INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

Although the 2011 uprisings in Egypt led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, they have not yet been able to change the nature of the country’s political system. A year after the country’s first non-military president took office, Egypt’s political situation became more or less similar to the way it had been before 2011. The structure of the relationship between the state and the society in Egypt, hig...

Historians, particularly in Canada, have yet to make a significant contribution to the study o f contemporary social movements. State funding, ideological conflict, and demographic change had a critical impact on social movements in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, as this case study o f the Ligue des droits de l’homme (Montreal) shows. These developments distinguished the first (1930s-1950s) fro...

Social media as the prominent phenomenon of digital culture has become infrastructure for social and political movements. Digital platforms such Facebook Twitter have practical tools movements, especially communicating, organizing, gaining wider publicity. However, a more careful study shows that activism on can only an impactful socio-political movement if it meets requirements contemporary cu...

The World Social Forum (WSF) seeks to bring together, in its own words, all those who oppose ‘‘neo-liberal globalisation’’ and ‘‘imperialism in all its forms’’. It hopes to serve as their common meeting-ground. It has adopted as its principal mode of operation the concept of the ‘‘open space’’. This concept is highly original; it is also quite controversial among the participants of the WSF its...

Purpose – To theorize and research the conditions under which a highprofile social movement organization (SMO) receives newspaper coverage advantageous to it. Design/methodology approach – To explain coverage quality, including ‘‘standing’’ – being quoted – and ‘‘demands’’ – prescribing lines of action – we advance a story-centered perspective. This combines ideas about the type of article in w...