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    interrelated articles with each other, such as Tavits’s (2005) and Robert and Wibbels’s (1999) articles. Tavits (2005) examines the effect of some factors on electoral volatility, such as national economic performance, average age of parties, ideological polarization. One of my critiques for her argument is about average age of parties and its relationship with electoral volatility. She argued that if a party survives many elections and gather a serious support from…

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    Ferroelectricity Essay

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    caused by strain are not negligible. To maintain the required strain, it is suggested that the film size is doubled, temperature and polarization are maintained accordingly. In brief Ferroelectric materials: Principles • Ferroelectric materials usually have two stable polarization states that are switchable based on the applied electric field. The remnant polarization Pr coercive field strength Ec are the parameters that describe the functionality of a ferroelectric material and the hysteretic…

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    The Partisan Sort Summary

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    in and related to whichever political party is chosen. These concepts are known by many as “polarization” and “sorting.” Sorting may be the lesser known of the two as it is somewhat of an obscure topic and has been known to be confused with polarization. In his book Levendusky explains the two concepts and the factors which set them…

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    Political polarization has always been a deeply rooted reality of American politics but it traces further back than the United States itself. Darwin proposed that morality was an adaption which evolved by natural selection both at an individual level and a group level. Morality or a strong commitment to virtue helped group cohesion and lead tribes with more virtuous members to take over other tribes which did not. In his book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt argues that group selection shaped…

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    those factors often describe a group that is at its most vulnerable to groupthink. Not to be confused with each other, group polarization seems to be the more extreme, radical version of groupthink. The main idea of group polarization is that people will make more daring decisions when in a group, compared to if they were by themselves. In groups experiencing group polarization the people in the group usually have more similar views and actually discuss them in an open conversation, unlike…

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    over time. Political polarization refers to the difference in political attitude to ideological limits. Polarization can also refer to divergences in public suggestions and opinion within a certain group or division. All factors of politics require polarization in the democratic and political parties centered at directing the government. When polarization happens to befall a country, reasonable voices usually loose powers and…

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    Electoral Blind Spots

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    These blind spots enable parties to nominate candidates that are optimally extreme, pass legislation that is tailored to narrow interests, and create excessive party polarization (Bawn 578). Blind spots expand and contract due to numerous factors, namely an inattentive media, arcane congressional rules, and general voter apathy. These blind spots, no matter how small, help dissolve the notion of representative democracy…

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    Aggregate measures of polarization show lower trust in government from 1958 (the first year the trust question was included in the survey conducted by American National Election Study) to 2012 (the most recent survey). There is also a powerful relationship between polarization and economic inequality. Although inequality has a moderate impact by itself on political trust, its indirect link to the issue, through polarization, is much…

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    Polarization has been on the rise for years, and was finally resulting in conflicts that were not being mediated effectively by a center party. As a result of this high levels of political polarization we can see the beginnings of the breakdown of consensus among political elites and with is the democratic regime. This political polarization made it impossible for political parties, even those which contained actors who…

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    Piezoelectricity History

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    The other ten are non-polar that is to say polarization appears after applying a mechanical loading. There are various types of man-made ceramics with crystal structure as perovskite viz Barium titanate BaTiO3,Lead titanate PbTiO3,Lead Zirconium Titanate Pb (ZrxTi1-x)O3) PZT.Its chemical structure is…

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