Single-issue Ratifiers or Political Deliberators?

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

The Issue of Woman in Ghasem Amin’s Political Thought

Ghasem Amin is known as a harbinger of women’s social and cultural rights in the world of Arabs. Primarily, he centered his ideas on three axes: a; women’s education to the primary level, B; necessity of women’s free will and decision making in issues like marriage, c; religious veil (covering all the body except the face and the two palms); although the outcomes of his ideas require more discu...

Issue Advocacy and Mass Political Sophistication

We present a game-theoretic model of political discourse that explores how strategic incentives to make potentially persuasive arguments vary across different informational contexts. We show that political sophistication of the listeners fundamentally affects the speakers’ incentives to make informative arguments, increasing the informed speech for speakers who are less likely to be successful ...

Political Communication and Financial Performance in Banks: Opportunity or Threat

 Political relationships can have both a positive and a negative impact on bank performance, which requires an empirical analysis to identify its impact. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between political communication and financial performance of banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange and OTC. In this study, in order to test the research hypothesis,...

Political Careers or Career Politicians?∗

Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private sector). In this paper, we propose a dynamic equilibrium model of the careers of politicians in an environme...