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Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand

For reasons of both electoral competitiveness and democratic legitimacy, political parties in diverse democracies increasingly compete for the votes of immigrant and ethnic minority voters. A ... ethnic minority voters, with consequences for their political inclusion and representation. We examine how these questions have been answered in New Zealand, a country characterised by high rates of inward

Mathematical Modality: An Investigation in Higher-order Logic

An increasing amount of contemporary philosophy of mathematics posits, and theorizes in terms of special kinds of mathematical modality. The goal of this paper is to bring recent work on higher-order ... logic has played a large role in contemporary philosophy of mathematics. Many ideas about mathematical objects, especially sets, have been fruitfully studied using distinctive mathematical modalities

Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong ... contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio‑political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are

Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands

 Netherlands Fatih Goksu Arjen Leerkes Introduction A considerable academic literature in migration studies and political science seeks to identify the factors that determine whether persons with a migration ... levels, for example, are seen as evidence that ethnic minorities have acquired a considerable level of knowledge of, and access to, the domestic political system. Furthermore, the overrepresentation of

Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan

diverse socio-economic, socio-political and cultural contexts, histories of inward migration, as well as differently preferred destinations in the migration of refugees from Syria in the 2010s. The ... solidarity (Bracic, 2018; Pawlicka et al., 2019; Pedersen & Thomas, 2013; Verkuyten, 2004) , behavioural intentions (Badea et  al., 2017; Yitmen & Verkuyten, 2018) , political orientation and related

Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

international students and have experienced similar political trajectories during this period, they have pursued divergent education and immigration policies in regulating ISM. Driven by a mix of educational ... particular have contributed to its spectacular ascent. The first is educational expansion, which can be defined as a political strategy to increase tertiary enrollment across society. Historically, the need to

“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

Diasporas can create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in their homeland and in their hostland, engaging in both electoral and non-electoral politics ... . However, the individual processes of subjectivation and its relationship with arts as a form of political engagement have been under‑ explored especially in contexts of violence and insecurity. This

The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights

protecting in ways that it, first, neglects ongoing processes of integration and, second, disregards possibilities for social and political change and emancipation, particularly if triggered by immigrant ... rights. In political philosophy, questions of border control are, in principle, separated from questions of domestic justice (e.g., Fine & Ypi, 2016) . Moreover, it must be noted that within the ethics

Atypical citizenship regimes: comparing legal and political conceptualizations

on the content of individuals’ rights and their belonging and participation in social and political institutions, this essay shows that official membership categories that are labeled ‘citizenship’ by ... relevant terminological differentiation for political philosophy, but it seems less important from the perspective of legal state membership and its discursive conceptualizations. The disassociation between

Extended Simples, Unextended Complexes

Both extended simples and unextended complexes have been extensively discussed and widely used in metaphysics and philosophy of physics. However, the characterizations of such notions are not ... ; Mereological harmony 1 Introduction Extended simples have been thoroughly discussed in metaphysics1 and philosophy of physics.2 Recently, unextended complexes have been investigated as well.3 Despite the

Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol

This contribution investigates the intersection between macro-level political narratives on diversity and micro-level lived experience of social inclusion and everyday interaction. The case studies ... -state nationalist sentiment? What is the impact of diversity political discourse on young adult migrant arrivals in these settings? How are macro-narratives on diversity in these regions understood and

Mare nostrum: the political ethics of migration in the Mediterranean

In the political theory debate about open borders and the ethics of immigration control there has been little discussion of trade-offs and a lack of distinctions between admission claims. This paper ... University Press.Google Scholar Frazer, M. (2016). Utopophobia as a vocation: The professional ethics of ideal and nonideal political theory. Social Philosophy and Policy, 33, 175–192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

A Sound and Complete Tableaux Calculus for Reichenbach’s Quantum Mechanics Logic

Philosophy and Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Sevilla , Camilo José Cela St., Sevilla 41018 , Spain 1 Department of Philosophy and Anthropology, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela ... Quantum Mechanics. University of California Press. 20. Reichenbach, H. (1946). Reply to Ernest Nagel’s Criticism of My Views on Quantum Mechanics. The Journal of Philosophy, 43(9), 239–247. 21

A Step Towards Absolute Versions of Metamathematical Results

There is a well-known gap between metamathematical theorems and their philosophical interpretations. Take Tarski’s Theorem. According to its prevalent interpretation, the collection of all arithmetical truths is not arithmetically definable. However, the underlying metamathematical theorem merely establishes the arithmetical undefinability of a set of specific Gödel codes of...

Exploring the ideational explanation for pro-immigrant sentiment: evidence from a South Korean survey

attitudes. We selected two majors for each  field of study: History and Philosophy for humanities, and Political Science and Sociology for social science. The universities selected are Seoul National ... graduation. Field-based attitudinal differences are also observed in environmental and moral issues. Political science students are more supportive of state intervention in environmental issues than students

A Minimal Probability Space for Conditionals

the temperature was higher, this piece of metal would melt, and if we are discussing political fiction we can consider If Reagan worked for the KGB, I’ll never find out  ([ 18 ], 155) or the famous 1 ... University. 5. Egré , P. , & Rott , H. ( 2021 ). The Logic of Conditionals . In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 ed.). URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021

The Implicative Conditional

set of worlds where p is true. Reflexivity is required to ensure Modus Ponens for the logical implicative conditional which we define below. From the perspective of the philosophy of modality

Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany

International students are conceived as essential contributors to the development of their countries of origin after they finished their studies abroad. Political decision-makers of the countries of ... ) , political (Rother, 2017) , social (Krannich, 2017) or cultural processes (Zhou & Lee, 2015) in their home countries. Sometimes they might do that even more effectively than they would have stayed at

Bureaucratic configuration and discretion in asylum case processing: the case of the EUAA in Greece

how migration is managed. The motivation behind these ‘creative strategies’ differs from case to case. Some frontline staff may have a political agenda (Ioannidis et al., 2021) , try to resolve ... the top (ibid). Agency-oriented debates surrounding impartiality, subordination and political nonalignment are central to both historical and contemporary discussions on bureaucrats in many public

Neutral Free Logic: Motivation, Proof Theory and Models

Free logics are a family of first-order logics which came about as a result of examining the existence assumptions of classical logic (Hintikka The Journal of Philosophy, 56, 125–137 1959; Lambert ... Fakulta¨t f u¨r Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), Ludwig-Maximilians Universita¨t M u¨nchen, Geschwister Scholl Platz