The theoretical virtue of parsimony values the minimizing of theoretical commitments, but theoretical commitments come in two kinds: ontological and ideological. While the ontological commitments of a theory are the entities it posits, a theory’s ideological commitments are the primitive concepts it employs. Here, I show how we can extend the distinction between quantitative and qualitative par...

Abstract. This paper considers an alternating offer legislative bargaining game with heterogeneous ideological preferences modeled as ideal points on an interval. The main contribution is a framework for measuring two forces that typically give proposers incentive to form coalitions out of either the left or right halves of the ideological spectrum “polar coalitions”. For a benchmark model with...

According to the Religious Openness Hypothesis, the religious and psychological openness of American Christians is obscured by a defensive ghettoization of thought associated with a Religious Fundamentalist Ideological Surround and can be discovered instead within a Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surround. A test of this claim examined Religious Fundamentalism, Biblical Foundationalism, Q...

A number of studies on political representation focus on the comparative assessments of citizen ideological congruence. But this literature has largely overlooked an important topic: the representation of social groups. While present studies of congruence investigate whether some countries perform better than others in terms of the levels of median citizen congruence, they cannot say much about...

islamic consciousness is set of people-revolutionaries which has being started at late 2010 s, including rising and rebelling of bahrainian on 14th feb. 2011. but this rising is different from others because of bahrain media's trying as well as western governing's efforts about clannish so that it is adapted as shiite cultism, belligerent antagonistic motion against sunnite. the topic...

terrorism is a violent action with special features; terrorists are different than other criminals too and it is not possible to judge them as crazy criminals or a person with deviant character or someone who is affected by the inappropriate financial circumstances. terrorists are individuals with planed acts faced to the specific aims which are prompted by the ideological motives. in this thes...

in any political system, recognition of constitutional keywords is an important pathway for understanding constitutional system desirably. the recognition matters increasingly, when a keyword is rooted in constitutional system&aposs; ideological bases and its underlying political theory. ummah, a term with religious and islamic theme, has come from religious literature into the constitution of ...

In the standard Downsian model, voters are assumed to choose parties based on the extent of ideological proximity between the voter’s own position and that of the party. Yet it is also well known that there are rationalization and projection effects such that voters tend to misestimate the policy platforms of candidates or parties to which they are sympathetic by overstating the correspondence ...

The development and continuous improvement of campus networks brings new changes to the campus and college life, more and more students are turning to micro-blog to express their views and opinions, and through the micro blogging to achieve fast and efficient sharing and exchange of information and resources. In the micro blog era, the power of micro blogging can not only impact college student...