This empirical study examines the reactions of 114 political science graduates in Malaysia, through a questionnaire-based survey on power transition crisis that took place February 23rd to 1 March 2020. Throughout these “seven long days”, there was little opportunity given university students, who were concerned with Malaysian affairs, share their views light “Sheraton Move” polemics and format...

Are Eurosceptic parties more likely to run negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns, as it is often intuitively argued? And with what consequences? In this article, we shed light on the effectiveness of these campaign strategies for during 2019 European elections. We argue that ‘harsher’ campaigns are ‘in character’ parties, such be electorally successful them. use data from Parliament Electio...

In this paper we present a model where agents can choose between 1 productive and rent-seeking activities.We consider two governance institutions: 2 autocracy and parliament rule. Under autocracy rent-seeking reflects the taste 3 of the autocrat for such activities. Under parliament rule rent-seeking depends 4 on parliament voting. We show that under parliament rule the size of rent5 seeking ma...

The defining feature of parliamentary democracies is the fact that the executive derives its mandate from and is politically responsible to the legislature. This implies that who forms the government is not determined by an election alone, but is the outcome of a bargaining process among the parties represented in the parliament. Furthermore, it implies that the government may terminate at any ...

This paper aims at investigating the feasibility of adopting a secure e-voting based on authenticity biometrics in conducting election Jordan parliamentarians consol. It firstly investigates Jordanian citizens’ acceptance level an system biometric credentials as supportive solution to their attitude, intention, and trust actual participation. The successor phases are directed validate biometric...

The critique of the theory secularisation has favoured emergence a series concepts for analysis contemporary socio-religious transformations, such as ‘culturalised religion’. These categories constitute, in turn, an opportunity to rethink process from perspective historical sociology. Against this background, article carries out theoretical ambiguities Spain which cultural approach religion (‘c...

The political scene of the European Union (EU) presents a discursive field where identity construction becomes vital tool for parties to claim credit and legitimize themselves. While pro-European utilize narratives an in-group identity, Eurosceptic problematize gap between ‘us’ ‘them’ by employing intergroup differentiation as instrument re/shape reality. scholarly literature mostly focuses on ...

This research note explores the role of reported attention to politics in survey overclaiming about politics. Using recognition real and fictitious political parties context UK's 2019 European Parliament elections, we find that people who report higher are more likely over-report parties, also recognize new - those emerged around issue ‘Brexit’ months before election. To resolve these patterns,...

Many observers predicted that the catastrophic earthquake of February 2023 and huge unprecedent problems high inflation cost living crisis would end Erdogan era his credibility in Turkey. However, despite all ongoing deep problems, AKP government, after more than 20 years power, still managed to win elections second round. It seems none serious economic political were enough get majority votes ...