Barrier or Opportunity? Political Islam and Support for Women’s Political Participation in Morocco

Political Communication and Financial Performance in Banks: Opportunity or Threat

 Political relationships can have both a positive and a negative impact on bank performance, which requires an empirical analysis to identify its impact. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between political communication and financial performance of banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange and OTC. In this study, in order to test the research hypothesis,...

The Political Economy of Women’s Support for Fundamentalist Islam

Why do some women in Muslim countries adopt fundamentalist Islamic value systems that promote gender-based inequalities while others do not? This article considers the economic determinants of fundamentalist beliefs in the Muslim world, as women look either to marriage or employment to achieve financial security. Using cross-national public opinion data from eighteen countries with significant ...

Political Efficacy and political participation

Non-electoral Political Participation, Mobilization and Political Opportunity Structure in Western Democracies

The contextual theory of political participation in non-electoral politics developed in this paper supposes that more open political opportunity structure of a respective state increases both, the individual non-electoral participation and mobilization into this participation, since the decentralized political institutions send a message that more access points to influence politics are availab...

Political Islam and Militancy: a Political Economy Approach

Given inevitable constraints of the fiscal year framework for development planning, not to mention the day to day rush of project design and implementation, development policymakers and practitioners often simply lack the time to engage in longer term strategic planning. While there is usually a general sense of what they want to see happen 10 years down the line, there is still a need to think...