Are there systematic political economy factors that shape preferences for foreign aid, a key component of American foreign policy? We analyze votes in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 2003 that would increase or decrease foreign aid by considering the political, economic, and ideological characteristics of legislators and their districts. To understand who supports and opposes foreign ...

Abstract This article will analyze the current ideological and political issues in vocational education use VSBPC model as a starting point to them all. Philosophical concepts, fundamental ideas, beliefs, mindsets, management needs interests about distribution of money. Religion Politics is an important battle between religion politics colleges universities way for college students develop idea...

Automatically detecting the stance of people toward political and ideological topics –namely their “Ideological Perspective”– from social media is a rapidly growing research area with a wide range of applications. Research in such a field faces several challenges among which is the lack of annotated corpora and associated guidelines for collecting annotations. The problem is even more pronounce...

Identity, multiculturalism and integration are inherently intertwined for immigrants as the creation of a new multicultural identity determines how successful an individual will be at integrating into a new environment. This paper investigates repeat migration and questions if and how different forms of migration impact the process identity integration. It examines the topic using a single case...

This summer, Europe's Journal of Psychology hosts a fruitful discussion about phenomenology, its method, the possibilities of application in today's context and its current troubled waters stemming from recent historical-ideological debates. Prof. Roberta De Monticelli offers lush and informative answers to provocative issues like overdriving the epoché, Heidegger's dark undertones, the relatio...

The World Health Report 2000, prepared by the World Health Organization, presented performance rankings of 191 nations’ health care systems. These rankings have been widely cited in public debates about health care, particularly by those interested in reforming the U.S. health care system to resemble more closely those of other countries. Michael Moore, for instance, famously stated in his film...

Background Civilizations change over the time, and so does its ideologies. Over a period, new beliefs are introduced in the society, which at times sharply contradict the previous convictions. In a society, diverse opinions exist in the competitive state with an original opinion at a prospect of being replaced by new one. Fashion fad, cultural trends, ideological conversions, product adoption, ...

We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online communication resembles an “echo chamber” (as a result of selective exposure and ideological segregation) or a “national conversation.” We observed that information was exchanged primarily among individuals ...

The AOD field, like most other areas of professional endeavour, relies increasingly on research to direct and shape policies, practice and service delivery. The challenge of translating research findings to day-to-day reality and of identifying best practice is an emerging contemporary issue which raises important issues from a workforce development perspective. Some of these issues are technic...