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Better or Different? How Political Ideology Shapes Preferences for Differentiation in the Social Hierarchy

As consumers’ political opinions become more divided and more central to their identities, it is important to understand how political ideology shapes consumers’ attempts to differentiate from others

Blue and Red Voices: Effects of Political Ideology on Consumers’ Complaining and Disputing Behavior

Political ideology plays a pivotal role in shaping individuals’ attitudes, opinions, and behaviors. However, apart from a handful of studies, little is known about how consumers’ political ideology ... political ideology (the 2012 US presidential election results) to demonstrate that conservative consumers are not only less likely than liberal consumers to report complaints but also less likely to dispute

Social, technical-economic, environmental and political assessment for the evaluation of transport modes for petroleum products

, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development. In general, only aspects related to investment, construction, equipment acquisition and ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013

Social, technical-economic, environmental and political assessment for the evaluation of transport modes for petroleum products

petroleum derived products, in a Case Study. The method deals with technical, economic, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013

Borderless Commons Under Attack? Reconciling Recent Supreme Court Decisions with Watershed scale Management

Water managers have long called for management at watershed scales, instead of using hydrologically arbitrary boundaries like political borders. Considerable effort has been made in recent years to ... , Transaction Costs and Environmental Policy: An Assessment Framework and Literature Review, 4 INT’L REV. OF ENVTL. AND RESOURCE ECON., 261-354 (2010); K. Krutilla, & A. Alexeev, The Political Transaction Costs

Machine Talk: How Verbal Embodiment in Conversational AI Shapes Consumer–Brand Relationships

This research shows that AI-based conversational interfaces can have a profound impact on consumer–brand relationships. We develop a conceptual model of verbal embodiment in technology-mediated communication that integrates three key properties of human-to-human dialogue—(1) turn-taking (i.e., alternating contributions by the two parties), (2) turn initiation (i.e., the act of...

Understanding and Improving Consumer Reactions to Service Bots

automation, such that increased political attention toward technological unemployment is strongly needed. Limitations and Constraints on Generalizability Managerial practice and consumer behaviors

Theory and Practice of Inclusive Education in Hungary

Before changing the political regime, Hungary was almost exclusively affected by the Soviet and Eastern- European communist countries whose impact was profound on Hungarian education system as well ... country was the changing of the regime in 1989 when the impact of the Soviet policy including the philosophy of education came to an end. “ The new constitution paid tribute to the memory of the Revolution

I Really Know You: How Influencers Can Increase Audience Engagement by Referencing Their Close Social Ties

. Consequently, authenticity has received attention from several disciplines including tourism, political science, strategy, leadership, and business (Avolio and Gardner 2005; Kernis and Goldman 2006; Wood et al

Does Cash Really Mean Trash? An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Retailer Price Promotions on Household Food Waste

Retailer price promotions, and in particular multi-unit deals such as the ubiquitous “buy one, get one,” are often criticized as a cause of food waste, presumably because they lure households into buying more than they can realistically consume. In this research, the authors combine field data and experiments to provide the first systematic test of this claim. The field data...

Salmon Hatcheries as fish Factories: Forgetting the Lessons of Leopold

quite predictable under Public Choice political theory. According to this theory, well-organized interest groups with both short term economic agendas and economies that are linked to commercial and ... noting only that the flows “caused a political backlash and attempts to eliminate the entire program.”45 However, at least in the Columbia Basin, the ESA has not produced substantially increased flows, and

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the

Cultural Rights v. Species Protection: A case study of pacific leatherback sea turtles

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the rights of fishing these turtles beyond their territories is ... right, all “peoples” freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.81 The ICJ has also recognized the customary nature of the right to self

Limits and Perspectives for the Promotion of the Inclusive Culture and Paradigm within School Context: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings from Greece and Hungary

and promotes an epistemological and social-political-cultural shift on philosophy and scopes of educational policy, on content and directions of curriculum, on teaching methodology, on teachers ... for factors such as the following (Farrell, 2011; Florian & McLaughlin, 2008; Goodley, 2007; Kourkoutas, 2010) : A dominant intervention philosophy drawn on the bio-medical epistemological paradigm

Preparing for Secondary Inclusion: What Educators Can Learn from Parents of Students with Disabilities

sometimes subtle and sometimes dramatic changes related to the concerns of parents, advocacy groups, and political currents. One consistent shift in the most recent reauthorizations of IDEA is the ... that’s not where they need to be. These statements reflect the practical impact of the discrepancies in expectation on the experiences of students and teachers. Gaps in expectations and philosophy among

Consumer and Object Experience in the Internet of Things: An Assemblage Theory Approach

assemblage theory, a comprehensive socio-material theory of social complexity from the speculative realism school of philosophy (DeLanda 2002, 2006, 2011, 2016; Deleuze and Guattari 1987; Harman 2008) that ... “something more” that emerges from interaction. The problem, however, is that what is “something more” is also largely ineffable. In philosophy, descriptions of the essence of experience have taken the form of

Paths to Respectability: Consumption and Stigma Management in the Contemporary Black Middle Class

measured by a host of economic, political, social, and attitudinal indicators. It is not a social problem unique to the United States, though it is a long-standing one. Despite moments of dramatic progress ... is maintained by the rapid emergence of new forms of racialized disadvantage to replace older forms that wither or suffer political defeat. In the pages that follow I explore people’s efforts to resist

Out of "Dark Backrooms and Sheds

casting a political vote, potentially advancing their self-efficacy. The framework, furthermore, encourages people to begin to reposition themselves and to adjust their beliefs towards a more positive ... disabled for recognition can be fragmented. Within the philosophy of inclusion, however, there is a wider definition of need with greater numbers involved. With this increased critical mass, there is likely