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The central ingredient in the process, widely studied, of Americanization may well be the power of American mass culture to turn everything into spectacle and entertainment. If well over a hundred years ago the appeal of William Cody/Buffalo Bill lay in his power to turn recent real-life events on America’s frontier into the mass entertainment offered by his Wild West Show, today we witness the further...
Several studies have attempted to answer questions related to political popularity and loyalty. However, limited attention was given to examine the degree at which the use of social media drives presidential candidates’ capability to build quality political proposals, innovate, and lead people. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine the relationship between specific political capabilities...
The current crisis in South Korea-Japan relations partly originates from a South Korean state that is neither fully authoritarian nor liberal. In the past, right-wing, authoritarian regimes in Seoul fomented populist-nationalist contempt against Japan and North Korea, with biased and censored public discourse, but ignored public sentiments when negotiating with the target states. Since the democratic...
While the notion of bioethical expertise might raise a host of questions concerning moral authority it is nevertheless the case that bioethicists continue to advance well thought out, detailed and comprehensive arguments concerning the ethical implications of the biosciences and healthcare. Not to make use of such work or those who produce it when it comes to the work of government and the development...
We are in the midst in the United States, the world’s foremost capitalist country, of a surge of interest in Socialism. Many Americans contend, or at least have begun to imagine, that Socialism might remedy income inequality, limited or flawed health-care, poverty, hunger, and other ongoing social and economic problems. Yet few Americans know much about the history of Socialism, and about its major...
Although complaining is well-recognized by psychologists and economists, its political potential is still far from obvious. Dissatisfaction with social services, non-democratic relationships between authorities and citizens, and the ignoring of significant social identities are communicated in everyday conversations. Even when complaining is perceived as ‘grumbling’, the informal nature of the communicated...
When Hollywood and the press were advised not to offend Germany before Pearl Harbor, The Three Stooges and Captain America punched those recommendations in the nose. When Blacks and civil rights militants were not part of the official American mosaic in the 50’s, Hugh Hefner invited Nat King Cole and Lenny Bruce on the first episode of his Tv show Playboy’s Penthouse. « Popular culture » has often...
The usual criteria in the studies of work and leisure fail to define the remunerated regional and national (high-level) democratic politician. What does this worker, who in census terminology is “not elsewhere classified,” mean to the conscientious voter? High-level politicians are not amateurs, for they are paid enough to earn a substantial part, if not all, of a livelihood. Second, these politicians...
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