The Meso-World: Tiny Publics and Political Action

Tiny Publics: Small Groups and Civil Society*

It has been conventional to conceptualize civic life through one of two core images: the citizen as lone individualist or the citizen as joiner. Drawing on analyses of the historical development of the public sphere, we propose an alternative analytical framework for civic engagement based on small group interaction. By embracing this micro-level approach, we contribute to the debate on civil s...

Tiny Medicine, Big World

Designing Networked Publics for Communicative Action

Discriminative Distance-Based Network Indices and the Tiny-World Property

Distance-based indices, including closeness centrality, average path length, eccentricity and average eccentricity, are important tools for network analysis. In these indices, the distance between two vertices is measured by the size of shortest paths between them. However, this measure has shortcomings. A well-studied shortcoming is that extending it to disconnected graphs (and also directed g...

Imam Khomeini’s Intellectual Foundations and Indicators of Political Action in the Arena of Domestic Policy

Foundation and management of the newlyestablished Islamic Republic of Iran system based on Imam Khomeini’sintellectual bases, including God-centeredness, obligation- centerednessattitudes, and as...