Drawing upon problems of interpretation in political sociological research, this article questions the common practice of lumping together moral traditionalism and authoritarianism. First, it is demonstrated that of the two only moral traditionalism relates to religious orthodoxy. Second, the well-established strong correlation between both value orientations proves to be caused, in the case at...

This paper compares and contrasts Michael Huemer’s Principle of Phenomenal Conservatism with Husserl’s well-known Principle of All Principles. Despite some similarities, I argue that the two are quite different. I examine several cases in which the theories provide different assessments of a belief’s epistemic status, and argue that Husserl’s gives the correct answer in each case. I also argue ...

Since the process of modernism in Iranian architecture and after formation of the post-modernist thought, tendency to apply some of the principles, concepts and elements of traditional architecture became widespread. Traditionalism approach in the course of different eras of Iranian Architecture, before and after revolution in Iran; has appeared in different ways and intentions. The thought fie...

this paper examines the relationship between accounting conservatism and informational content of earnings using data of 167 firms listed on the tehran stock exchange during 2004-2013. accounting conservatism is measured based on khan and watts' (2009) model and feltham and ohlsson (1995) price model and easton and hariss (1991) return models were used to evaluate the informational content...

Abstract With the beginning of a partial modernisation in Afghanistan late 19th century there emerged pattern opposition to this process. Often described as traditionalism it aimed not only at maintaining status quo but had demodernising twist seeking establishment an alternative socio-political order pursuing demodernisation dressed traditionalist Islamic or tribal rhetoric undermining traditi...

Political conservatism is associated with an increased negativity bias, including increased attention and reactivity toward negative and threatening stimuli. Although the human amygdala has been implicated in the response to threatening stimuli, no studies to date have investigated whether conservatism is associated with altered amygdala function toward threat. Furthermore, although an influent...

In important cases, the Supreme Court has limited the scope of "substantive due process" by reference to tradition, but it has yet to explain why it has done so. Due process traditionalism might be defended in several distinctive ways. The most ambitious defense draws on a set of ideas associated with Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek, who suggested that traditions have special credentials by vi...

We investigate the impact of cultural dimension on energy poverty—a topic hitherto overlooked in literature—employing panel fixed effects, logistic, and heteroskedasticity identified endogenous variable regression estimators. The framework incorporates 103 countries over a period 1971–2018. Using five different proxies representing dimensions other demographic macroeconomic control variables, e...