Checking the truth value of political statements is difficult. Fact checking computationally has therefore not been very successful. An alternative to checking the truth value of a statement is to not consider the facts that are stated, but the way the statement is expressed. Using linguistic features from seven computational linguistic algorithms, we investigated whether truth-false statements...

Past research using self-report questionnaires administered to ordinary citizens demonstrates that value priorities differ as a function of one’s political ideology, but it is unclear whether this conclusion applies to political elites, who are presumably seeking to appeal to very broad constituencies. We used quantitative methods of textual analysis to investigate value-laden language in a col...

This essay will attempt, first and foremost, a definitive exposition of Marx’s theory of productive and unproductive labour.1 This theory is presented in the three volumes of Capital and in Theories of Surplus Value—Marx’s projected historico-critical fourth volume.2 This seems useful and necessary for several reasons. First, as one of the most suspect legacies of classical political economy, i...

In this paper, we examine the role of political connections by analyzing the short-and long-term performance of Chinese state owned enterprise (SOE) acquirers relative to private owned enterprise (POE) from 1994 to 2008. The empirical result shows that 1) SOE acquirers outperform the POE acquirer both in terms of long-run stock and operating performance; 2) announcement effect of POE acquirer t...

Abstract Values are often used to explain phenomena associated with problematic political behaviours. For example, the election of far-right parties is attributed traditional values. The ‘Cultural Backlash’ thesis (Inglehart and Norris in Cultural backlash: trump, Brexit, authoritarian populism. Cambridge University Press, 2017a) prominent this field research explains such behaviour by a predom...

Current debates in science and technology studies emphasize that the bioeconomy—or, the articulation of capitalism and biotechnology—is built on notions of commodity production, commodification, and materiality, emphasizing that it is possible to derive value from body parts, molecular and cellular tissues, biological processes, and so on. What is missing from these perspectives, however, is co...

This study draws on a comparative framework to evaluate the translation of political implications in three Persian translations of the novellaAnimal Farm (by George Orwell), using  Fairclough’scritical discourse analysis (CDA) model. The study regards political implications and ideologies as a mode of background knowledge shared by writers and audiences in the source language. Fairclough’s mode...