Why do new parties split? Scholars of new party schisms shy away from leadership-centred explanations for fear of excessive voluntarism and thus fail to conceptualise differences between leaders systematically. This article challenges that trend, arguing that externally appealing, internally dominant leaders generate cohesion in new parties. It analyses why some externally appealing leaders are...

The 1979 religious ideological revolution of Iran brought about a double stance towards the body and its pictorial representations, as to drawing a schism between the physiological and the cultural aspects of the body. Studying this schism is important particularly due to its significance in figuring out the features and functions of what in this article will be called “the ideological body”. B...

Schism The noun schism (schisma) which occurs eight times in the New Testament, is derived from the verb schizo to split, to separate, to tear apart, to cleave, to rend. Schisma can sometimes simply mean an actual tear, as in Matthew 9: 16 where Jesus says 'No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made' (cf. Lk. 5: 3...

Bryan Dowd (2010) should be commended for laying before us the historical roots of the tensions between statisticians and econometricians which, until today, perpetuate the myth that causal inference is somehow confusing, enigmatic, or controversial. While modern analysis has proven this myth baseless, it is often the historical accounts that put things in the proper perspective. I see the tens...

one of the social functions of holy quran in human life from allmah tabatabaie's point of view is the creation and expansion of social unity. he considers the unity as an element causing the honor and power of the muslim community and regards it as god's gift. he believes that quranic suggestion for achieving this goal is to have plan for its expansion not just in words but in practic...