How does accountability impact political decisions? Though previous research on accountability has demonstrated its potential effects in the realms of business, elections, and more, very little research has explored the effect of citizen accountability in highly ideological, intractable, and political conflicts. This article addresses this issue, looking at the unique interaction between accoun...

The deterioration of environment is one the major issues posed to modern human society. Some put their hopes on scientific and technological advancement advocate idea sustainable development ecological conservation; others hold that beings have been trapped by paradox between development. In a word, thinking discussion about has become hot topic. By narrating comparing ideologies natural from a...

Knowledge & the Ideological Constraint of Ambivalence James E. Monogan III (Under the direction of Marco R. Steenbergen.) The idea of a political culture of ambivalence posits that American society embraces conflicting values, ultimately leading citizens to have trouble settling their attitudes on public policy. Interestingly, little consideration has been given to the prospect that sophisticat...

The 2016 European Union (EU) refugee crisis exposed a fundamental distinction in political attitudes between the political left and right. Previous findings suggest, however, that besides political orientation, ideological strength (i.e., political extremism) is also relevant to understand such distinctive attitudes. Our study reveals that the political right is more anxious, and the political ...

The idea that power relations structure social life is self-evident to most anthropologists. Western medical knowledge or biomedicine, and by extension science or scientific knowledge, however, has until relatively recently been exempt from anthropological scrutiny in political terms. An understanding of biomedicine as a system of knowledge that is not a copy of facts but a representation of th...