politics as a new concept in iran is a subject that has involved various classes, statifications & groups. it has embraced different areas of iranians’ living. for existing researches have studied classes, iilat & some groups in iran’s political sociology, this research studies a group that political literature don’t give pay attention to that or belong on social history and very hard to study ...

Cet article examine la relation entre l’économie politique et l’éthique du journalisme d’actualités en Ukraine, après révolution de Maidan avant l’invasion russe. J’explique pourquoi les journalistes, selon qu’ils travaillaient pour des médias indépendants ou officiels, évaluent leur proximité vis-à-vis pouvoir économique termes radicalement différents point vue l’éthique. Dans deux cas, le pro...

In this paper we build a model to examine inequality of process and inequality of outcomes in interest group politics. The model has the following features: (i) interest groups which compete for rents in a noncooperative game, (ii) a self-interested rent-setting political decision maker (iii) democratic or popular pressure as a check on the self-interest of the political decision maker. We allo...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...

In this paper we present an approach to identifying patterns of behavior preceding political instability events in countries from sampled factor data. This process is based on the concept of state-space back-chaining. A list of sampled, quantized factor data sampled over a range of discrete times define a ”state-space” of a country, and the list of quantized factor data associated with a countr...