Research on adult populations has widely investigated the deep differences that characterize individuals who embrace either conservative or liberal views of the world. More recently, research has started to investigate these differences at very early stages of life. One major goal is to explore how parental political ideology may influence children's characteristics that are known to be associa...

Liberal government, as analysed by Foucault, is a project of measured, utilitarian political activity, that takes ‘population’ its object, dating back to the late 17th century. The rise nationalism, authoritarianism and populism directly challenges this project, seeking re-introduce excessive, gratuitous performative modes power into liberal societies. This article examines relationship tension...

Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psycho...

this article explain unsuccessful iranian intellectuals' attempts in the fields of thoughts and politics through surveying ideas of ehsan tabari and jalal ale-ahmad. it tries to show that theirs ideas have been under hegemony of political formalism; so their naïve attitudes has converted their thought to an ideology which serve to political aims based on a political formalism. this article...

Investigation and thinking on concepts such as knowledge, power and legitimacy is considered one of the most important subjects in this study.Till now, the concepts of knowledge and power by using Foucault's discourse on Ghazali political thought, have not studied by researchers And this is may be one of the innovations of this research. Of course, in this article we will act descriptive – anal...

A rich literature has noted political business cycles in democracies. We argue that an autocracy with strong bureaucratic institutions, the pressure of evaluation and promotion also generated tax-break policies. Furthermore, timing content have driven leaders to use tax breaks strategically build economic performance, producing distributional consequences. Combining panel data 1,510,153 firm-ye...