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Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust
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In this article, the authors present an overview of the modern mixed regime with respect to the sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization, and the preference for judgement.Abstract:
Preface Introduction Part I. Overseeing Democracy: 1. Vigilance, denunciation, evaluation 2. The overseers 3. The thread of history 4. Legitimacy conflicts Part II. The Sovereignty of Prevention: 5. From the right of resistance to complex sovereignty 6. Self-critical democracies 7. Negative politics Part III. The People as Judge: 8. Historical references 9. Almost legislators 10. The preference for judgement Part IV. Unpolitical Democracy: 11. The sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization 12. The populist temptation 13. Lessons of unpolitical economy 14. Conclusion: the modern mixed regime.read more
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The image of trust: Readers' views on the trustworthiness of news photographs
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An Argument for Contrarian Thinking
TL;DR: Schudson as discussed by the authors has argued that misreading the past to criticize the present can lead to the pitfalls of unwarranted pessimism and giddy celebration, and urged us to bring historical rigor and clear-minded analysis to confront conventional wisdoms.
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Crisis and mutation in the institutions of representation in 'real-existing' democracies
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For the Time(d) Being: The Form Hate Takes in The Hate U Give
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Analysing the course of trust towards public and financial institutions via Hidden Markov Models
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TL;DR: A statistical method to analyse public trust which is considered as latent concept fluctuating over time using measured trust's levels from individual items of a long-term survey is proposed and a hidden Markov model is proposed to account for the repeated measures and for longitudinal sampling weights.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Exit, voice, and loyalty : responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states
TL;DR: Zimbardo et al. as discussed by the authors studied the effects of severity of initiation and high penalties for exiting from public goods (and evils) on consumer reactions to price rise and quality decline in the case of several connoisseur goods.
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The agenda-setting function of mass media
Maxwell McCombs,Donald L. Shaw +1 more
TL;DR: In choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff, and broadcasters play an important part in shaping political reality as mentioned in this paper, and readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news story and its position.
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Democracy in America
TL;DR: De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures as mentioned in this paper, and also predicts that slavery will bring about the'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women.