Neurosurgeons and psychiatrists who favor psychosurgery sometimes show dismay that anyone would accuse them of harboring political aims, and it is true that the average psychosurgeon has little or no interest in the application of his technology to overtly political problems. But it is equally true that several of the nation's leading psychosurgeons have persistently linked their work to the co...

Expertise has been a topic of fascination among cognitive psychologists for many years now. Numerous studies have explored expertise in 1981), and many other areas. In recent years, social psychologists have shown an increasing interest in expertise as well (e.. being learned by cognitive psychologists about the correlates and consequences of expertise in nonsocial domains are proving to be ver...

Investigations of American politics have increasingly turned to analyses of political networks to understand public opinion, voting behavior, the diffusion of policy ideas, bill sponsorship in the legislature, interest group coalitions and influence, party factions, institutional development, and other empirical phenomena. While the association between political networks and political behavior ...

As with the United States and Great Britain there has been a markedincrease in prevalence of political sex scandal themed stories reported on by Irish media since 1990s. This article considers concept scandal, its relationship case. It argues that was frequent part journalism pre-independence but that, post-independence, this approach replaced reticence to report such until finds that,today, av...

Although political participation can take many different forms within a democratic regime, there is no doubt that in one way or another the notion is central to the very idea of a democracy. It is difficult to find a piece of research reported in contemporary journals of political science that does not purport to describe some form of political participation: studies of the voter, the party act...

Automatic political preference prediction from social media posts has to date proven successful only in distinguishing between publicly declared liberals and conservatives in the US. This study examines users’ political ideology using a sevenpoint scale which enables us to identify politically moderate and neutral users – groups which are of particular interest to political scientists and polls...

political conflict in the late twentieth century. Demands for ‘recognition of difference’ fuel struggles of groups mobilized under the banners of nationality, ethnicity, ‘race’, gender, and sexuality. In these ‘post-socialist’ conflicts, group identity supplants class interest as the chief medium of political mobilization. Cultural domination supplants exploitation as the fundamental injustice....

Executive Summary Important parts of the literature on strategies of interest organizations consider the political activities of interest organizations as serving to build and maintain exchange relationships between organizational representatives and constituents, policymakers and the news media. The incentive for organizational survival produces activities that links social and political domai...