Pk ter having experienced the worst of barbarities, could the twentieth century nonetheless be remembered for its defense of human rights? For it is clear, that the debates generated by the protection of human rights are now among the most important in our societies, taking the place of general debates around political issues. In addition, for several years, the United Nations has placed human ...

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 parliaments elected by proportional systems the seats are allocated to the political parties roughly proportionally to the shares of votes for the party lists obtained in elections. Assuming that members of the parliament representing the same party are voting together, it has sense to require that distribution of the influence of the parties in parliamentary decision making is proportional ...

Considering the cosmology with mythological form of consciousness era as the primary base of metaphysical form and the basis of development toward an integrated cosmology, political ideas has been placed in an organic link with a metaphysical system in the ancient Persians as well as Chinese political thought. Based on considerable similarities among cosmological systems in civilizations e.g....

The article concerns the novel Plague (1989) by Valeriy Shevchuk, in which author explores motif of epidemic. In novel, epidemic is a metaphor for lack historical and cultural memory caused an oppressive political system. Presented as form national amnesia, it serves background reflection on post-totalitarian heritage contemporary Ukrainian society. Shevchuk’s based documents, but not work lite...

The present study addresses the Pahlavi era regarding the political system, and it is to investigate and analyze authoritarian governments. The study which is a historical-documentary one, also deals with the consequences of authoritarianism in the Pahlavi era and the impacts of historical-geographical conditions of Iran on the emergence and durability of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is c...