The rising partisan animus between Democrats and Republicans has significant consequences for American society, both political nonpolitical. present study used two preregistered randomized controlled designs to investigate whether scalable meditation interventions could reduce affective polarization, relative baseline scores measured 1 week earlier, in adults (Study 1: N = 353; Study 2: 246) wh...

Drawing on social-movement and sociolegal theorizing, we investigate legal-framing innovations in the briefs of reproductive-rights cause lawyers prominent US Supreme Court abortion cases. Our results show that pro-choice activist attorneys engage innovative women’s-rights framing when political-legal context is more resistant to rights for women, is, opportunity structure generally closed acti...

This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion movements in different state arenas and political contexts. It details the emergence of a strategic action field on abortion during the Brazilian re-democratization process and the National Constituent Assembly. We offer analysis on pro-choice ...

Little is known about how the political orientations and party affiliations of ordinary Americans impact their perceptions of China. Based on our surveys, we find that partisanship does indeed impact American views of China. Self-reported “conservatives” perceive significantly greater threat in China’s rise, hold more negative views of the Chinese government, exhibit more prejudice towards the ...

Social democratic parties have experienced a profound electoral crisis in recent years. We study who still supports the centre-left by analysing two different ties to social democracy: vote choice and party identification. develop simple typology, which categorises voters into ‘core supporters’, ‘distant ‘demobilised supporters’ ‘non-supporters’. While demobilised supporters identify with but d...

We investigated how political party affiliation and political attitudes modulate neural activity while viewing faces of presidential candidates. Ten registered Democrats and 10 registered Republicans were scanned in an event-related functional MRI paradigm while viewing pictures of the faces of George Bush, John Kerry, and Ralph Nader during the 2004 United States presidential campaign. We foun...

The Liberal Democrats’ performance in the 2015 general election provides an opportunity to examine the only case in the post-war period of a national junior coalition partner in British politics. Comparative research highlights competence, trust and leadership as three key challenges facing junior coalition parties. This article uses British Election Study data to show that the Liberal Democrat...

This thesis probes into the issue on pro-life and pro-choice contentions in Joyce Carol Oates’s: A Book of American Martyrs. Karl Marx explains how capitalists maneuver deferred redemption intrinsic religion per se to exploit oppress workers re-enforce capitalism proper. In novel, transformation Luther Gus provides a convincible account for Luther’s frenzy Gus’s irreligion. discusses argues tha...

A backlash against liberal gender and sexuality attitudes has been an issue in many societies, especially post-Communist. However, it takes a different shape each socio–cultural context. This article contributes to academic debates about neo-traditionalism the post-Soviet space focuses specifically on Armenia. It points at some possible mechanisms that make these societies look more neo-traditi...

Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) was developed over 20 years ago to rescue higher-order multifetal pregnancies and has become a major component of improving the outcomes in infertility therapies. By definition, MFPR will always be controversial, but opinions do not follow the traditional "pro-life/pro-choice" dichotomy that has sabotaged the more generalized abortion debate. If one defines...