Gatekeeping/Information Control is exercised frequently and daily in virtual communities. In this context, Gatekeeping mainly exists in four different levels of stakeholders: formal regulators, infrastructure regulators (e.g., service providers), communities’ managers and members of the communities (serving in two roles: as representatives of the communities or as individuals). The article anal...

This paper focuses on how scientific information can make more effective contributions to the public policy of natural resources and the environment. Scientific information can play a crucial role in reining in special interest politics, but it can also be abused, rendering scientific inputs into the policy process ineffective. Natural resource policy often reflects the politics of sleight of h...

tion of the national security community. Yet there is an emerging consensus among experts that one of the largest policy problems faced in cyberspace may be not a question of military threats in a new domain, but the massive exfiltration of competitive information from American companies. Economic espionage has existed at least since the industrial revolution, but the scope of modern cyber-enab...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 365 I. TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY POLITICS, POLICY, AND FEDERALISM ..................................................... 366 II. TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION COMPARED TO OTHER INDUSTRIES.................................................................. 368 III. ADDRESSING THE DACA PROPOSALS ........

although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. the most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the us, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as public diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

J. David Singer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. A pioneer in the effort to render the study of international politics more scientific, his many important works include authorship of Deterrence, Arms Control, and Disarmament (1962) and editorship of Human Behavior and International Politics (1965) and Quantitative International Politics (1968). As can be seen in ...

This article agrees with recent arguments suggesting that normative and epistemic power is rife within global health policy and provides further examples of such. However, in doing so, it is argued that it is equally important to recognize that global health is, and always will be, deeply political and that some form of power is not only necessary for the system to advance, but also to try and ...

The aim of this work focuses on the relationship among the Dark Triad (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), perceptions of organizational politics, political skills, and counterproductive work behavior. This study empirically tests the mediating role of perceptions of organizational politics in the relationship between the Dark Triad and counterproductive work behavior. Furthermore, ...