The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States

This paper studies the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote share for the Republican Party using county-level data from 1990 to 2016. Our main contribution is to show that an increase in high-skilled immigrants decreases the share of Republican votes, while an inflow of low-skilled immigrants increases it. These effects are mainly due to the indirect impact on existing citizens’ votes, and this is independent of the origin country and race of immigrants. We find that the political effect of immigration is heterogeneous across counties and depends on their skill level, public spending, and noneconomic characteristics. (JEL D72, J15, J24, J61, R23)

Pyrrhonism and the Value of Law

The aim of this paper is to determine how a Pyrrhonian (as she/he is described by Sextus Empiricus) considers the Law and can respond to Aristocles’ objection that a Pyrrhonian is unable to obey laws. First (1), we analyze the function of the Law in the 10th Mode of Aenesidemus, in order to show laws as a dogmatic source of value. But (2) Sextus shows also that the Sceptic can live in a human society by following laws and customs, according to so-called ‘sceptical conformism’. In the light of Pyrrhonian Hypotyposes (Pyr.) 1.23–24 and Against the Mathematicians (Math.) 11.162–164, I discuss the validity of the label ‘conformism’ in order to understand the nature of the political effect of the suspension of judgement. (3) The real nature of the political position of Pyrrhonian Scepticism – that lack of commitment does not mean indifference to politics but rather a criticism of fanaticism and praise for political cautiousness – appears by comparison with the Scepticism of the New Academy.

Understanding the Social Studies Curricula in Turkey as a Political Text Within the Context of Citizenship Education: Views of Academics and Teachers

This study attempted to understand the curricula in conveying the state’s own understanding to individuals, according to the reconceptualization approach. As content, the social studies curricula (SSC), with the assumption that political influence would be seen most in these curricula, were examined. This study aims understanding the social studies curricula as a political text within the context of citizenship education in order to see how politics affect these curricula. To determine what political factors affected SSCs in which way, the opinions of academics and teachers were examined regarding curricula from 1998, 2005 and 2018, prepared during different government periods in Turkey. It was tried to determine how the changes in SSCs were defined in political/non-political dimensions, explanation and definition, the criticism, reasons and recommendation regarding these changes. This study was designed as a case study, one of the qualitative methods. Data analysis was done by content analysis method. It was determined that the changes in social studies curricula in 1998, 2005 and 2018 were affected by different political reasons and that there were some prominent ideological elements in all 3 curricula. As a result, it was determined that political effect on SSCs prepared in different government periods and can be seen radical changes were made in terms of curriculum structure and content from 1998 to 2005 and that the SSC of 2018 is similar to that of 2005 in terms of structure.

IoT Trends

The internet of things indicates a kind of system to interface anything with the internet dependent on stipulated conventions through data detecting hardware to direct data trade and correspondences so as to accomplish acknowledgments, situating, figuring out, checking, and organization. IoT empowers various advances about its engineering, qualities, and applications, but what are the future difficulties for IoT? IoT frameworks enable clients to accomplish further mechanization, investigation, and joining inside a framework. They improve the scope of these regions and their precision. IoT uses existing and developing innovation for detecting, systems administration, and apply autonomy. IoT abuses ongoing advances in programming, falling equipment costs, and current frames of mind towards innovation. Its new and propelled components acquire significant changes the conveyance of items, products, administrations, financial, and political effect of those changes.

"The second sex" of pain and laughter: Painful giggling transressions of gender divide

By the mid-20th century, Simone de Beauvoir has published an important and ground-breaking research into the facts, myths and living experience of "the second sex" (Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949). Drawing on contemporary theories based on phenomenology and existentialism, de Beauvoir argues that the "man" is a historical idea, and the woman as a "becoming". At the end of the 20th century pain studies have gained vast attention in political theory, especially in political effect theory and "new materialism". Numerous studies have neglected de Beauvoir's frequent arguments dealing with "women's pain" and women's agency in human mitsein, particularly regarding the woman's embeddedness in social myths that "feminise" the body of a woman, as a form of crisis and resistance to be subjected to species and reproduction. This paper deals with the crisis and critique of physiological, economic, psychological and social disposability of female bodies. In addition, this research re-questions the limits of physical, semiological, cultural and political dissemination of (female) laughter, seen through the lens of interruptions and destabilizations of the hegemonic gender discourse incarcerated within the gender divide. Consequently, we are to open up a space for interrogating the "irony of giggle" as a form of resistance to the contemporary body politics - as a non-place, devoid of any political agency.

Economic and Political Realities and Models of Territorial Structure Development in the South of the Far East

The economic and political processes taking place in the southern Far East have had a significant impact on the development of the territorial structure. Methodologically, a constructive and comprehensive geopolitical approach was used that allowed a structural evaluation of economic and political realities and their impact on the formation and development of the territorial structure, as well as its various orientations and typologies in the south of the country. Far East. In addition, its focused study allowed to evaluate the economic and political effect of the modernization scenario, to analyze the impact of external and internal economic, political and social realities with a focus on the restructuring and organization of the territorial structure, all of which allowed to identify the main problems of its destabilization and, at the same time, determine the prospects for further growth of the elements of the system to varying degrees, affecting the industrial, transportation, infrastructure and other spheres of the population's life. It is concluded that the dialectical interaction of a set of political and economic realities of transformations and modernizations, internal and external, have configured an arial-nodal / linear-nodal polycentric linear structure in the south of the Far East.

The political effect of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia: growing demand for conservative values

The coronavirus epidemic has become the most serious challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Like other landmark events, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a fundamental shift in the way people live and think. The author analyzes the socio-philosophical aspects of the transformation of the political system in a crisis. The article assesses the process of changing the system of political values of citizens through the prism of a socio-psychological reaction to the threat of the spread of coronavirus infection, examines the problems of institutionalizing the pandemic as a political tool.

Introduction

This introduction overviews the book’s argument about how early Americans discovered the political power of music. Music had always been ground of contestation for early Americans but following the ratification of the US Constitution conservative elites in particular looked to music to persuade Americans to rise above political and partisan conflict to instead create a more unified, ordered, and deferential society. This conservative tradition of eliciting political effect from music’s improving, elevating, and refining effects as opposed to its more radical, or disruptive, qualities was intended to unite a diverse population in support of its leaders. However, it also placed music at the center of fraught debates over the proper relationship between the American people and their leaders. Despite resistance from various groups, conservative ideals of musical power successfully shaped perceptions of its political use at least through to the end of the American Civil War.