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The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source

What Caused the Ethnic Revival? Multi-case Studies in 11 Southeast Asian Countries

Journal of ASEAN Studies
Prolonged ethnic wars emerged due to disharmonious ethnic relations in Southeast Asian countries. Marginalized ethnic groups often create an ethnic revival in response to the dominance of other ethnic groups. The research analyzed the causes, processes,
Cut Maya Aprita Sari, Kartini Aboo Talib @ Khalid   +1 more
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Impartiality and Priority. Part 1: The Veil of Ignorance [PDF]

The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool for recommending what justice requires with respect to the distribution of wealth. We complete Harsanyi’s model of the veil of ignorance by appending information permitting interpersonal comparability ...
John E. Roemer, Juan Moreno-Ternero
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Problems With the Veil of Ignorance, And How We Might Solve Them

, 2022
Ever since Rawls published The Theory of Justice (1971/2009), the theory itself, along with many of its components, have been subject to intense debate. Both the "original position" and the "veil of ignorance" have been argued to be too unrealistic since
Persson, Anthony
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What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

Impartiality and Priority. Part 1: The Veil of Ignorance

, 2004
The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool for recommending what justice requires with respect to the distribution of wealth. We complete Harsanyi’s model of the veil of ignorance by appending information permitting interpersonal comparability ...
Roemer, John E., Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.
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The veil of ignorance and solidarity in healthcare : finding compassion in the original position

, 2015
In this paper I will juxtapose the concept of the veil of ignorance – a fundamental premise of Rawlsian justice as fairness – and solidarity in the context of the organisation of a healthcare system.
Zabdyr-Jamróz, Michał, Michał Zabdyr-jamróz   +1 more
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Secrecy: An Epistemological Account

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
wiley   +1 more source

Taboos as Drivers for Counterculture: Normalizing Misogyny in Incel Communities and Beyond

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt, Justina Berškytė
wiley   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source