Democratic engagement as denudation: Moving beyond risk taking

The democratic engagement of BritainŁs ethnic minorities

Democratic engagement is a multi-faceted phenomenon that embraces citizens’ involvement with electoral politics, their participation in ‘conventional’ extra-parliamentary political activity, their satisfaction with democracy and trust in state institutions, and their rejection of the use of violence for political ends. Evidence from the 2010 BES and EMBES shows that there are important variatio...

Plan Explanations as Model Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Explanation as Soliloquy

The ability to explain the rationale behind a planner’s deliberative process is crucial to the realization of effective humanplanner interaction. However, in the context of human-inthe-loop planning, a significant challenge towards providing meaningful explanations arises due to the fact that the actor (planner) and the observer (human) are likely to have different models of the world, leading ...

Taking stock, moving forward: the Internet, social networks and civic engagement in Chinese societies

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Beyond Bristol: taking responsibility.

Beyond sensation seeking: affect regulation as a framework for predicting risk-taking behaviors in high-risk sport.

Sensation seeking has been widely studied when investigating individual differences in the propensity for taking risks. However, risk taking can serve many different goals beyond the simple management of physiological arousal. The present study is an investigation of affect self-regulation as a predictor of risk-taking behaviors in high-risk sport. Risk-taking behaviors, negative affectivity, e...