Unlike his theory of justice as fairness, John Rawls’s political liberalism has generally been spared from critiques regarding what is due to the disabled. This paper demonstrates that, due to the account of the basic ideas of society and persons provided by Rawls, political liberalism requires that the interests of numerous individuals with disabilities should be put aside when the most fundam...

The spatial imaginations of media studies and urban studies are becoming increasingly aligned, illustrated by a growing and diverse literature on what can be identified as a media-urban nexus. This nexus has attracted scholarly interest not only as a social or cultural phenomenon, but also as a site of emergent political dynamics. We reconstruct the shared terrain in which the phenomenology of ...

The spatial imaginations of media studies and urban studies are becoming increasingly aligned, illustrated by a growing and diverse literature on what can be identified as a media-urban nexus. This nexus has attracted scholarly interest not only as a social or cultural phenomenon, but also as a site of emergent political dynamics. We reconstruct the shared terrain in which the phenomenology of ...

Previous scholarship suggests that rising inequality in democracies suppresses trust institutions. However, the mechanism behind this has not clearly been identified. This paper investigates proposition income leads to increased democratic distrust by depressing perceptions of external efficacy. Based on time-series cross-sectional survey data from European Social Survey, we find changes have a...

Abstract The Political Efficacy Short Scale (PESS) is the English-language adaptation of German-language Kurzskala (PEKS); it measures perceived political efficacy with four items. PESS comprises two subscales—internal and external efficacy—with items each. Internal refers to belief in one’s own effectiveness; responsiveness system citizens’ concerns. Completion time for all less than 30 s. sou...

Young people’s involvement in violent extremism remains a concern many countries, including Indonesia. This study examined direct and indirect relationships between indicators of existential anxiety, political efficacy, extrinsic religiosity, support for extremism. Two hundred ten young Indonesians were recruited to the all completed an anonymous online survey containing measures interest. The ...