The article makes an interlocution between Psychoanalysis, Discourse Analysis and Criminology, using the ADL (David Libermerman Algorithm) as a theoretical instrument. It covers understanding of concepts possibility application in analysis testimony politicians who were convicted white collar crimes. In this work we propose presentation objectives, research problem framework.

OBJECTIVE Due to the nature of their work, politicians are at greater risk of stalking, harassment and attack than the general population. The small, but significantly elevated risk of violence to politicians is predominantly due not to organised terrorism or politically motivated extremists but to fixated individuals with untreated serious mental disorders, usually psychosis. Our objective was...

Why are voters influenced by the views of local patrons when casting their ballots? The existing literature suggests that coercion and personal obligations underpin this form of clientelism, causing voters to support candidates for reasons tangential to political performance. However, voters who support candidates preferred by local patrons may be making sophisticated political inferences. In m...

Politics has always attracted the attention of the media, citizens organizations, and the general public. Recent years have also witnessed a global process of “spectacularization” of politics, which among other things has resulted in a dramatic increase in the amount of information available about many facets of political life. Politicians, for example, are literally public figures, and much of...

Iranian traditional architecture is one of the world's architectures par excellence. It was one of the most important architectures in the medieval Islamic world. Iranian architecture has developed over millennia in response to its religion. Many traditional and vernacular buildings in Iran show that the architects had been so clever in harmonizing the Iranian religion and architecture in the p...

As moral hazard problems in political decision making abound, the quality of government decisions does not only depend on politicians’ competence, but also on their motivation. This paper develops a three-party model of electoral competition in which politicians differ in competence, in policy preferences, and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to t...

Objective: This study aimed to provide a normative study documenting how 114 five-seven year-old non-‎patient Iranian children respond to the Rorschach test. We compared this especial sample to ‎international normative reference values for the Comprehensive System (CS).‎ Method: One hundred fourteen 5- 7- year-old non-patient Iranian children were recruited from public ‎schools. Using five chil...

Governments and legislatures in Europe have created or greatly strengthened independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). Yet they also retain many formal controls over those agencies. The article analyses whether elected politicians have used their powers to create IRAs in their own image and kept IRAs under tight control or whether they have allowed IRAs to become a distinct set of actors, and henc...