A Comparative Theory of Federalism: India

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 1593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunita Parikh ◽  
Barry R. Weingast
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Theory

Schopenhauer and Christianity

2020 ◽  
pp. 400-424
Author(s):  
Gerard Mannion
Keyword(s):  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Comparative Theory

This chapter explores Schopenhauer’s complex relationship with Christianity and Christian thought. It charts the development of his relationship with religion to the point where he shapes a critically interpretive and frequently comparative theory of religions in general and his lifelong studies of Christianity in particular. Schopenhauer’s writings about Christianity are numerous and varied in character and tone for in numerous ways he was both a critic and defender of religion—especially Christianity. The chapter outlines Schopenhauer’s interactions with and interpretations of major Christian doctrines and thinkers and also discusses those aspects of Christian thought that most significantly influenced his own writings, especially in terms of metaphysics, ethics, and soteriology. It concludes with some reflections on just how dependent his philosophical system was on Christianity and religion in general for his most significant ideas. Overall it seeks to demonstrate that an engagement with Schopenhauer’s relationship with Christianity and Christian thought can prove illuminating for understanding multiple aspects of his philosophy in general.

scholarly journals Vulnerable Narcissism in Social Networking Sites: The Role of Upward and Downward Social Comparisons

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanchang Kong ◽  
Meiru Wang ◽  
Xingjie Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyao Li ◽  
Xiaojun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Vulnerable Narcissism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Comparative Theory

Social networking sites (SNSs) have provided a new platform for people to present their narcissism. The objective of the current study was to investigate the underlying mechanisms between active and passive SNS use and vulnerable narcissism among college students. In achieving this, the study based its method on the media effect and social comparative theory and recruited 529 participants to complete the Surveillance Use Scale, Iowa–Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure, and Hypersensitivity Narcissistic Scale. The results showed that active and passive SNS use were positively related to upward and downward social comparisons. Active and passive SNS use also indirectly predicted vulnerable narcissism through the parallel mediation of upward and downward social comparisons. This study also revealed the vital role of social comparison in the association between SNS use and vulnerable narcissism.

Bringing in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily L. Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Comparative Theory

What do comparativists have to gain by reading recent work on China? In this article, I focus specifically on the ways in which scholarship on China can contribute to the task of theory building in comparative politics. I identify two areas that could reap particularly high benefits from considering scholarship on China—comparative political development and the political behavior of development—and I discuss some of the specific contributions that China scholarship can make to building comparative theory in these areas.

A Brief Methodology for Researching and Evaluating Serious Games and Game-Based Learning

2013 ◽  
pp. 357-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Mayer ◽  
Geertje Bekebrede ◽  
Harald Warmelink ◽  
Qiqi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Comparative Theory ◽  
Conceptual Research ◽  
Digital Or

In this chapter, the authors present a methodology for researching and evaluating Serious Games (SG) and digital (or other forms of) Game-Based Learning (GBL). The methodology consists of the following elements: 1) frame-reflective analysis; 2) a methodology explicating the rationale behind a conceptual-research model; 3) research designs and data-gathering procedures; 4) validated research instruments and tools; 5) a body of knowledge that provides operationalised models and hypotheses; and 6) professional ethics. The methodology is intended to resolve the dilemma between the “generality” and “standardisation” required for comparative, theory-based research and the “specificity” and “flexibility” needed for evaluating specific cases.

Anthropology of Law: A Comparative Theory.

Social Forces ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Pipkin ◽  
Leopold Pospisil
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Theory

Measuring Democracy

2014 ◽  
pp. 426-452
Author(s):  
Célestin Monga
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press ◽  
Comparative Theory

Despite increased academic and media interest in the continent and the intensity of the sociopolitical and administrative changes that have occurred in the past twenty-five years, analyses published in the press and by scholars are generally incomplete. Beyond the traditional dispute between “universalists” (theorists of a general model of liberal democracy to which all countries are expected to conform) and “relativists” (advocates of the sovereignty of individual cultural identities), the real problem lies in the inability of social scientists to develop a comparative method that is at once valid and acceptable to all. Rejecting the purely normative approach to political ethics that dominates the debate on democracy, this chapter uses an economic approach to advance a comparative theory of the notion of political well-being. It proposes a measurement index whose different components take into account both the viewpoint of universalists on human rights and the perspective of relativists on political utility.

The Judicialization of Politics Disentangled

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hamlin ◽  
Gemma Sala
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Politics ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Judicialization Of Politics ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Research ◽  
Comparative Theory ◽  
The Cost

The judicialization of politics is an expression that has been widely used in the fields of comparative law and judicial politics alike since it first emerged in the 1980s. Yet, despite its ubiquity, it is difficult to ascertain its specific meaning because it is used to refer to such a wide range of court-related phenomena and processes. Despite its varying usages and meanings, there has been a puzzling lack of scholarly discussion over the scope of the term, and very little critical analysis of its use. This silence has impeded the project of comparative constitutional law. So it is necessary to disentangle and compare the many faces of judicialization that are used in various political science literatures. There are as many as nine distinct forms of the term that are regularly used; yet the various empirical strategies for measuring, defining, and documenting this phenomenon are often incommensurable, and further, the causes of judicialization frequently overlap and occasionally contradict one another. The popularity of this term has come at the cost of conceptual clarity, and this confusion has impeded both the project of building a comparative theory of judicialization, and efforts to have a coherent normative debate about its consequences. With the goal of theory building in mind, a systematic study of judicialization and its multiple usages can be a useful way to illuminate key questions for a new research agenda geared toward a deeper and more nuanced understanding of this term.

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