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AbstractIn this article, we reflect on the pernicious nature of rhetoric aimed at soliciting Black community support for predatory urban development schemes. Highlighting recent examples of Urban One Casino + Resort's development campaign in Richmond, Virginia, and the messaging leveraged by political leaders on behalf of SoFi stadium and the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, we find that discursive moves made by public and private stakeholders reflect what we call the "predatory rhetorics of urban development." We argue that these rhetorics intend to enlist divested Black communities as supporters of development projects that concentrate wealth and power in the hands of economic and political elites. They do so by playing on Black desires for social and economic inclusion into American middle-class community life. Four common threads of predatory rhetoric appear across both contexts. They are 1) seizing the real needs and concerns of stigmatized places, 2) relying on representational politics to mitigate issues of trust, 3) the neoliberal framing of American internal colonization as a problem that requires extractive private development solutions and, finally, 4) dissimulating intra-community class interests to consolidate "Black needs." We reflect on the outcomes supported by these rhetorics across both development projects and raise several points of further consideration as we hope for more organized responses to such rhetorics in the future.

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Embeddedness theory and relational work theory propose that people in close social relations naturally have better information about partners, which helps safeguard and optimize their relationships. Yet, researchers have noted that despite access to better information, broken trust still occurs. Why? We identify two factors that systematically keep access to information from working as anticipated: detection errors, which prevent people from effectively accessing and processing information, and associational dilemmas, which hinder using the information to report and punish deception. We also consider how relational work can sustain or amplify these factors and foster relational matches that give the false impression of being based on shared meanings and understandings. For example, detection errors and associational dilemmas can place victims into illusory solidarity where, despite appearing close, they are stuck with opportunistic partners.

The vulnerability of the ill highlights the importance of trust in physician--patient relationships. Previous work in theological ethics on the fiduciary principle or the virtue of trust has not fully appreciated the effect on relations between physicians and patients of a professional and organizational frame of reference grounded in the image of the physician as keeper of knowledge and expertise. In recent years, these relationships have been characterized by an economy of domination in which the physician or patient secures his or her autonomy at the expense of the other; trust becomes a commodity bartered between self-interested parties. As a result, the profession's traditional declaration of a commitment to the patient's interests is becoming illusory. If God is envisioned as a presence enriched by relationship with humans, trust-as-faith or a commitment to trust in spite of our vulnerability becomes the basis for social relationships of mutual dependency and a model for the physician--patient relationship. The book will be of interest to moral philosophers, physicians, religious ethicists, and theologians. It is suitable for use as a textbook and as supplementary reading in graduate courses in philosophy of medicine, theological ethics, and medical ethics

"In the United States, the exercise of police authority--and the public's trust that police authority is used properly--is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seems to offer relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory"--Provided by publisher.

The journalistic coverage of Russiagate, between 2017 and March 2019, has been described as 'a catastrophic media failure'. Drawing on political and social psychology, this article seeks to enrich, and refresh, the familiar journalistic concepts of agendasetting, framing and priming by combining them under the heading of the 'news narrative'. Using this interdisciplinary approach to media effects theory, Russiagate is considered in terms of the Illusory Truth Effect and the Innuendo Effect. These effects hypothesise that the more audiences are exposed to information, the more likely they are to believe it – even when they are told that the information is unreliable. As a specific example, we focus on the stance taken by BBC News – which has an obligation to journalistic impartiality. We ask what implications arise from this analysis with regard to audience trust.

The journalistic coverage of Russiagate, between 2017 and March 2019, has been described as 'a catastrophic media failure'. Drawing on political and social psychology, this article seeks to enrich, and refresh, the familiar journalistic concepts of agenda-setting, framing and priming by combining them under the heading of the 'news narrative'. Using this interdisciplinary approach to media effects theory, Russiagate is considered in terms of the Illusory Truth Effect and the Innuendo Effect. These effects hypothesise that the more audiences are exposed to information, the more likely they are to believe it – even when they are told that the information is unreliable. As a specific example, we focus on the stance taken by BBC News – which has an obligation to journalistic impartiality. We ask what implications arise from this analysis with regard to audience trust.

This article examines how female graduate students in China would perceive their experiences as survivors of sexual harassment by their faculty supervisors. Based on our narrative interviews at Chinese universities, this study has shown that 1) sexual harassment is the supervisor's expression of gender-based power in Chinese academia; 2) instead of blatant coercion, harassers would use their power strategically to influence and manipulate the student's 'consent' – that is, to lead the victim into deceived or illusory perceptions in order to sexually harass her; 3) for those participants who refused or resisted in particular, their academic progress, careers, health, relationships, and trust to society were all negatively affected; 4) a major cause of sexual harassment in the university setting was that female scholars and students were always treated in a sexual role rather than an academic role; and 5) institutional sexual harassment policies that deploy moral norms as a tool of attributing responsibility and blame can be seen as maintaining the very sexual hierarchies in the university settings.

The 2010 Australian election returned the first "hung" House of Representatives since the Second World War. This paper tracks the political lessons of history to the only other time when a prime minister had to work in a hung parliament. Circumstances and political parties differ, but on closer examination some common themes emerge. The prime ministership is both a gift and a burden, where control is, for the most part illusory. R.G. Menzies lacked the personal qualities his parliamentary colleagues found in Arthur Fadden. In 1941 he lost the prime ministership because he lost the support of his party room. Just as she had defeated Kevin Rudd in 2010, Julia Gillard was eventually defeated in a caucus ballot in June 2013. However, at least initially, Gillard displayed personal traits which Rudd lacked and which enabled her to retain the trust of both the ALP caucus and key independent members. History contains some valid lessons which, given recent events, need restating: relationships in politics matter.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Amidst Values and Interests … Finding a Public Voice -- The Public and Public Policy -- Hasty Judgments and an Emerging Voice -- II. Searching for Balance … America's Role in the World -- The Illusory Flight of Hawk and Dove -- Seeing Ourselves … and Our Responsibilities -- Values, Interests … and the "Rights" of Others -- Commonalities of Concern … in a New Century -- The Trace of a Collective Will -- III. Shared Experience and Collective Understanding … the Outcomes of Public Deliberation -- The Modes of Public Politics -- Framing a Public Purpose … the Immigration "Problem" -- Fixing a Direction … the Energy "Problem" -- A Deliberative Political Culture -- IV. Facing the Odds … When Knowing What We Like is not Enough -- The Citizens' Challenge-and the Government's? -- Disagreement, Compromise … or Understanding -- The Political Import of Public Thought -- V. Deliberative Communities … the Persistence of Popular Will -- Deliberative Learning, Common Trust, and Individual Need -- Public Education … the Problems We Live With -- A Community's Problem … Leaving People Behind -- The Community, Practicing Politics -- VI. Reclaiming the Public Role -- Voice and Judgment -- Reflection … and Experience -- Coming to Knowing -- Acknowledgements … and a Note on the Sources -- Bibliography -- About the Author.