terrorism is a violent action with special features; terrorists are different than other criminals too and it is not possible to judge them as crazy criminals or a person with deviant character or someone who is affected by the inappropriate financial circumstances. terrorists are individuals with planed acts faced to the specific aims which are prompted by the ideological motives. in this thes...

WAR as a vehicle and Sport Is War as a conceptual metaphor (CM) seem inadequate to account metaphorically for SPORT. To cater for an inclusive vehicle/CM, we selected WIN and LOSS lexicon from the news coverage of Brazil’s football team loss to Germany and tested them through the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Then, the data were studied through the 3 stages of metaphor research. In t...

The development and continuous improvement of campus networks brings new changes to the campus and college life, more and more students are turning to micro-blog to express their views and opinions, and through the micro blogging to achieve fast and efficient sharing and exchange of information and resources. In the micro blog era, the power of micro blogging can not only impact college student...

althusser (1918-1990) argues that there are two ways to maintain power. in order to hold power, the ruling class in a pre-capitalist society depends on repressive apparatuses such as police and military force whereas in a modern capitalist society it chooses to use ideological apparatuses like religion, education or arts. bamdede khomar is the story of eighty years of development in iranian soc...

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...

what happened in recent decades in collapse of several states and birth of new ones, raised serious questions about the legal aspects of the problem. does international community actually endorse the unilateral secession to create new states? what could be the real impacts of recent cases like kosovo and ossetia on the future of international legal order? the present article tries to find these...

This paper extends Ellis and Stimson’s (Ideology in America. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2012) study of the operational-symbolic paradox using issue-level measures of ideological incongruence based on respondent positions and symbolic labels for these positions across 14 issues. Like Ellis and Stimson, we find that substantial numbers—over 30 %—of Americans experience conflicted conser...

Recent research has shown dramatic benefits to incorporating social media in public facing websites. Using a perspective based on the duality of goals, we argue that social media, with emphasis on facilitating visitors’ unconstrained exchanges, may undermine the communicative purpose of an organization’s website and may not be desirable in some cases. We tested these ideas by examining the soci...

In this paper we propose a model in which there are ideological and strategic voters who vote under poportional rule. We prove that the behavior of ideological voters matters for the determination of the outcome. We show that a subset of strategic voters partially counteracts the votes of the ideological voters. JEL Classification Numbers: C72, D72.