It just can't be true that people with more education would tend to align with the "conservative" Republican party. "However, in most national and regional studies on voting behavior... just such a relationship is typically observed..."
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2778029?sid=21105143536851&uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=4&uid=2&uid=3739848&uid=70
Really?? But we are taught to assume the opposite. After all "for every one percentage point increase in college graduates in a state, the percentage of Democratic identifiers increases by 0.75 percent":
http://www.progressivepolicy.org/blog/more-college-graduates-more-democratic-voters/
But wait... the research results are actually all over the board:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201305/intelligence-and-politics-have-complex-relationship
So, if you want to understand how human political activity, there is a lot to absorb. But if you want to find research that confirms what you want to be true, there is a lot to choose from.
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Friday, January 23, 2015Posted by Pintradex at 4:23 PM 0 comments
Labels: education, InClass Material, the Left, the Right
"RHETORIC" WITHOUT DIALECTIC
Thursday, January 22, 2015http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/Courses/TRIVIUM/ClassicalDialectic/index.htm
There's talk about Rhetoric, but you can't study Rhetoric without
learning Dialectic first. For proof of this we need look no
further than the first line of Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric.
He says explicitly that:
"Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic."
Posted by Pintradex at 7:35 PM 0 comments
Labels: My Curriculum, Political Philosophy
What wealth does to your soul
Saturday, January 10, 2015WHAT IS CLEAR about rich people and their money — and becoming ever clearer — is how it changes them. A body of quirky but persuasive research has sought to understand the effects of wealth and privilege on human behavior — and any future book about the nature of billionaires would do well to consult it.
"What wealth does to your soul"
Related Links:
the Psychology of Wealth
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21/
The 'Haves' show less empathy than 'Have-nots
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/#.VLGGpWevyYA
How Wealth Reduces Compassion
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.abstract
Study: The influence of social class on Empathy
http://www.cultureofempathy.com/References/Articles/RichPoor/index.htm
Prosocial Spending and Happiness
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45753
Prevalence and correlates of shoplifting in the United States
http://www.pubfacts.com/detail/18381900/Prevalence-and-correlates-of-shoplifting-in-the-United-States:-results-from-the-National-Epidemiolog
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Labels: morality, Public Ethics
Why political practitioners in Washington avoid the APSA
The Irrelevance of Modern Political Science
There were no political luminaries in attendance at the American Political Science Association’s convention last week, ... One of the conference’s highlights, according to its Web site, was a panel titled “Is Political Science Relevant?”
I have often taken a random article from the American Political Science Review, which resembles a mathematical journal on most of its pages, and asked students if they can envision this method providing the mathematical formula that will deliver peace in the Middle East. Even the dullest students usually grasp the point without difficulty.
Also see: Scholars on the Sidelines
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Labels: PoliSci: the Profession
The Eighth Defendant, Black Panther Party History
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Labels: InClass Material, the Left, Use for Class 2015
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Labels: My Curriculum, PoliSci: the Profession
eric voegelin & leo strauss
Friday, January 2, 2015http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/04/eric-voegelin-leo-strauss-and-american-conservatism.html
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Labels: necessary knowledge, neo cons, the Right, to sort