Political Activism and Market Power
In: Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-60
In: Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-60
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In: Journal of democracy, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 141-155
ISSN: 1045-5736
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 336-339
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In: Social science quarterly, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 557-562
ISSN: 0038-4941
A positive r between intellectual ability & leftist ideology has been empricially documented. S. M. Lipset has argued that activism itself is positively related to intelligence. To test this, a sample of student pol'al activists at the U of Minnesota was compared with the general student pop there. The 39 campus pol'al groups were classified into 4 broad ideological categories--Right, Right Center, Left Center, & Left. Data on 84 F & 156 M pol'al student activists are used. 9 measures of intellectual ability in the R's were also utilized. It is found that the activists, taken together or separately by sex on each of the various ability & achievement tests, are more capable than a large majority of either beginning freshmen or all U students. Overall, the data offer moderate support for Lipset's argument, but further res with samples of activists from other types of U's, particularly highly selective public & private Sch's where activism has been relatively more extensive, is needed. In addition, there is a definite need for res with samples of adult activists so that the conclusion reached here may be tested to see if it may be extended beyond student activists to include pol'al activists in general. 1 Table. M. Maxfield.
This article examines protest, petitioning, lawsuits, open letters, blogging, and other forms of activism by Chinese veterans. Moving beyond images of heroic soldiers in the official media, and the near absence of reporting on veterans' problems, we draw mainly on blog posts and military websites where veterans share their experiences of post-army life. We find that, overall, veterans have had difficulty adjusting to the economic, social, cultural, and political changes of the reform era, with many of them finding themselves left behind as other groups have leapt ahead. Veterans complain about poverty, unresolved medical problems, and lack of respect for their contributions to the nation. Not a few have experienced terrible indignities at the hands of security officials and a leadership that is bent on preventing any interest group formation that might ameliorate veterans' problems.
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In: Journal of Inter-American studies and world affairs, Band 13, S. 78-88
ISSN: 0022-1937
In: What is Radical Politics Today?, S. 77-84
In: Righting Feminism, S. 17-38
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 39
In: International political science review: IPSR = Revue internationale de science politique : RISP, Band 30, Heft 5, S. 501-517
ISSN: 0192-5121
In: HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2014-1053
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In: French politics, society and culture
France, Social Capital and Political Activism deals with the theme of political participation in France, focusing on conventional and unconventional forms of political activism over the last three decades. The French model of political activism supports the interpretation that countries do not necessarily need to focus on the development of social capital (that is the involvement in groups and associations as the basis for political engagement) to increase people's political involvement and consequently the quality of their participatory democracies. The French style of action has become a source of inspiration for other countries trying to increase political involvement, but lacking the attendant levels of social capital.
In: Modern China, Band 41, Heft 3 (May 2015)
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In: Hatzisavvidou , S 2015 , ' Disturbing Binaries in Political Thought : Silence as Political Activism ' , Social Movement Studies , vol. 14 , no. 5 , pp. 509-522 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2015.1043989
'Keeping silent' can be a meaningful political event, a form of political activism that generates new political subjectivities and alters existing realities by reconfiguring power relations. To flesh out this argument, this paper attends to a particular silent protest and affirms it as a tactic employed by an emergent political collectivity to make itself perceptible, declare an injustice and challenge institutional power. As such, the silent event under scrutiny does not merely invite a turning of our attention to a practice that breaks the association of the political subject with the speaking subject; it also invites a reconsideration of what we are accustomed to accept as political activism. 'Keeping silent' is a critical practice, indeed, because it manifests an alternative possibility of being and acting; in so doing, it disrupts established patterns of thought and practice, and more specifically the rigid distinction between speech and silence.
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