UK Witches:Subversive Narratives and Radicalization

Tubadji, Annie

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“…The above results can be interpreted as a confirmation of the link between the feelings of relative deprivation and religiosity as traded‐off entities that determine life satisfaction. This is a triangulation and generalization of the Tubadji (2022) model of the “micro Game with God,” confirming that the need for religious belief is motivated by the need for “not walking alone” in relative deprivation competitions in the real world. Finally, exploring the social welfare benefit from the public provision of religious institutions shows that providing a secular solution to loneliness is more cost‐efficient than the clerical version of the Church service to society.…”

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“…In consequence, Tubadji (2022) redefined Pascal's Wager into a cooperative game where the perceived relative deprivation of the individual is the foundation of their choice over whether or not to continue believing in God and religion associated with the dominant creed—which is intimately related as a proto‐institution emcompassing the entire institutional context in which the individual is situated. Tubadji's (2022) model focuses on whether the deprivation caused by the institutional context is a source of agency evoking mental health pain. When that pain from deprivation becomes unsurmountable, the model shows that, by trading off with the religious social network benefits, the individual prefers to change their religious identity.…”

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“…In line with Tubadji (2022), this study models religion as a tool for alleviating mental pain for relative deprivation. Additionally, this article for the first time draws attention to the role of religious institutions on the aggregate level as providers of the feeling of “not walking alone,” which decreases the negative externalities from feeling alone in one's relative deprivation (such as loss of productivity, loss of cooperative redistribution, etc.)…”

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“…Using the results of this test, I further explore the question of how to monitor the evolution of this religious feeling from a peaceful and cooperative religious feeling to a conflictual and noncooperative one that can (and does) escalate to social protest. To do so, I extend the altruistic Vox Populi model suggested by Tubadji (2022) by relating it to Buchanan's theory of God (Buchanan, 1975, 2005), the Polanyian individual desire for protest (Polanyi, 1944), and the macro‐great‐transformation process expressed in winning protest voting and a full effective resetting of the system.…”

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“…Finally, a reverse engineering from the macro loss of efficiency of the religious institution over time is used to ascertain the average micro trade‐off between being religious and not being religious. This micro trade‐off, according to Tubadji (2022), can be compared to the critical threshold in the Game with God, which predicts the political radicalization of the voter.…”

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You'll never walk alone: Loneliness, religion, and politico‐economic transformation

Tubadji

2023

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The rise of subversive religious beliefs has been recently documented as related to the politico‐economic radicalization of places that feel left behind. When is the traditional local religious institution so socio‐economically inefficient in providing hope for “not walking alone” to become substituted by subversive religious beliefs on the market for hope? This article suggests a detailed methodology, linking micro and macro levels, that starts from the quantification of the individual gain from religion as a source for well‐being by providing the feeling of “not walking alone.” This micro gain is next used: (i) to evaluate a religious institution in terms of the social welfare that it generates, and (ii) to monitor this religious institution for losing its market to subversive religious beliefs, related to radical politico‐economic transformations. To illustrate this methodology, I analyze the socio‐economic efficiency of the Church of England as a predictive tool for the Brexit vote.Related ArticlesGainous, Jason, and Bill Radunovich. 2008. “Religion and Core Values: A Reformulation of the Funnel of Causality.” Politics & Policy 33(1): 154–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2005.tb00213.x.Giugni, Marco, and Maria T. Grasso. 2016. “How Civil Society Actors Responded to the Economic Crisis: The Interaction of Material Deprivation and Perceptions of Political Opportunity Structures.” Politics & Policy 44(3): 447–72. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12157/abstract.Temple, Luke, Maria T. Grasso, Barbara Buraczynska, Sotirios Karampampas, and Patrick English. 2016. “Neoliberal Narrative in Times of Economic Crisis: A Political Claims Analysis of the U.K. Press, 2007–14.” Politics & Policy 44(3): 553–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12161.

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Economic Crises, Subjective Well-Being, and Vote Switching: The Case of Brazil’s 2018 Presidential Election

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Hendriks,

Ianchovichina

2023

J Happiness Stud

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This paper examines the influence of the 2015 economic crisis on subjective well-being (SWB) and the withdrawal of support for the incumbent party during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. Using Gallup World Poll data and a post-election national survey conducted by the Center for Studies on Public Opinion, we find that the economic crisis influenced through different channels both SWB and vote switching. Worsening personal economic circumstances explain the decline in SWB in the aftermath of the crisis, while deteriorating perceptions about the economy explain the vote switching during the presidential election in 2018. Leadership disapproval played a role in both, but to different degrees. One possible explanation for the limited effect of personal economic circumstances on voting behavior in Brazil is that those who were most severely affected by the economic downturn, specifically the poorest individuals in the country, did not see voting for Bolsonaro as a feasible or desirable choice.

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Beyond Religion

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Kuzenbayev

2023

World Affairs

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By equating the traditional mindset with traditional beliefs (in magic, ritual, superstitions, etc.), several studies have consistently shown that such beliefs significantly influence people's political behavior and preferences. While these studies have highlighted the political consequences of a traditional mindset in several countries from the Global South, they nevertheless have little to say as to whether holding superstitious beliefs (e.g., believing in fortune tellers, horoscopes, or lucky charms) has certain political implications for countries in the Global North. In this article, we explore whether the traditional mindset has political consequences even in an industrially advanced Germany. We present an analysis of data from the German General Social Survey (GESIS 2019) showing that superstitious voters have less trust in the political system, are more inclined to think that Hitler would be remembered as a good stateman if he had not perpetrated the Holocaust, that the Nazi regime also had a good side, and that the Jews are different and, in any case, have too much influence. Hence, dissemination of superstitious beliefs could make right-wing populists more electorally appealing and successful than they once were. We believe our findings to be of some importance as they show that if the proliferation of superstitious beliefs continues unchecked, they may transform our political systems in ways that policy makers and democratic forces should strive to avoid.

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UK Witches:Subversive Narratives and Radicalization

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You'll never walk alone: Loneliness, religion, and politico‐economic transformation

You'll never walk alone: Loneliness, religion, and politico‐economic transformation

Economic Crises, Subjective Well-Being, and Vote Switching: The Case of Brazil’s 2018 Presidential Election

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