A Preface to American Political Theory.

Political Conflicts in the Shadow of Violence: A Preface to a Theory on the Nature and the Timing of Political Stabilizations in Crisis Situations

I develop a theory of political conflict in the shadow of violence in light of various domestic and international crisis situations ranging from transitional, revolutionary, and anti-colonial conflicts to internationalization of such conflicts. This theory is particularly concerned with the nature and the timing of political stabilization processes with respect to the military capabilities, ins...

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...

Preface DESERVING THEORY

Deserving, including equity and fairness, lies at the heart of social–moral cognition. The deserving schema—your deserts should be proportional to your deserving—is age-old. The idea of an algebraic model of proportionality goes back to Aristotle and was much discussed in the latter half of the 20 century in terms of equity theory. But to judge proportionality we must be able to measure how muc...

From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Languages (Preface)

American Political Polarization

In 2008, when fresh-faced presidential candidate Barack Obama coasted to electoral victory, it was clear that the world had ended. Flabbergastingly, in an insane display of misjudgment, the American people had elected to office a president who, according to one prominent GOP member, would 'pal around with terrorists,' a president whose socialistic temperaments signaled the dawn of a new and dar...