In his recent book Left Turn, Tim Groseclose concludes that, in a world without media bias, the average American voter would be positioned at around 25 on a 0–100 scale, where 0 is a right-wing Republican and 100 is a left-wing Democrat. In this world, a balanced media might include some TV networks promoting the view that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances and subject to crimin...

Introduction One purpose of public schools in the United States is to foster democratic citizenship. On this basic purpose progressives and conservatives agree, although there is great disagreement regarding what type of citizenship should be encouraged as well as what types of activities will promote or foster citizenship. It is in part this politically charged nature of public schools that ma...

a commonly desired ultimate foundation or ground is full unity, community, or consensus, which is often, if not typically, figured as lost or perhaps lacking, usually because of the intrusive presence of others seen as outsiders or polluters of the city or the body politic. One may, however, insist that such unity, community, or consensus is absent and that the sociopolitical problem is how to ...

The significance of high or low right-wing authoritarianism on rape myth acceptance in female college students was investigated. One hundred and fifty-eight college undergraduates answered an anonymous questionnaire containing a modified version of Altemeyer’s (1996) Right-Wing Authoritarian Scale (RWA) and Burt’s (1980) Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (RMA) and related subscales: acceptance of inte...

This essay asks how conceptualizing love as work might provide a fresh perspective on love’s politics. In offering an ethnographic account of for Gau-Mata, the Cow-Mother idealized Hindu nation, fuels right-wing nationalist politics cow-protection in India’s central Himalayan state Uttarakhand, I suggest that specific arrangements labor through which affective attachments are organized critical...

Asymmetry is a difference in the sizes of bilaterally paired structures. Wing asymmetry may have an effect on the kinematics of flight, with knock-on effects for the energetic cost of flying. In this study the 13C-labelled bicarbonate technique was used to measure the energy expended during the flight of zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata, prior to and after experimental manipulation to generate...

Social media are used by an increasing number of political actors. A small subset of these is interested in pursuing extremist motives such as mobilization, recruiting or radicalization activities. In order to counteract these trends, online providers and state institutions reinforce their monitoring efforts, mostly relying on manual workflows. We propose a machine learning approach to support ...