INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

How do political institutions shape government size and redistributional policies? An empirical model proposes a possible framework to evaluate sign and magnitude of the relation. Political institutions are classified in complementary constraints, namely political competition, competition in executive recruitment and constraints on the executive. Results show that the stronger democratic instit...

extended abstract 1.introduction relationship pattern has a complex, combinational and also intelligible nature in the current geopolitical structure of the world. civilizations’ relations together and civilization interactions include: engagement, competition and conflict in a range of geopolitical treatment pattern. some of spatial values which originated challenges among region country have ...

“Green ideology” and the risk for the environment – Cause-effect Relation an Implementation. Part 1. Political aspects, morphology and implementation The objective of the report is to give the political characteristics and features of the “green ideology”; to describe the political conditions and the political situation with respect to the management of the environment; to define the characteri...

This paper offers an approach to analyzing political rhetoric in videogames intended to carry ideological bias, based on cognitive linguist George Lakoff’s notion of metaphor and frame as the principle organizers or political discourse. I then argue for three ways games function in relation to ideological frames: reinforcement, contestation, and exposition through examples of political games (T...

Mentions of politicians in news articles can reflect politician interactions on their daily activities. In this work, we present a mathematical model to represent such interactions as a graph, and we use it to predict the political affiliation for a list of deputies of the Republic of Ireland. Our results show that there is a relation between political affiliations and mentions in news reports.