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The Political Identity: Between Qur'anic View and Western Theory
Buletin Al-Turas, 2023 Purpose: Identity nowadays has become very complicated in the political sphere. Political identity needs to be studied from two perspectives; Western theory and Islamic theory. Islamic political identity taken from the concept of the Qur'an.
Sujiat Zubaidi +3 more
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A Political Theory of Populism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Abstract When voters fear that politicians may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of integrity are valuable. As a consequence, an honest politician seeking reelection chooses “populist” policies—that is, policies to the left of the median voter—as a way of signaling that he is not beholden to the interests of the right.
Konstantin Sonin +2 more
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Political theory and the politics of need
European Journal of Political Theory, 2023 The theory of needs has a political problem. Whilst contemporary theorists largely recognise that politics plays an important part in many of the processes surrounding our needs, they nevertheless hang onto the notion that our most important needs can be
George Boss
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Translation as a mode of self-making: Psychoanalysis from the global south [PDF]
Filozofija i DruštvoThis article explores translation as a mode of self-making across multiple contexts in which we live. Tracking the modern secular discipline of psychoanalysis in the Global South, we see how its conceptual universe is translated and reshaped ...
Menon Nivedita
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Impact of Farmers’ Associations on Household Income: Evidence from Tea Farms in Vietnam
Economies, 2020 Farmers’ associations play an important role to help members increase their access to supports of information, capital, and technology; bring benefits to members; and partly promote production, enhance productivity, and increase income.
Hung Van Vu, Huong Ho, Quoc Hoi Le
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Celebrity, Democracy, and Epistemic Power [PDF]
, 2019 What, if anything, is problematic about the involvement of celebrities in democratic politics? While a number of theorists have criticized celebrity involvement in politics (Meyer 2002; Mills 1957; Postman 1987) none so far have examined this issue using
Archer, Alfred +3 more
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The economic ethics of Calvinism. The reconciliation of piety and wealth
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017 The doctrine of predestination in the Lutheran and Calvinist theology, along with the assumption of a radical separation of nature and grace as well as the material and spiritual realm, had a significant impact on social life.
Lucyna Chmielewska
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Bottom-up accountability and public service provision: Evidence from a field experiment in Brazil
Research & Politics, 2020 Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities.
Danilo Freire +2 more
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What Makes a Utopia Inconvenient? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Realist Orientation to Politics [PDF]
, 2016 Contemporary politics is often said to lack utopias. For prevailing understandings of the practical force of political theory, this looks like cause for celebration.
BENJAMIN L. MCKEAN +26 more
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Curriculum Theories and Their Politics in Ghana’s Pretetiary Education System
Journal of Digital Learning and Education, 2023 Ghana’s educational reforms are mostly influenced or initiated by politicians. The concept of politics is a means to an end and not an end in itself. This is experienced as a result of the cascading effect of the power of the macro level of curriculum ...
Atar Alphaa Mohammed
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