How much does factual information affect political attitudes? I address that question through a case study of attitudes toward the estate tax. Drawing on two original survey experiments, I demonstrate that correct information about who actually pays the estate tax does increase support for the estate tax. Preferences shifts caused by this information were approximately as large as those caused ...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of science related and other arguments in the development of workplace smoking regulations. DESIGN Case study, content analysis SUBJECTS Written commentaries and hearing transcripts on proposed indoor air regulations in Maryland and Washington. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES We coded each written commentary and hearing testimony for position toward the regulation, affil...

This article employs political ecology and common property theory to examine sea turtle conservation, how it is articulated and executed at different sociopolitical and geographic scales, and the consequences for local rights of access to resources. It draws on ten years of research at various field sites in Costa Rica, and on sea turtle conservation policy in general, to show that although mos...

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), attributing a particular importance to “woman” -in the narrow senseand to all oppressed groups -in the broad sense-, has a peculiar position in the history of political thoughts. Taking a position different from the modern male thinkers in her era, she expanded such ideas as “reason”, “natural rights”, “social contract” towards relations between genders and patr...

As online consumer reviews have tremendously gained in importance for consumer decision-making and firm strategies, scholars have greatly advanced our understanding of the effect of various review characteristics on review helpfulness and product sales. However, the question of what actually causes variations in these review characteristics remains largely unexplored. This study addresses this ...

This paper discusses the results of research on young immigrants’ political participation on the Internet in Germany. The research focuses on young people from Turkish and East European backgrounds. The interrelation between offline political activities and online political participation is explained and the differences between the two groups are examined. While young German Turks are particula...

Multiple national constitutional courts are raising ‘identitarian arguments’ to counter primacy as the ‘fundamental and political structure’ of State concerned comes at stake. This work questions whether such arguments acceptable, which extent, from perspective evolution occurred in legal interpretation during European integration process. It appears that their persuasiveness is most intense if...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

arguments for the recognition of cultural diversity have led to a fundamental question in political theory: on what basis the process of political decision making should be formed to accommodate cultural diversity as a permanent feature of contemporary societies? the aim of this paper is to examine whether 'dialogue' can be employed as a means in such a process. the first section of this paper...