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The Concept of De-assimilation: The Example of Jews in Poland

“dezasymilacja” (Kijek 2017, 237) . The term “dysymilacja” was once used to describe the phenomenon studied in the present paper: In one inconsequential sentence, Marcin Mateńko wrote that the political changes ... political atmosphere was against religion, and the leaders of TSKŻ were Communists who had been fighting Judaism before the war. They also forbade the teaching of Hebrew, since for them it represented a

Bucking the Trend: South African Jewry and Their Turn Toward Religion

. This tendency is most pronounced among people born in the 1960s and 1970s. A similar trend characterizes South African non-Jews. We argue that coming of age in a period of profound political and social ... explained by both local political and economic developments, as well as the particular character and history of the South African Jewish community. This case study focuses on South Africa to highlight how

Political tolerance in Brazil

Understanding political tolerance as one of the dimensions of a democratic political culture, the article uses a set of unpublished data produced by the Latin American Public Project to exploratively

Electoral disputes and political representation in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo

Janeiro: IBGE, 2015. LAAKSO, M.; TAAGEPERA, R. “Effective number of parties: a measure with application to West Europe”. Comparative Political Studies, vol. 12, p. 3-27, Apr. 1979. LAMOUNIER, B. “A ... , vol. 7, nº 1, p. 25-48, 1973. _______. A democracia interrompida. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. FGV, 2001. TAAGEPERA, R. “Inequality, concentration, imbalance”. Political Methodology, p. 275-291, 1979. Apêndice

Ideology, political sophistication and vote in Brazil

vemos a relação entre ideologia e voto. Referências bibliográficas ALDRICH, J.; MCkELVEY, R. “A method of scaling with applications to the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections”. The American Political ... University Press, 2008. BRADY, H. “The perils of survey research: inter-personally incomparable responses”. Political Methodology, vol. 11, nº 3-4, p. 269-291, 1985. CAMPBELL, A., et al. The American voter

Ideology, political sophistication and vote in Brazil

vemos a relação entre ideologia e voto. Referências bibliográficas ALDRICH, J.; MCkELVEY, R. “A method of scaling with applications to the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections”. The American Political ... University Press, 2008. BRADY, H. “The perils of survey research: inter-personally incomparable responses”. Political Methodology, vol. 11, nº 3-4, p. 269-291, 1985. CAMPBELL, A., et al. The American voter

The Concept of Freedom in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought

Arendt argues that the concept of freedom has been misunderstood and distorted by many philosophers until the time of her writing. By examining the history of freedom in political theory Arendt ... beyond classical definitions of freedom in terms of negative and positive freedom in political theory. This paper is chiefly and simply concerned with examining how Arendt formulates the notion of freedom

Tongue Ties or Fragments Transformed: Making Sense of Similarities and Differences between the Five Largest English-Speaking Jewish Communities

Social and Political Philosophy 21 ( 1 ): 1 - 21 . https://doi. org/10.1080/13698230. 2017 . 1398443 . Bankier-Karp , Adina L. 2022 . Catalysts of connectedness: A case for greater complexity in religious ...  al. (2007 ) maintain that “faith is an antidote to fear” (p. 126), the South African community’s comparably high level of religiosity being attributed to the country’s political and economic

Effects of ideologically biased journalistic treatment in cognitive processing of political information. An experimental approach

Recognizing the conditions of polarization of the current media market, salient features of the cognitive processing of textual political information of conjunctural importance (real press news from ... that show a selective logic of self-referential and defensive consumption. Key words: political information; media selectivity; political ideology; consumption; Argentina Resumo Reconhecendo as

The Relationship Between Antisemitic Attitudes and Conspiracy Beliefs: A Cross-Sectional Study of UK-Resident Adults

Introduction Conspiracy theories have been defined as “attempts to explain the ultimate causes of significant social and political events and circumstances with claims of secret plots by two or more powerful ... of antisemitism in the population) but on “complex analysis of relations between psychological, political, demographic (or other) variables” (Winiewski and Bilewicz 2013, p. 97) . In keeping with the

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-speaking Jewish communities, however, a larger share of religious switchers in South Africa are moving toward, rather than away from, stricter forms of religion. Beider and Fachler argue that political ... . Avishai maintains that multiple approaches—including political activism to personal interactions with religious leaders and community members as well as the creation of spaces for their everyday lives

Teoria Crítica e democracia deliberativa: diálogos instáveis

: Deliberative Democracy; Democratic Theory; Critical Theory; Frankfurt School; Political Philosophy. ... of power in deliberative democracy". Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 18, nº 1, p. 64-100, 2010.         [ Links ] MEDEARIS, J. "Social movements and deliberative democratic theory". British

The news coverage of the 2017 general strikes: protest paradigm or political slant

The protest paradigm is a concept widely used in the international literature in studies on the mass media’s unfavorable treatment of political and social protests. There are three explanations for ...  ] Gamson , W. A. ; Wolfsfeld , G. “ Movements and media as interacting systems” . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , vol. 528 , p. 114 - 125 , 1993 . [ Links ] Gitlin

Civil society, political parties and interrelationships: a comparative study between Porto Alegre and Montevideo

Decentralization from Montevideo, having as the analytical centre the role played by the party-political systems in the two countries. In this sense, the investigation intends to offer some elements which help to ... functioning of new Participative Institutions? In the analysis we aimed to break up the normative dichotomy which separates the civil society from the political one present in most of the academic works about

Civil society, political parties and interrelationships: a comparative study between Porto Alegre and Montevideo

Decentralization from Montevideo, having as the analytical centre the role played by the party-political systems in the two countries. In this sense, the investigation intends to offer some elements which help to ... functioning of new Participative Institutions? In the analysis we aimed to break up the normative dichotomy which separates the civil society from the political one present in most of the academic works about

Civil society, political parties and interrelationships: a comparative study between Porto Alegre and Montevideo

role played by the party-political systems in the two countries. In this sense, the investigation intends to offer some elements which help to answer the following question: to what extent the ... functioning of new Participative Institutions? In the analysis we aimed to break up the normative dichotomy which separates the civil society from the political one present in most of the academic works about

Associativism and repertoires of political-institutional action

Bolstered by studies in political sociology and dialoguing with theories on associativism and its relation to democracy, the present work aims at testing the efforts for the typification of the

Cascading corruption news: explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil’s political scandals

-mail: <>. Abstract Through a content analysis of 8,800 news items and six months of front pages of three Brazilian newspapers, all dealing with corruption and political transgression, the ... the reins of the Presidency. Why was news on the corruption of these political actors so underexposed in the mainstream Brazilian media, and how could the media fail to hold the politicians coming

Cascading corruption news: explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil’s political scandals

Through a content analysis of 8,800 news items and six months of front pages of three Brazilian newspapers, all dealing with corruption and political transgression, the present article documents the ... the reins of the Presidency. Why was news on the corruption of these political actors so underexposed in the mainstream Brazilian media, and how could the media fail to hold the politicians coming

Cascading corruption news: explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil’s political scandals

-mail: <>. Abstract Through a content analysis of 8,800 news items and six months of front pages of three Brazilian newspapers, all dealing with corruption and political transgression, the ... the reins of the Presidency. Why was news on the corruption of these political actors so underexposed in the mainstream Brazilian media, and how could the media fail to hold the politicians coming