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Wrestling with Japanese Tribalism Emerging Collaborative Opportunities For India and Japan [PDF]

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Japanese firms, with their strong technology base and high domestic factor costs, have the potential of teaming with India, with its more basic infrastructure and eight times the population.
Lambert, Bruce Henry
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Traditional authority, institutional multiplicity and political transition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Adherents of tradition argue that customary institutions in Africa and the traditional leaders that uphold them have a stabilizing influence, particularly given the inadequacies of many post-colonial African states.
Beall, Jo   +2 more
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The Dark Side of Ideology: Ideological Worldviews and Antidemocratic Attitudes

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1553, Issue 1, Page 391-406, November 2025.
This study investigated associations between ideological worldviews and opposition to liberal democracy in a UK sample (N = 824). System‐justifying (e.g., authoritarianism and social dominance) and system‐challenging (e.g., need for chaos and prejudice against the rich) worldviews robustly predicted antidemocratic attitudes, mediated by perceived ...
Artur Nilsson, Ali Teymoori
wiley   +1 more source

Increasingly Problematic Issue of Political Participation: A Case Study of the Twelfth Term Elections of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province [PDF]

open access: yesجامعه شناسی کاربردی
Introduction Elections represent a collective will and serve as a vital link between participation and legitimacy. In complex societies where millions of citizens cannot engage directly in governance, the system of indirect or proxy representation has ...
Sadegh Panahinasab   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers, Play and Communitas—an Anthropological View on Building Consumer Involvement on a Mass Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There is an increasing interest in effective methods for building consumer involvement on a mass scale. This paper offers an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for consumer involvement analysis and forwards an anthropological approach to this ...
Karpinska-Krakowiak, Malgorzata
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The Dark Side of Moral Conviction—Integrating Political Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1553, Issue 1, Page 5-20, November 2025.
Abstract Morality is a pervasive characteristic of human societies, with social norms and codes of conduct defining acceptable and unacceptable behaviors across cultures. Our evolved moral sense facilitates group living by regulating interpersonal interactions and promoting cooperation beyond the bounds of kinship ties. Moral beliefs that are held with
Jean Decety   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Tribalism in Europe

open access: yesPerspective Politice, 2014
Our paper is dedicated to tendencies of tribalism which appear in contemporary Europe. We can see them also in post-communist societies, e.g. in Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania.
Jakub POTULSKI, Arkadiusz MODRZEJEWSKI
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Presidential Address: Identity Politics

open access: yesEconometrica, Volume 93, Issue 6, Page 1937-1967, November 2025.
We offer a theory of changing dimensions of political polarization based on endogenous social identity. We formalize voter identity as in Bonomi, Gennaioli, and Tabellini (2021), but add parties that compete on policy and spread stereotypes to persuade voters.
Nicola Gennaioli, Guido Tabellini
wiley   +1 more source

Zeitgeist and Ortgeist: Time and Place in Institutional Creation

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 1694-1708, October 2025.
Abstract How are institutions created is one of the most interesting questions in institutional theory. Some strands of literature favour heroic explanations: mythologizing individuals with vision, tenacity and drive and putting these individuals on the pedestal of the institution.
Sabina Keston‐Siebert, Kevin Orr
wiley   +1 more source

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