Deference and dissent strike a delicate balance in any polity. Insufficient deference to authority may incapacitate government, whereas too much may allow leaders to orchestrate mass violence. Although cross-national and cross-temporal variation in deference to authority and willingness to express dissent has long been studied in political science, rarely have scholars studied programs designed...

The aim of the research is to find out relationship between paternalistic leadership behaviours public primary school principals and teachers’ organizational creativity dissent perception levels according perceptions teachers. Correlational survey method was utilized in research. sample consists 1059 teachers working schools selected by methods stratified sampling Mardin city center 8 districts...

The main aim of this paper is to test the extent to which social acceptance moderates the impact of minority dissent on group cognitive complexity (GCC). We hypothesize that divergent views expressed by a minority increase GCC especially when the group climate is open to divergent contributions (e.g., a socially accepting group climate). We also hypothesize that group size has a non-linear asso...