With widespread democratic backsliding globally, people’s support for democracy-eroding leaders is receiving overdue attention. But existing studies have difficulty disentangling contextual effects (such as who in power at the time of survey) from individual differences (like which party one supports and how strongly). Moreover, we lack evidence on causal antecedents these attitudes. We propose...

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The Palestinian sources of alarm are many. They wonder where the western countries' moral and legal outrage was regarding clear instances international standards violations, like Israeli occupation Palestine since 1948. Palestinians see double in policies. Many find West's approaches to threatening national security Russia through separating Ukraine from its Russian roots, a closer association ...

Abstract In a 2020 article in Analysis, Lippert-Rasmussen argues that the moral equality account of hypocrite’s lack standing to blame fails. To object this account, considers contrary hypocrisy: hypercrisy. article, I show if hypercrisy is problem for it also Lippert-Rasmussen’s own why hypocrites blame. then reflect on and hypercrite’s self-blame, which reveals challenge poses accounts differ...

Sexual assault programming is often delivered without a theoretical framework and does not typically utilize applicable research that could help to induce change among participants. Such interventions may target male and/or female students, although the focus of this review is on men. It is important to examine these programs in light of current theoretical knowledge and empirical findings from...

Over the past two decades, Western political leaders have scripted a more ethical foreign policy, wherein far greater weight is given to protecting the rights and freedoms of extraterritorial citizens. Using the example of arms exports to developing countries, the present paper exposes the organized hypocrisy underlying countries’ self-declared ethical turn. We show that the major Western arms ...

There is a bizarre piece of medical hypocrisy : in the preface, the names and qualifications of the doctors concerned are splendidly rolled out. In the text, however, they are given pseudonyms, " in the best and most scrupulous tradition of the medical profession Both men must be a shade too gentle since they left their patient at large after she had attempted to strangle her daughter. Surprisi...