The Personality Origins of Positive and Negative Partisanship

Negative partisanship describes the intense disdain for a rival political party. A growing number of political scientists in the US and beyond examine the impact of negative partisanship on citizens' political behavior, asserting the notion that negative partisanship exerts a strong influence, either on its own or in combination with positive partisanship. Yet we know little about the psychological origins of negative and positive partisanship: Which personality traits are associated with high levels of negative partisanship, and do they differ from the ones that have been linked to positive partisanship? In this article, I address these questions. Utilizing a sample of US adults and a sample of Swedish adults, I examine the influence of prominent personality traits - including Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, the Need for Closure, and the Big Five - on strong negative and positive partisanship. I demonstrate that the personality origins of positive and negative partisanship differ not just across the two samples but also across partisans on the left and on the right. I conclude the article with implications for research on polarization and a plea for more comparative work on (positive and negative) partisanship

The Association of Relief Status of the Farm Operators in South Dakota with the Size of Farms Operated and with Various Personal Characteristics of the Farm Operators

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the extent the relief status of the farm operator in South Dakota may be associated with various sizes of farms maintained. The author offers this particular study as one that has a decided bearing upon the relief situation in South Dakota 1934 to 1936 as that problem was decreased or augmented by the size of farm. The problem of relief, in the past discussed as poverty and pauperism, has been considered essentially a social problem. Poverty has been thought and written of as a pathological social condition, although few sociological students have considered the problem entirely apart from the economic field. Social and economic students of today are discussing the problem as a joint responsibility. This thesis shows the relationship of the sociological factor, poverty, as determined by the relief status of the South Dakota farmer, and the economic factor, size of farm operated

Advanced Conducting Project

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Evolution of Binary Systems Embedded in Circumbinary Accretion Disks

In this work, I combine two studies on circumbinary accretion disks. The first study focuses on the interactions between a central equal mass binary and a surrounding retrograde circumbinary accretion disk. The second study examines the evolution of the orbital parameters (semi-major axis a and eccentricity e) of a binary on an eccentric orbit embedded in a prograde circumbinary accretion disk. In both studies, we utilize three-dimentional MHD simulations. In the first study, we find that the binary-on-disk torque is much smaller for a retrograde circumbinary disk than for a disk orbiting in the prograde direction. Thus, fluid in a retrograde circumbinary disk can accrete directly from the disk to the binary's domain. There is no "gap" carved out of the retrograde disk. Also, retrograde disks do not develop the large-amplitude lumps generically seen near the inner edges of prograde disks. Because the disks angular momentum is directed oppositely to that of the binary, accretion onto the binary causes a rapid increase in eccentricity. Lastly we discuss the comparative rates of orbital evolution associated with accretion in prograde and retrograde circumbinary disks, finding that the principal contrast is that e-dot should be rather greater in the retrograde case. In the second study, we find that for prograde circumbinary accretion disks around binaries on eccentric orbits, as was found for the case of circular binaries, accretion occurs through transient accretion streams, which traverse the gap region between the binary and the bulk disk. However, the m = 1 "lump" feature found in the circular case did not develop in any of the eccentric binary cases. Instead, we found prominent m = 2 spiral density waves in the bulk disk. We observed a monotonic increase in the time averaged mass accretion rate with increasing binary orbital eccentricity. The rate of mass accretion peaks during the binary descent phase, although this trend is weaker for larger eccentricities. Even so, accretion into the binary region occurs primarily near apoapsis for all binary eccentricities. As the binary nears apoapsis, negative binary-on-disk torques extract angular momentum from accretion streams allowing material to cross the gap and pass into the binary region. Positive binary-on-disk torques propel accretion streams back into the gap region a short time (less than a binary orbit) later. This effect is more pronounced for small eccentricity binaries; smaller eccentricity binaries thus have larger populations of disk material with a high ratio of |vr/vphi|. We find that, on average, prograde circumbinary disks increase (or at least do not decrease) the net angular momentum of the central binary. Utilizing simple ballistic calculations, we find that the majority of material passing into the binary region does not impact a binary mini-disk within a binary obital time for e > 0.3. We conclude that future work must contain the binary region on the computational grid in order to accurately model the binary evolution

A Tale of Two Democrats: How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party

Authoritarianism has been predominantly used in American politics as a predictor of Republican identification and conservative policy preferences. We argue that this approach has neglected the role authoritarianism plays among Democrats and how it can operate within political parties regardless of their ideological orientation. Drawing from three distinct sets of data, we demonstrate the impact of authoritarianism in the 2016 Democratic Party’s primaries. Authoritarianism consistently predicts differences in primary voting among Democrats, particularly support for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. This effect is robust across various model specifications including controls for ideology, partisan strength, and other predispositions. These results highlight the potential of authoritarianism to shape leadership preferences within the Democratic Party. We advocate for a reconsideration of authoritarianism as a disposition with meaningful consequences for intraparty dynamics and conclude with practical implications regarding the future of the Democratic Party

Borderland Journeys: A Layered Autoethnography

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most importantly, the goal of this story-thesis is to illustrate how the process of story-making and -telling changes how we interpret our identities and our lifeworlds. I argue that the stories that we share change our identities, and I also argue that how we perceive our identity and the identities of others affects the stories that we share

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Trends Observed in Urinary Pathogens Obtained From New York State

International guidelines recommend using local susceptibility data to direct empiric therapy for acute uncomplicated cystitis. We evaluated outpatient urinary isolate susceptibility trends in New York State. Nitrofurantoin had the lowest resistance prevalence whereas trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and fluoroquinolones had higher prevalences. This study highlights the need for local outpatient antimicrobial stewardship programs

USA NRC/RSR Data Bank System and Reactor Safety Research Data Repository (RSRDR)

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), through its Division of Reactor Safety Research (RSR) of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, has established the NRC/RSR Data Bank Program to collect, process, and make available data from the many domestic and foreign water reactor safety research programs. An increasing number of requests for data and/or calculations generated by NRC Contractors led to the initiation of the program which allows timely and direct access to water reactor safety data in a manner most useful to the user. The program consists of three main elements: data sources, service organizations, and a data repository