‘Disobedient Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Contentious Politics in the European Semi-periphery’ is a research project implemented by Faculty Political Science University Zagreb, period 2016-2021, led Principal Investigator Danijela Dolenec and funded Swiss National Foundation (IZ11Z0_166540 – PROMYS). The overall objective to explore how protest politics advances democracy collecting ana...

Despite attempts in the broader literature to go beyond a binary classification of party-based Euroscepticism, Eurosceptic radical left parties are still generally divided into those advocating reform EU and calling for an exit from EU. The most notable exception is proposed by Keith (2017), who distinguishes between Rejectionist, Conditional Expansionist Euroscepticism. However, this article a...

Abstract This paper contributes to the growing body of literature that engages with ontological scholarship on fisheries management and governance, more generally, debates environmental governance. It argues governance is an challenge raises questions culture, equity, legitimacy inclusion/exclusion, requiring context-sensitive politically aware approaches. By engaging concept political ontology...

The article aims to examine the initial phase of marriage Jan Zamoyski with Griseldis Báthory, issue change bride’s name, and problems caused by newlyweds’ difference faith. Despite plans king Stephen hetman Zamoyski, young bride did not become a Catholic. Her upbringing her Protestant mother grandmother overrode political interests Catholic male relatives.

This paper deals with databases that combine different aspects: children’s speech, emotional speech, human-robot communication, crosslinguistics, and read vs. spontaneous speech: in a Wizard-of-Oz scenario, German and English children had to instruct Sony’s AIBO robot to fulfil specific tasks. In one experimental condition, strictly parallel for German and English, the AIBO behaved ‘disobedient...

A study of constructive conformity. Experimental studies have generally pointed to the negative effects of group pressure. The present experiment shows that in specifiable circumstances group pressure enables a person to resolve conflicting forces in a direction congruent with his values. In Exp. I Ss are instructed to administer increasingly more severe shocks to a victim. In Exp. II, 2 confed...

Between 1950 and 1966, about 60,000 overseas Chinese youth, officially known as qiaosheng, entered the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as students and refugees from Southeast Asia. In the state archival record, qiaosheng appeared collectively “disobedient” to socialism, first cast as “capitalist” during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and later as a “two-faced” threat during the Cultural Revo...