The article examines the role of European left parties in politics their countries and Union. author main types parties, program goals electorate. Modern left-wing terms ideological orientation are mostly representatives social democrats, Greens, democratic socialists communists, which roughly corresponds to party coalitions existing Parliament, with exception communists Marxist-Leninist type p...

globalization, as the most important change at recent age, depends on developing of science, technology and information. it has several effects on aspects of human activities such as social and political studies and changing ideas. moreover, power, the central concept in politics, has confronted different approaches. so, any subject, e.g. political development, needs re-definition and re-explan...

Analysis how to use Internet influence to the process of political communication, marketing and the management of public relations, what kind of online communication methods are used by political parties, and to assess satisfaction, means of communication and the services they provide to their party's voters (people) and other interest groups and whether social networks can affect the political...

Questions of policy formation/implementation are often translated into the language of power, and the policy process is undoubtedly a political issue rather than a technical issue. Studies of the policy process are used to apply either a structural or individual perspective to explain power distribution in policy formation/implementation and have also led to the methodological puzzle of what th...

Web sites of Slovenian political parties do not fully exploit the Internet’s potential for interactive and deliberative communication on political issues with citizens, because they favour a competitive-elitist perception of democracy. As result, political party’s web sites are mainly used for political mobilization, agitation in persuasion. Supporting this model of democracy via web pages enab...

SUMMARY The current political and economic situation of Indonesia is characterised since 1999 by the transition from thirty years of autocratic leadership to a more democratic, pluralistic and open society. The reform process has already made remarkable progress in the field of human rights. The ongoing decentralisation process is a fundamental change to the political and institutional setup of...

Background National/social health insurance schemes have increasingly been seen in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as a vehicle to universal health coverage (UHC) and a viable alternative funding mechanism for the health sector. Several countries, including Ghana, have thus introduced and implemented mandatory national health insurance schemes (NHIS) as part of reform efforts towa...

BACKGROUND The Kingdon model, based on the convergence of three streams (problem, policy, and politics) and the opening of a policy window, analyses the process by which a health issue is placed on the political agenda. We used this model to document the political agenda-setting process of the newborn hearing screening programme in Belgium. METHODS A qualitative study based on a document revi...