Terminal Time is a history "engine:" a machine which combines historical events, ideological rhetoric, familiar forms of TV documentary, consumer polls and artificial intelligence algorithms to create hybrid cinematic experiences for mass audiences that are different every time. Through an audience response measuring device connected to a computer, viewing audiences respond to periodic question...

Replies to comments by M. Glassman and D. Karno and R. K. Unger, on the author's original article on ideology. J. T. Jost thanks Glassman and Karno for returning him to his philosophical roots. Glassman and Karno argued in favor of an "instrumental pragmatist" approach to the study of ideology that emphasizes the strategic, purposive, goal-directed nature of political rhetoric and belief. He ag...

Many empirical works have been devoted to analysing the factors explaining local privatisation. Overall, most of the empirical analyses have low explanatory power due to the methodological difficulties in capturing the dynamic nature of the privatisation decision. The variables most often considered are those related to fiscal stress and cost reduction and political processes and ideological at...

The practice of medicine by clergymen aroused considerable anger in early seventeenth-century England. This has frequently been noted by historians but the nature of the critique has been obscured by inattention to the religious character of the attack. Clerical practitioners are often depicted as being so widespread in early modem England that they constituted a "dominant group in the medical ...

Why are American politicians “single-minded seekers of reelection” in some decades and fierce ideological warriors in others? This article argues that the key to understanding the behavior of members inside a legislative chamber is to follow the actions of key figures outside the chamber. These outsiders—activists, interest groups, and party bosses—use their control over party nominations, cond...

In this paper we model the interaction between parties and candidates to highlight the mechanisms by which parties selecting candidates may discipline legislators. Parties are long-lived organizations providing incentives to short-lived candidates. The incentive problem parties face is very similar to the problem faced by firms that try to motivate workers. However parties are different from fi...

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 ...

after the collapse of the left extreme ideological camp (communism) in leadership with soviet :union: in 90’s; that must be consider along the collapse of the right extreme ideological camp (fascism) in the mid of twentieth century; the middle right ideological camp (liberalism) in leadership of industrial world countries, to celebrate this victory along with globalization age. in the meantime,...