Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Loyal Wingmen, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Enhancement: A Warning against Cyborg-Drone Warfare. [PDF]
Enemark C.
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model
Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
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Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism. [PDF]
Goodman S, Arens S.
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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg +2 more
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Volunteering for Ukraine: scoping the operational experiences and impacts among UK and US veterans. [PDF]
Williamson V +5 more
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Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments
Abstract The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence on support for leaders with authoritarian inclinations through preregistered field and survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The field
Sirianne Dahlum +4 more
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Community Code Blue: The Sydney Jewish Community's Medical Preparations and Response to the Bondi Beach Terror Attack of December 2025. [PDF]
Baron A +4 more
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Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
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"It's My Dark Secret": A Qualitative Study on the Abortion Experiences of US Active-Duty Servicewomen. [PDF]
Russell C +7 more
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