The first part of this essay considers Sri Aurobindo’s nationalism and contextualizes it within the colonial-national interchange and the modern understanding of the nation. It then problematizes Hindutva’s attempts to reductively appropriate Sri Aurobindo’s pluralistic and evolutionary nationalism. In the second part, a close reading is conducted of a well-known nationalist speech of Sri Aurob...

This paper offers an approach to analyzing political rhetoric in videogames intended to carry ideological bias, based on cognitive linguist George Lakoff’s notion of metaphor and frame as the principle organizers or political discourse. I then argue for three ways games function in relation to ideological frames: reinforcement, contestation, and exposition through examples of political games (T...

This paper investigates convergence in left-right ideological positions in The Netherlands using cointegration techniques. Our sample consists of 765 weekly observations on those positions as well as on the corresponding political party preference. The time series data display nonstationary patterns in the sense that their means are not constant over time. Therefore, we rely on recently develop...

We study political activism by several interest groups with private signals. When their ideological distance to the policymaker is small, a “low-trust” regime prevails: agents frequently lobby even when it is unwarranted, taking advantage of the conŽ rmation provided by others’ activism; conversely, the policymaker responds only to generalized pressure. When ideological distance is large, a “hi...

Television news has been the predominant way of understanding the world around us, but individual news broadcasters can frame or mislead audience’s understanding about political and social issues. We aim to develop a computer system that can automatically identify highly biased television news, which may prompt audience to seek news stories from contrasting viewpoints. But can computers determi...

The article shows the strengthening of Soviet power in Turkestan, military-political processes country based on materials "Gornist" newspaper. Also, structural structure newspaper, topics covered it, its place ideological and politics, etc., are explained information from a number sources.

Four studies demonstrated both the power of group influence in persuasion and people's blindness to it. Even under conditions of effortful processing, attitudes toward a social policy depended almost exclusively upon the stated position of one's political party. This effect overwhelmed the impact of both the policy's objective content and participants' ideological beliefs (Studies 1-3), and it ...

FirstpubIished in Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences Vol. IX (1941), thearticle is a large-scale investigation of that "fetish "of technique, ortechnical efficiency, which, after 1941, represented for critical theory, especially for Marcuse, the key ideological replacement of the commodity fetish under modern industralized authoritarian states. With respect to Marcuse's better-known late...

The Semple antirabies vaccine was developed by David Semple in India in 1911. Semple introduced a peculiarly British approach within the Pasteurian tradition by using carbolized dead virus. This article studies this unique phase of vaccine research between 1910 and 1935 to show that in the debates and laboratory experiments around the potency and safety of vaccines, categories like "living" and...