during many years after second world war, keynos and welfare economy dominated europe and many other countries. transpiring the depression in 1970's and welfare government failure, market economy was observed by west politicians and voters. hayek was one of the few intellectuals who theoretically and practically opposed the welfare and keynes government by raising the economical spontaneou...

In this paper, we propose an approach for cross-lingual topical coding of sentences from electoral manifestos of political parties in different languages. To this end, we exploit continuous semantic text representations and induce a joint multilingual semantic vector spaces to enable supervised learning using manually-coded sentences across different languages. Our experimental results show tha...

Framing is a political strategy in which politicians carefully word their statements in order to control public perception of issues. Previous works exploring political framing typically analyze frame usage in longer texts, such as congressional speeches. We present a collection of weakly supervised models which harness collective classification to predict the frames used in political discourse...

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen. Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the content, prompting the need for indexing or annotating them with a common controlled vocabulary or ontology. In this paper, we investig...

The article reports the results of a 2008 national survey of political theorists concerning what and how they teach. The results are based on 1,086 responses from professors at accredited, four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The responses include information about which thinkers are currently being taught, the status of non-Western political thought in political theory edu...

Political development is among concepts that appeared in the post WW2 literature. To some such development is prerequisite to economic development and as such requires a much more serious attention by the educational system. Only if the curriculum, of which the textbooks are a major part, focuses on political development, one can hope for economic development. To assess the situation in Iranian...

Although in the history, urbanization used to represent modernism, civilization and development, in the modern social-economic context, it has becoming a big issue or headache both in the developed countries and under-developed countries. China represents a typical example of former socialist economical planning model, which in the last three decades, started to adopt capitalist market system; ...

While constitutions regulate political authority within a state, there is much we do not know about the interaction between political conditions and constitutional texts. Much of the literature relies upon hand-coded databases of constitutional texts. However, this approach raises both methodological and theoretical concerns. Advances in natural language processing, particularly latent text ana...

The strife of discrimination, prejudice and racism is barbed and brutal, converged with the theory that due to certain differences in traits (physical, intellectual, cultural or religious) some people are superior to others. Therein begins the power struggle for economical, political dominance and social advantage. Violence is very often the voice of this contorted struggle, surging forth and a...

POWER is an ontology of political processes. It is designed for tracking politicians, political organisations and elections, both in mainstream and social media. In social media, these entities (particularly humans) are frequently named by emergent abbreviations, nonstandardized acronyms, nicknames, metaphoric expressions and neologisms. Politicians are also frequently mentioned in texts by the...