Identifying Islamist Parties Using Gunther and Diamond’s Typology

SPECIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES A New Typology

While the literature already includes a large number of party typologies, they are increasingly incapable of capturing the great diversity of party types that have emerged worldwide in recent decades, largely because most typologies were based upon West European parties as they existed in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Some new party types have been advanced, but in an ad ...

Ethno-regionalist parties in Europe: a typology

There is barely any agreement in the literature on the way one should compare the political parties defending the interest of a specific community on a particular territory – the ethno-regionalist parties – and classify them. Based on the analysis of the ideological positions of ethno-regionalist parties in Western Europe, this article suggests a identification of these parties, partially relyi...

What Accounts for the Success of Islamist Parties in the Arab World?

Laden and Islamist Terrorism

Digging for diamonds: Identifying valuable end-user code in repositories

To a large extent, repositories of end-user code are “write-only”: much of the code that people publish never sees substantial reuse. Yet buried within these repositories are valuable pieces of code, though finding them is not always easy. In prior work, we developed a model that can predict, when a web macro is created, whether that script will be reused by anybody. In the current paper, we an...