This paper clarifi es some of the contested ideas put forward by John Stuart Mill by analyzing the reasons and arguments Mill used to support them and demonstrating how these ideas and arguments supporting them are connected into a coherent system. Mill’s theory is placed in wider explanatory framework of democratic legitimacy developed by Thomas Christiano, and is portrayed as a typical exampl...

Ostensibly theoretical disputes in political science often involve competing approaches to explanation. Competing positions include skepticism, covering law arguments, reconstructions of propensities, system models, and explanations featuring causal mechanisms. Mechanismand process-based accounts including cognitive, environmental, and relational effects deserve more attention than they have re...

The use of analogical arguments is most often associated with political argumentation. However, our previous studies have found that analogical arguments are not as convincing as factual arguments. Should politicians rethink their rhetorical techniques ? In this paper, several possible criticisms of previous findings are considered, to determine whether analogical arguments might be considered ...

the relation of pan-iranist party and the national front of iran until 1953 iranian coup d'état is of great importance in its periods of activity. this relation can be examined at two different levels: the obvious and pervasive support, and the opposition and separation. in the first period, the pan-iranist party supported the objectives and activities of the national front party, particul...

Abstract Do the styles politicians use influence how voters evaluate them, and does this matter more for women than men? Politicians regularly anecdotal arguments, emotional appeals aggressive attacks when communicating with voters. However, that have been branded as ‘nasty’, ‘inhuman’ ‘unfeminine’ suggests these strategies may come at a price some. I report on novel survey experiment assessing...

Scientific arguments showing 'how the world is' are fundamentally different from political assertions about 'how the world should be'. Ideologically motivated political attacks can hamper our understanding of mental disorders by preventing academics from pursuing research in contentious areas. Evidence should be countered by better evidence, not by shooting the messenger.

This paper focuses on a number of American stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. There are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the United States. Some of them are written by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair and Sidney Kingsley. After the publication of White Jacket by Melville the novel...