During the nineteenth century, most Western societies extended voting rights, a decision that led to unprecedented redistributive programs. We argue that these political reforms can be viewed as strategic decisions by political elites to prevent widespread social unrest and revolution. Political transition, rather than redistribution under existing political institutions, occurs because current...

Research on ICT and the public discourse often focuses on how ICT can be used to increase citizen participation in political decision-making processes. The Italian Five Star Movement (5SM) represents a novel approach to using ICT to include citizens, and a big challenge for the traditional political actors. The 5SM was initiated outside the established political systems, with the use of Interne...

Numerous papers have reported great success at inferring the political orientation of Twitter users. This paper has some unfortunate news to deliver: while past work has been sound and often methodologically novel, we have discovered that reported accuracies have been systemically overoptimistic due to the way in which validation datasets have been collected, reporting accuracy levels nearly 30...

We investigate whether beliefs about the income distribution are associated with political positions for or against redistribution. Using a novel elicitation method, we assess individuals’ beliefs about the shape of the income distribution in the United States. We find that beliefs about inequality, measured in terms of income dispersion, play only a marginal role in political positions as well...

Here we introduce the Genetic and Environmental Foundations of Political and Economic Behaviors: A Panel Study of Twins and Families (PIs Alford, Hatemi, Hibbing, Martin, and Smith). This study was designed to explore the genetic and environmental influences on social, economic, and political behaviors and attitudes. It involves identifying the psychological mechanisms that operate on these tra...

war and war-related concepts constitute a considerable portion of key words in political literature and strategic-security studies. apart from its theoretical significance, war is a palpable term for the individuals and political players. it is a serious threat to humanity that has been paid due attention in the course of history by the political philosophers, strategists and even ordinary peop...

sociology of literature, on the one hand, is related to sociology and ,on the other hand, to literature.this approach mainly focuses on the structure and the content of the literary work and its relation to the society. it also scrutinizes the interaction between literature and the society as well as how the writer reflects social issues from intellectual, religious and social perspectives inth...

10 / research in arabic language and literature: foreign languages faculty research biannual journal (autumn winter 2012-2013) issue 7 the manifestations of post-modernism in the novel barari alhoma by ibrahim nasr-allah ahmad reza saedi * aliyeh jafari zadeh ** abstract the word post-modernism expresses a new era in the history of western civilization, which is known by the feeling of disillus...