Aleinu, a prayer that initially left us with questions, contains interesting qualities. It comprises the text has changed its tone over generations. Having become more peaceful and perhaps accepting, Aleinu kept power to bind Jewish people together as reminder praise God collectively. Co-existence of both particularistic universalistic themes in such short piece liturgy is quite powerful thing....

Abstract While a large body of literature empirically documents an electoral advantage for local candidates, the exact mechanisms accounting this effect remain less clear. We integrate theories on political geography candidate-voter relations with socio-psychological accounts citizens’ attachment, arguing that citizens vote candidates from their own communities as expression place-based identit...

In an important scholarly intervention on African publics, Raufu Mustapha argues that the multiplicity of publics is not obstacle but instead a creative resource can be used to forge common purpose through public deliberation. However, he does elaborate how operates and what effect. this article, we examine dynamics among student teachers in South Africa. Teachers inculcate dispositions habits ...

Although long championed, a global language has not come to fruition despite considerable efforts. Many fear that such a language would undermine the particularistic, identity-constituting primary languages of local and national communities. These concerns can be addressed at least in part by utilizing a two-tiered approach in which efforts to protect primary languages are intensified at the sa...

Louis said from the grave, If I am Remembered, don't make me a sham Of a nice Jewish boy, Or the life of a goy (Not to shul [1], Christmas tree [2], and ate ham [3]). False biography would be a flaw-Don't recount what would stick in my craw And thus bring me to grief. For my spiritual brief Was Democracy. Ideas. The law. (It is clear to me that there's a God. Justice comes from Him. But it's no...

While the literature already includes a large number of party typologies, they are increasingly incapable of capturing the great diversity of party types that have emerged worldwide in recent decades, largely because most typologies were based upon West European parties as they existed in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Some new party types have been advanced, but in an ad ...

Benguigui used the term “middle class” in a way that suggested it exerted signifi-cant social agency in contemporary Tonga (1989). My review of his analysis con-cludes that there is no coherent, durable middle class in Tonga capable of theeffective class action he claimed for it. Instead, the social struggles of recentdecades, typically led by members of commoner educated elites...

We examine the effect of the number of candidates and the impact of ideology on the efficiency of the electoral process. We show that the tendency to focus on policies that provide particularistic benefits increases with the number of candidates to the expense of policies that benefit the population at large. Thus, the efficiency of policies provided in an electoral equilibrium worsens when the...