one of the most important macro-economic objectives of the countries is to create the necessary conditions for promoting economic growth. among them, we can point to political stability and economic freedom. political instability leads to wasting physical and human resources and social capital, which will be considered as an economic rollback. also, the rate of economic growth is associated wit...

This analysis takes on the ritual infanticide of criança-irân as an explanatory framework for recurrent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, using concepts humanness and community. The is a practice connected to belief existence spirit-children: some babies are believed be spirits (irân) encased human flesh. Thus, these beings neither nor spirits. culturally embedded conceptualisation challe...

The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability is as a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability bears substantial welfare costs. Using the variance of transitory earnings estimated using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) a...

In this research, a case study was conducted, analyzing the Twitter messages posted between July and November 2015 by six political leaders in Turkey. The Twitter messages posted by President Erdoğan, AKP’s leader Davutoğlu, CHP’s leader Kılıçdaroğlu, MHP’s leader Bahçeli and HDP’s co-chairs Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ were all examined. The analysis focused primarily on the messages that were relat...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

In recent years, housing costs have outpaced incomes in the United States, resulting millions of eviction filings each year. Yet no study has examined link between and voting. Drawing on a novel data set that combines tens voting records, this article finds residential rates negatively impacted voter turnout during 2016 presidential election. Results from generalized additive model show evictio...