmi Seidl, Marco Pütz
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Through a feminist critical discourse analysis of newspaper columns from both secular/nationalist and religio-conservative outlets, this article illustrates how the issue of increased violence against women—which was made visible by the murder and ...
Ece Algan
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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This study offers a sociological analysis of a student carnival in communist Czechoslovakia, the Majales in Bratislava and Prague in May 1956. Utilizing sources such as newspaper articles, photographs and witness accounts, this case study aims to ...
Dominik Želinský, Werner Binder
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ABSTRACT In two studies conducted in Spain, we identified asymmetries in moral judgements, showing that leftist political topics and individuals were perceived as more moral than their rightist counterparts. Study 1 assessed the participants’ perceived moral obligation to defend topics traditionally associated with leftist or rightist ideologies.
Cristian Catena‐Fernández +1 more
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ABSTRACT Using semi‐structured interviews, we investigate how professionals involved in implementing or communicating a controversial Danish integration policy articulated their perspectives on the policy. This policy—the ‘the parallel society agreement’ (also known as the ‘ghetto‐laws’)—aims to draw a ‘Danish’ middle class into marginalized public ...
Thomas Madsen +2 more
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The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs
ABSTRACT Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the impact of the societal level of freedom of speech on conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1, using aggregated nation‐level data (N = 68 countries), we found
Paul Bertin +6 more
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Newspaper Reading Habits among Post-Graduate Students of Karnatak University, Dharwad
C. Krishnamurthy, Veeresh H Awari
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How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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