Like many other transitional democracies, South Africa has chosen to run its two national postapartheid elections by an independent electoral commission, not by the existing government. Although the results were widely ...

A standard epistemic view of political legitimacy (e.g. Plato’s or Rousseau’s) holds that political outcomes are legitimate if they are correct. There is a dispute between such views, however, about who can expertly produce ...

Amy Gutmann's Democratic Education might equally well be entitled Republican Education, for its central theme is how to produce true republican citizens-citizens who possess both the ability and the motivation to participate ...

Alexithymia is a problematic psychological characteristic that limits one’s ability to identify and describe internal emotional states. Heightened levels of alexithymia are ubiquitous among many mental and physical health ...

Calcium and phosphate are essential elements in many biological processes, such as basic cellular function and signaling, yet they also combined to make biological crystals, most notably hydroxyapatite found in bone. ...

People seriously misjudge accident risks because they routinely neglect relevant information about exposure. Such risk judgments affect both personal and public policy decisions, e.g., choice of a transport mode, but also ...