The article provides a critical assessment of the more recent literature that relies on theoretical frameworks such as post modernism and globalization to deal with national identity, ethnicity and cultural mobility. Explaining sensitive and complicated issues such as identity requires the extensive use of the native historical, cultural and sociological sources related to the Iranian experienc...

Within one tradition of Western thought, politics and the arts have been categorized as distinct and separate entities. So when aesthetics is under discussion, political concern is often dismissed as dogmatic, ephemeral, or partial, and when politics is of chief interest, aesthetics is swept aside as immaterial, insubstantial, or obscure. The way literature has been defined and categorized in t...

among the components of human culture, literature includes a systemic deep structure. based on this deep structure, a reader can understand the meaning of the surface structures. originating from this view to the deep structure or the depth of the text, branches of literature and critical literature were created which sought to reveal the meanings by examining the interrelationship and replacem...

1 Introduction This work investigates classification of emails sent by the political parties during the 2004 presidential election. Given an email without contextual information, we classify it as originating from either the Republican or Democratic Party. While this type of task is well practiced in the political communication literature, we use this exercise to demonstrate a new methodologica...

The purpose of this paper is to posit a definition of a political brand alliance, and thereby advance the political marketing and brand marketing literature. This is achieved by building upon and extending Erevelles et al (2008, p.32) definition of brand alliance, and applying it to the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Parties’ Westminster level coalition, established in 2010. The paper argues...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...