The Political Culture of Antebellum Iowa: An Overview

An Analysis of the Stagnation Causes of the Iranian Political Culture

Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines

I chronicle the American magazine industry from its inception in 1741 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 and explain how the industry came to take on a form that, in large part, persists to the present day. My analysis highlights the cultural factors that shaped magazines: on the supply side, the social construction of a market-based conception of authorship and a supporting legal framewo...

Aztec Culture: an Overview

Aztec culture flourished in the highlands of central Mexico between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, AD. As the last in a series of complex urban civilizations in Mesoamerica, the Aztecs adopted many traits and institutions from their predecessors such as the Maya and Teotihuacan. The Aztecs also devised many innovations, particularly in the realms of economics and politics. Aztec civilizat...

Reanalysis of Iowa Political Stock Market

From IPSM’s data in 1988, Forsythe and his colleagues proved that even though there were substantial judgment bias, Iowa Political Stock Market worked quite well in the sense that its estimation of presidential candidates’ popular vote share surprisingly close, much better than the forecasts of opinion-polls. They explained that the judgment bias only referred to average traders, but market pri...

Political abuse of psychiatry--an historical overview.

The use of psychiatry for political purposes has been a major subject of debate within the world psychiatric community during the second half of the 20th century. The issue became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to the systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, where approximately one-third of the political prisoners were locked up in psychiatric hospitals. The issue cau...