In our study we investigated the motivational and ideological correlates of the approval of welfare services in postsocialist Central Eastern and Western Europe. In the centre of our inquiry stood how the motivations of selflessness and conventionality, along with distributional justice principles, are related to our welfare preferences beyond our rational self-interest, furthermore, how these ...

The accumulating scientific evidence -- across many disciplines -- regarding human evolution and the dualities and complexities of human nature indicates that the core ideological assumptions of both capitalism and socialism are simplistic and ultimately irreconcilable. A biologically grounded approach to social justice enables us to articulate a new ideological paradigm that I call ''Fair Shar...

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: 1) Language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions. 2) Connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhe...

Antitrust theory is notoriously fractured along ideological lines. Interventionists stand ready to regulate at a moment’s notice, seeing anticompetitive effects lurking in the shadows every time competitors so much as exchange greetings on the street. The Hyde Park crowd responds to what they see as unjustified paranoia with quasireligious faith in the self-regulating efficiency of markets, tru...

Why do voters finance the candidates, even the out-of-district one? Previous studies suggest physical closeness, ideological appeal, material gain, and personal resource. Yet studies based on self-report survey or aggregate-level post-election data blur the causal linkage between candidate’s appeal and voters’ motivation. In this article, we combine and exploit two unique datasets from a candid...

The current paper examines the ways the concepts of ̳home‘ and ̳belonging‘ are conceived, accepted, and imagined by the characters of Sam Selvon‘s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Hanif Kureishi‘s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990). Taken from two different but close-knit periods in twentieth-century Eng- land, the 1950s and the late 1970s, the novels represent the socio-political circumstances that fo...