This study, which forms part of a broader research project, analyzes gender differences in: the intensity of diverse emotions, the justification of violence, attitudes towards the terrorist group ETA, forgiveness and tolerance. Participants comprised 728 people (45.5% men and 54.5% women) resident in either Basque Country or Navarra (Spain), representative of all national identities and politic...

Abstract This introductory chapter sets up the stage for subsequent contributions to this volume by presenting theoretical frameworks within which religion, including religious pluralism and tolerance, forced migration are currently debated. It shows how political policy debates on reception of refugees asylum seekers intersect with role religion spirituality play in lives migrants. The ends a ...

While related fields have turned to personality understand human behavior, we know relatively little about its role and impact in public administration. We review how has been studied administration offer an empirical test of it relates policymaker attitudes administrative arrangements. Using the “Big Five” framework a sample elected politicians, conduct two studies showing is associated with t...

Under the asymmetry hypothesis, political tolerance and intolerance differ in their underlying psychology, making it easier to persuade tolerant become less than convince intolerant more tolerant. Using a representative sample of Dutch population (N = 546), we examined this hypothesis for people’s or socially disruptive protest actions least-liked gr...

■ Abstract Wrestling with basic problems of causal inference between institutions and outcomes has been a central focus of political science over the last decade, and as elsewhere in the discipline, scholars of postcommunism have begun to make some headway on these problems. Their efforts have not only advanced important debates about postcommunism, but also in many cases addressed long-standin...

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere behaviour. Manipulative behaviour has received increased attention since the famous Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem. We examine the computational complexity of manipulation in weighted voting games which are ubiquitous mathematical models used in economics, political science, neuro...