Scheming the Political Landscape: A New Communist Domain

Career Mobility and the Communist Political Order

Turkey’s Domestic Political Landscape

For those unfamiliar with the story, the first part of this article summarises the main developments in Turkey’s politics since the last general elections, held in December 1995, and the current position of the government with its short-run prospects. The second part tries to broaden the focus, by considering future perspectives in a variety of contexts. These include the future of the party sy...

Perceiving the political landscape: ego biases in cognitive political networks

Recent studies have found that individuals tend to see themselves as more central in a network than they really are. This body of work has generally been done among small groups of <30 actors. Additionally, settings have usually been in a well-bounded social context focusing on friendship or work relations. Other related research has found links between activity and influence in a network and a...

The Political Processes of Administering Landscape Preservation

Interest groups reside within the jurisdiction of a local government. Most of them are concerned about administrative processes in city halls. They are eager to get benefits from city halls, and in order to have strong influence over these processes. They think that their interests should be reflected in the administrative processes. However, the interest groups are in serious conflict each oth...

Trajectories of Entropy and "the Labour Question": The Political Economy of Post-communist Migration in the New Europe

This article begins by outlining the global historical context of contingent neoliberalism which has emerged in the late twentieth century as the dominant alternative economic trajectory to that of corporatist liberal welfare capitalism. Our analysis connects contemporary dimensions of labour migration and the challenges of economic development. It is relevant to the understanding of contempora...