The “rally ‘round the flag” effect literature has focused too narrowly on the United States, limiting our ability to understand whether rally effects are a generic product of democratic political institutions or a product of the particular political culture and geopolitical status of the U.S. This article takes a step towards remedying this problem by conducting the most systematic study to dat...

This 24-nation European–US study (1999–2000) of the democratic political values, attitudes, and behavior of adolescents uncovers a generally high level of self-predicted future political participation as adults. Four of five14-year-olds regard themselves as future voters, and 61% predict involvement in protest activities. Moreover, law breaking as an act of protest is almost as attractive in th...

abstract from historical view point geopolitical factors have encouraged the politicians to be ambitious. countries of the world by making use of geopolitical potentials try to maintain stability and promote their status in world affairs. among the countries of the persian gulf region qatar is one of those countries which in recent regional developments have had geopolitical dynamic and have pl...

Abstract The paper argues that one of the reasons suppression scientific dissent during Covid pandemic has been so severe was because dominant narrative turned into a political myth, i.e. mobilizing groups in support key moral values. Taking example vaccination, I show values with which it became linked Czechia. Questioning vaccination came to be seen as endangering these values, made appear pa...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

Would the third-wave democracies have been democratized without prior modernization? What proportion of the past militarized disputes between nondemocracies would have been prevented had those dyads been democratic? Although political scientists often ask these questions of causal attribution, existing quantitative methods fail to address them. This article proposes an alternative statistical m...

The formation and study of natural history and paleontology collections was part of the installation of political order under the Empire of Brazil, as well as the establishment of a scientific program. The symbiosis between science and the nation was actively promoted by Peter W. Lund, pioneer of paleontology studies in the country. The collections and writings produced by the naturalist lent s...

Indicators that rank countries according socioeconomic measurements are important tools for regional development and political reform. Those currently in widespread use are sometimes criticized for a lack of reproducibility or the inability to compare values over time, necessitating simple, fast and systematic measures. Here, we applied the 'guilt by association' principle often used in biologi...

Scientists often Ž nd diμ culty in engaging in formal public debate about transcientiŽ c social issues. Although science is a highly disputatious institution, public argumentation amongst scientists follows very di¶ erent conventional practices from those that rule in political and legal arenas. Amongst other di¶ erentiating features, scientiŽ c disputes are typically conducted in writing rathe...