One of India's most pressing challenges is gender equality. Women have faced discrimination in the political process as well social and economic spheres. Politically, women are side-lined. Since independence, women's engagement democratic has consistently been minimal. The participation nation began to increase after numerous initiatives, including constitutional amendment for reservation. Glob...

Scholars and practitioners agree that dealing with complex policy problems poses a challenge of integration. In other words, we need to understand how integrate new into existing policies create linkages between systems. Up now, the scientific literature has focused on integration predominantly from design perspective. This special issue puts focus political aspects process. The papers examine ...

members of the 67th world health assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide world health organization (who) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of who reform kick-started in 2011. according to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (ngos), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...