The aim of this study is to examine the impact of Biradarism on the politics of Punjab in general and on the politics of the Khanewal District in particular. The concept of Biradarism is defined and distinguished from the concept of caste system in the Hindu culture and society. Different aspects of Biradarism which determine the voting behaviour and pattern in the subject area are carefully vi...

William Davies’ The Limits of Neo-Liberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (Sage, 2014) provides a searching new investigation of the meaning and implications of the neo-liberal project. Davies identifies neo-liberalism as centrally concerned with the replacement of politics by economics. He examines the consequent efforts of economic experts to make government amenable t...

Nigeria has had an elected federal government only 17 of its 46 years since independence in 1960; experiencing a civil war, 1967-70 (Nafziger 1983); persistent military repression; and a series of irregular regime transfers through overthrows, assassinations, and coups. “The consequences of frequent military intervention in Nigerian politics have been devastating – human rights repression, mili...

This paper follows the social and political history of OZE, the Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Population, in the interwar period. We focus on two campaigns against typhus and favus, the first two disease oriented efforts by OZE, in order to reconstruct the operational approaches, considerations and obstacles faced by OZE as a Jewish organization and transnational part...

3. Any term/concept, if not sufficiently defined (as in mathematics or physics) but focused on the IRRIIS needs should have an explicit working definition which has to enable to use it as an operational concept ( it means some set of operations on it are possible). For example, these definitions should enable in the computational manner : a clear separation of the LCCIs networks layers : physic...

The present paper investigated the role of social media in youth participatory politics. A survey of university students was conducted in March, 2013. The findings of the present study indicated that a large number of the respondents participated in political activities through social media. Facebook provided the respondents with common platform to discuss issues confronting Pakistani society. ...

It is clear that many young citizens of this digital and global age have demonstrated interests in making contributions to society. Yet the challenge of engaging effectively with politics linked to spheres of government is difficult for most. A casual look at world democracies suggests that many of the most established ones are showing signs of wear. Parties are trying to reinvent themselves wh...

Women’s participation in politics is low throughout the world – also in Cameroon. In this article we examine young Cameroonians perceptions of women politicians. To analyse Cameroonians perceptions of women in politics from a perspective of change we took social representations theory (SRT) as our theoretical starting point. All together 45 Anglophone and Francophone students participated in ei...