The metatheory on the democratic process poses a conceptual framework for the empirical analysis of democratic processes in liberal democracies. A model of democratic processes is being developed which proceeds from certain metatheoretical presuppositions. It distinguishes, inter alia, between three subsystems of the political system and defines their relevant collective actors. Moreover, a con...

The paper examines the political business cycles theory in the case of Croatia. The paper is structured in two parts: an overview of theoretical background and an empirical analysis of opportunistic political cycles in Croatia. The first part presents a detailed insight into different political business cycle models, while the second part tests econometrically whether fiscal policy cycles exist...

Dean Fulgoni, Jordan Carpenter, Lyle Ungar, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro Computer and Information Science, 3330 Walnut St.,Philadelphia, PA 19104 Positive Psychology Center, 3701 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 University of Pennsylvania [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract News sources frame issues in different ways in order to appeal...

this article is an attempt to study two historical junctures in the history of iran: from the qajar era to the mashrooteh movement; and from the pahlavi era to the islamic revolution. the two junctures have been studied from different perspectives; however, this article concentrates only on how political legitimacy emerged and diminished in the the above-mentioned revolutions. the basic questio...

the current study examines contradictions in muhammad mahdi al-jawahiri’s political poetry. al-jawahiri led most of his life amidst the turmoil caused by the political events and developments that iraq has undergone through different periods beginning with the 1920 revolution led by religious leaders and ending with al-ba‘th party and saddam hussein. al-jawahiri has beencontradictory in his poe...

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...

Increasing globalization and advances in communication technology have fuelled the emergence of global virtual teams (GVT). There is much potential for conflict in GVT as members work across cultural, geographical, and time boundaries. This study examines the antecedents of GVT conflict and the circumstances under which conflict affects team performance. An in-depth study of GVT conflict episod...

In the information-technology powered twenty first century a general demand for more effective communication is driving people to question the present, examine the past and to prognosticate the future. The ‘unique global media-information system’ the Internetis the central fact of a vast new complexity of communication (mediated and unmediated) that is driving social-economic-political-religiou...

This article traces the migration patterns of the Russian-Germans across international borders from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire starting in 1763 up to the present day. In particular it analyses the reasons behind these migration flows. Both push and pull factors motivated the immigration of ethnic Germans to the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...

Inequalities persist when it comes to the attention, resource allocation and political prioritization, and provision of appropriate, adequate, and timely health interventions to populations in need. Set against a complex socio-political backdrop, the pressure on public health science is significant: institutions and scientists are accountable for helping to find the origins of disease, and to p...