Citizen engagement in and support for peace processes have been deemed important sustainable after civil wars. Yet much of what we know about wars centers on the interests elite actors. This special feature aims to advance a research agenda focusing citizens address this mismatch. In introduction feature, first present empirical evidence situating relation war processes. We then trace current s...

Abstract Recently dubbed the new ‘Asian Tiger’, Bangladesh developed a post-independence citizen-centered economic strategy that included generating non-farm jobs and constituting type of model or ideal citizen: independent, prosperous, entrepreneurial woman. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Dhaka, this article I document citizen campaigns by analyzing female ready-made garment factory worker...

BACKGROUND There is widespread agreement that the public should be engaged in health-care decision making. One method of engagement that is gaining prominence is the citizens' jury, which places citizens at the centre of the deliberative process. However, little is known about how the jury process works in a health-care context. There is even less clarity about how consumer perspectives are hea...

This paper identifies factors that influence Kazakhstan’s e-Government portal usage. It determines challenges encountered by citizens while using the portal. Targeted respondents for the web-based questionnaire survey were the citizens of Kazakhstan. The technology acceptance model was used as a methodology to measure attitude towards portal usage. In addition, this paper discusses the barriers...

Many people claim that politicians use fear to manipulate citizens. Using a model, we examine how select attributes of fear affect a politician’s ability to scare citizens into supporting policies that they would otherwise reject. In the model, the politician can alert citizens to the presence of a threat. But his claim need not be true. How citizens respond to this claim differs from most game...