Large pre-registered study finds perceiving the world as threatening doesn't predict conservatism very well, but belief in hierarchy (e.g. thinking some people are better than others) and an intentional world with purpose were decent predictors threadreaderapp.com/thread/1565902…
Being assigned to a STEM education in high school (as opposed to humanities) makes boys a bit more right-wing. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1994897…
In particular, compared to STEM as reference, social studies and humanities make people more left-wing, and business majors make people more right-wing. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1918084…
Economic literacy in the US: an old, white, educated, Republican thing.
In fin de siècle France, there was a retreat to metaphysics by leftists in the face of the ruthless empiricism of Vacher de Lapouge threadreaderapp.com/thread/2004275…
In this survey, the countries with the most positive views about sources of wealth inequality were 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, and 🇦🇺 threadreaderapp.com/thread/1803120…
It's well-known that immigrants to the U.S. today tend to vote Democratic and hold more left-wing beliefs than natives.
Red state pension funds tend to vote with management if management is providing good returns (ie, doing their job); blue state pension funds tend to vote with management if the company does leftist things (ie, ESG, or not paying CEOs very much). threadreaderapp.com/thread/2061476…
Strong liberals are more than twice as likely as strong conservatives to agree that “it’s good to see very successful people fail occasionally” (44% vs. 20%)" threadreaderapp.com/thread/1542311…
Polls about white racial attitudes about race: most whites disagree with BLM don't believe all disparities are due to discrimination threadreaderapp.com/thread/1441567…
Thread with excerpts from Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" (1984), a book on the failure of US welfare and social policy 1950-1980 to achieve its goals threadreaderapp.com/thread/2027392…
"It should always be firmly remembered that all efforts aimed at uniting Russia and restoring the monarchy in it are detrimental to our interests. Conservative politics are not an export commodity."
Here I will collect some data on repression, the law and the general state policy of tsarist Russia and the Russian White Guard. The materials will be in Russian, use a translator.
I was wondering why Persian nationalists sympathize with the Iranian monarchy. I've been collecting data a bit, and here I'll post some links to the research. The reason is simple: the Iranian monarchs were Persian patriots.
A Comparative Study of the Status of National Identity and Ethnic Identity
in Two Discourses: Pahlavi and the Islamic Republic
Case Study: The Kurdish Ethnicity in Iran
.jcrir.ut.ac.ir/article_103307…