European Migration Crisis: Positions, Polarization and Conflict Management of Slovak Political Parties

Political Parties in Conflict - Prone Societies

The Role of Political Parties in Empowering Women’s Positions in the UK Parliament

Women’s political representation has been for decades ahead of women’s rights movement. However, women presence in politics is not only limited to women political participation but their position in party politics as well. This paper aims to analyze the role of parties in empowering women at the UK parliament and tries to contribute towards the existing literature through presenting an interdis...

Political Imagination, Otherness and the European Crisis

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2015, Vol. 11(4), 557–564, doi:10.5964/ejop.v11i4.1085 Published (VoR): 2015-11-27. *Corresponding author at: Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University, Kroghstræde 3, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark. E-mail: [email protected] This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/...

Political Parties and Democracy

A central claim of democratic theory is that democracy induces governments to be responsive to the preferences of the people. Political parties organize politics in every modern democracy, and some observers claim that parties are what induce democracies to be responsive. Yet, according to others, parties give voice to extremists and reduce the responsiveness of governments to the citizenry. Th...

Political Conflict and Migration: How Has Violence and Political Instability Affected Migration Patterns in Nepal?

This paper is a study of migration during a period of violent, political conflict in Nepal. Past studies of conflict-induced migration have generally treated conflict as a homogenous event and focused largely on the violent aspects of conflict. In this study, we examine how specific political and violent events, as well as the general context of conflict, affect migration on a monthly basis. Vi...