Article: Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana

Article: political socialization
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      202 words ......process by which people come to acquire political attitudes and values. Socialization in childhood...necessarily a reliable guide to voting, or political attitudes. Sex and ethnicity are genetically determined; political attitudes are not.

Article: Political attitudes of Canadian professors.
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......analyze the social determinants of political attitudes among Canadian university professors...rank-ordering of Canadian professors' political attitudes by field emerges. Academics in the...survey-based sociological analysis of their political attitudes. This imbalance is especially ...

Article: Abbas calls on Hamas to change political attitudes
Xinhua News Agency;  March 8, 2006 ;     304 words ...Abbas calls on Hamas to change political attitudes RAMALLAH, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian...called on Hamas to change its current political attitudes. "There has to be a change in Hamas...Hamas can't change its views and political attitudes immediately. "It should be gradual...

Article: Sakhela Buhlungu (ed) (2006): Trade Unions and Democracy: Cosatu workers' political attitudes in South Africa.(Book review)
Transformation;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Unions and Democracy: Cosatu workers' political attitudes in South Africa. Pretoria: HSRC...edited volume on Cosatu workers' political attitudes in South Africa has proved personally...of quantitative data on workers political attitudes. It travels through ten years of...

Article: Study: leanings to red or blue might be in our blood.(Front)
The Virginian Pilot;  September 19, 2008 ;     558 words ......a biological basis for people's political attitudes. They found to their surprise that...education, all of which can affect political attitudes. Kevin Smith, a professor of political...environmental factors determine political attitudes. Recent studies have found that...

Article: Public Opinion and Political Change in China
The China Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......University in 1999. To study people's political attitudes and behavior at different stages...impact of media control on people's political attitudes and political behavior. Surprisingly...impact media control has on people's political attitudes and behavior. It is one thing to...

Article: DOES MORAL REASONING REPRESENT SOCIOMORAL STRUCTURE OR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY? A FURTHER EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MORAL REASONING, POLITICAL ATTITUDES, CONSISTENCY OF MORAL THOUGHT, AND THE EVALUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DUTCH YOUNG ADULTS
Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......relations between moral reasoning and political attitudes were examined in a representative...latter study both moral reasoning and political attitudes were related to the evaluation of...Defining Issues Test (Rest. 1979a). Political attitudes were measured using 10 Likert-type...

Article: Research from University of Ulster in the area of educational psychology described.(Report)
Psychology & Psychiatry Journal;  June 13, 2009 ;     365 words ......and outside school on children's political attitudes. Sample. A cross-sectional design...and outside school and children's political attitudes. Intergroup contact within and outside...both associated with less extreme political attitudes. Friendship quality with cross group...

Article: Born to party New research suggests that our basic political attitudes - liberal, conservative, or otherwise - are with us at birth. What does this mean for our democracy?
The Boston Globe;  November 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......scientists are now discovering that our political attitudes have deep roots in our biology...biological makeup contributes to our political attitudes." The work of Smith and his colleagues...likely than fraternal twins to share political attitudes on busing, foreign aid, school prayer

Article: Measure for Measure: The Relationship Between Different Broadcast Types, Formats, Measures and Political Behaviors and Cognitions.(Statistical Data Included)
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......television use was positively related to political attitudes, cognitions, and behaviors. Several...between broadcast media use and political attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions depends...different broadcast measures on political attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions. This...

Article: Long before Columbus, West Africans traded with the Americas
New African;  October 1, 2004 ;     477 words ......pyramids built for West African kings at Kukia in pre-Islamic Ancient Ghana and their counterparts in Nubia, Egypt and Meso-America...far easier to build on a grander scale. When the region of Ancient Ghana and Mauritania was closely examined, evidence of large prehistoric...

Article: Exposure to national flag brings moderation of political attitudes
The Hindustan Times;  December 28, 2007 ;     374 words ......a subliminal image of the national flag moderates such political attitudes. The study, led by psychologist Ran Hassin at the Hebrew...subliminal presentation of a national symbol affects not only political attitudes, but also voting intentions and actual voting in general...

Article: In related news
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  October 30, 2004 ;     34 words ...On our Religion page this week, we'll tell how how Christians' beliefs influence political attitudes. Our Religion page is still on Saturday, but starting this weekend it is in the Weekend Family section. TODAY ON PAGE F7

Article: New physiology study findings have been published by scientists at University of Nebraska.
Biotech Week;  October 29, 2008 ;     271 words ......also Physiology). We present evidence that variations in political attitudes correlate with physiological traits. In a group of 46...Oxley and colleagues published their study in Science (Political attitudes vary with physiological traits. Science, 2008;321(5896...