This paper explores the features of political economy in the dynamics of representative politics in India. Politics is seen as enhancing economic benefits through acquiring and maintenance of power in the realm of democratic set up. The system of representation is riddled with competitive populism. Emerging leaders and parties are forced to accommodate their ideologies in coping with competitiv...

With a diverse sample (n = 231 paired responses) of employees from various organizations in Pakistan, we tested for the main effects of perceived organizational politics and psychological capital on turnover intentions, job satisfaction, and supervisor rated job performance. We also examined the moderating influence of psychological capital in the politics – outcomes relationships. Results prov...

Although government intervention in economies has been widely debated lately, the extent to which government and market affect employees’ perceptions about their organization remains inadequately discussed. We took the initial steps to create measures of perceived government influence and perceived market influence, and examined how they might be associated with organizational politics and just...

Medicare spends more than $200 billion a year; the politics surrounding the Medicare program cannot be fully understood without an adequate appreciation of that fact. An understanding of the political economy of Medicare is perhaps best achieved by thinking along three dimensions: (1) Medicare as redistributive politics; (2) Medicare as special-interest politics; and (3) Medicare as distributiv...

Author's bio: Stephen Bocking is Professor of environmental politics and history at Trent University. His most active area of research is the roles of expertise in environmental politics, viewed both historically and in terms of various contemporary issues. His books include: Nature’s Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers, 2004); Biodiversity in Canada: Ecology, Ideas, and Ac...

Abstract Academic studies of mission and politics in Angola Mozambique began earnest the late 1980s. This article describes what literature built on, debates it engaged 1990s, how has evolved since. It looks at writings discussions about politics, African Christianity, anthropology, photography, ‘boomerang effect’, Pentecostalism, among others. The objective is to offer a panorama literature, s...

Emotions matter in politics – enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Yet, in much of Western political thought, emotions are either ignored or derided as destructive to democracy. Until recently, scholarship in political science paid little sustained attention to how emotions such as anx...

Gender mainstreaming, as a consequence of the gender concept, means that there is no such a thing as gender-neutral policies. Gender politics cannot be restricted to special domains such as family politics, and the challenge to overcome gender barriers cannot be managed by isolated measures such as establishing women‘s representatives in organizations [Metz-Göckel/Kamphans 2005]. According to t...

This article bridges Sri Lankan studies and the academic debate on the relation between contemporary Islam and politics. It constitutes a case study of the Muslim community in Akkaraipattu on Sri Lanka’s war-ridden east coast. Over two decades of ethnically colored conflict have made Muslim identity of paramount importance, but the meanings attached to that identity vary substantively. Politici...

Trust matters profoundly for many dimensions of political life. In this article we focus on political trust: how the trust or mistrust citizens have toward the political process, politicians and government affects politics. Prior research has shown that political trust influences such crucial dimensions of politics as the basic legitimacy of government, political participation, voting behavior,...