When do lawmakers craft broad policies, and when do they focus on narrow legislation tailored to a local interest? We investigate this question by exploring historical variation in the types of bills produced by American state legislatures. Drawing on a new database of 165,000 bills— covering sessions over 120 years in thirteen different states—we demonstrate the surprising prominence of partic...

Extinction Rebellion (XR) has rapidly risen to prominence in the last two years, but part because of group’s meteoric rise, there are relatively few academic analyses it. This paper draws on collective-action framing theory examine engagement one XR group – Norwich with notions climate justice. Drawing ten in-depth interviews conducted mid-2019, it argues that despite general concern for global...

Abstract Human tragedy could be summed up a single word—death. One first encounters it through the death of others, and then everyone faces for themselves. The Christian faith confronts humanity’s final foe head on, delivering sustained hope amidst sorrow despair impending death. This paper will address central role resurrection dead in First Corinthians. Second, present Paul’s retort to severa...

While the digitalisation of political parties is increasingly analysed, less attention has been paid to evolution digital procedures and their consequences on intra-party democracy party change. We propose a typology for identifying different types processes (consolidation, reconfiguration, mutation, elimination) using Spanish Podemos paradigmatic case. Our analysis points out centrality hard s...

Experimental and field research has demonstrated a pervasive tendency toward pairwise conformity among individuals connected by positive social ties, and work using formal models has shown that opinions on connected influence networks should thus converge toward uniformity. Observing that diversity persists even in small scale groups and organizations, we investigate two empirically grounded me...

Chiropractic is an important component of the US health care system and the largest alternative medical profession. In this overview of chiropractic, we examine its history, theory, and development; its scientific evidence; and its approach to the art of medicine. Chiropractic's position in society is contradictory, and we reveal a complex dynamic of conflict and diversity. Internally, chiropra...

Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient transaction rules. Formal rules (e.g., laws, policies) must be nested in hospitable behavioural norms and values. Cultural collectivism in many of these countries and consequent group-oriented values, factionalism, a...