Every year since 1957, the Harvard Law Review has published a matrix of the voting patterns of the previous Supreme Court term (Harvard Law Review, 1957). This matrix includes how often two justices vote together in cases as well as the total number of possible cases that any two justices could have voted together. From this tabular data it is possible to derive the normalized frequency with wh...

AIMS This study explores whether there is evidence of an ideological component in the psychological contracts of professional employees, as well as evidence of credible supporting commitments by their employer. BACKGROUND Fundamental changes in the employment context have prompted many individuals to seek a closer alignment between themselves and their work, as well as with the organizational...

Political polarization is traditionally analyzed through the ideological stances of groups and parties, but it also has a behavioral component that manifests in the interactions between individuals. We present an empirical analysis of the digital traces of politicians in politnetz.ch, a Swiss online platform focused on political activity, in which politicians interact by creating support links,...

The rapid and continuous growth of social networking sites has led to the emergence of many communities of communicating groups. Many of these groups discuss ideological and political topics. It is not uncommon that the participants in such discussions split into two or more subgroups. The members of each subgroup share the same opinion toward the discussion topic and are more likely to agree w...

Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a transnational ideology which legitimises them. In other words, an ideology to justify, on the one hand, the minimisation of the state’s role in the economy —which, in a market economy system implies a corresponding maximisation of the role of the market and private capital— and, on the othe...

august of 1941 coincided with the reza shah’s exile and opening of the cultural and political environment in iran. the tudeh party gained more power, albeit it owed its power to the presence of former soviet :union:s troops in iran during world war ii. after withdrawal of soviet troops from iran, members and supporters of the party wondered what would happen to the party and its members and sup...

The article presents and substantiates the humanitarian component of proactive education model in context global transformations given influence modern threats challenges (technological, biogenic, socio-cultural, etc.). In framework Russia’s contemporary policy, authors present key elements under survey (professional competences, ideological values, spiritual-patriotic humanitarian-ecological c...