Islamic Populism and Village Chief Elections in Java

A Mixed Bag of Results: Village Elections in Contemporary China

While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development a...

Village Elections and the Rise of Capitalist Entrepreneurs

the village chief in qājār period

iran, in the qājār period, underwent many changes in political, social, and administrative fields. this research tries to study the changes in one of the urban positions, i.e. the position of a village chief (kadkhudā), by means of examining its historical background as well as its duties and functions, since kadkhudā as one of the social high ranking officials in iran and a subdivision of the ...

Presenting a viral recovery model in the elections of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the tenth and eleventh terms

Today, viral marketing with benefits such as lower cost and greater effectiveness, has become an ideal option for advertising strategy. This study was conducted with the aim of presenting a viral recovery model in the elections of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the tenth and eleventh terms of Iran. Required data were collected using a questionnaire. The statistical population in this stud...

When responsibility is blurred: Italian national elections in times of economic crisis, technocratic government, and ever-growing populism