The article deals with the problems of analyzing political communications in social media carried out conditions global instability and a sharp increase international interregional confrontation caused, addition to reasons, by competition for dwindling resources. In such conditions, manipulative technologies are spreading extremely dynamically value foundations politics being lost. key characte...

OBJECTIVES To examine what factors influence the agenda-setting process and level of political priority afforded to micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs). DESIGN Qualitative case study employing process tracing, informed by primary data collected from semistructured interviews with policymakers. SETTING Dakar, Senegal. RESULTS Several facilitating and impeding factors affecting the level of p...

The paper is about the paradigms we could employ to understand what is often termed ‘bad governance’ in the global South – the relatively low effectiveness and accountability of many states. The first part is a bit polemical, and perhaps takes too seriously the problem of finding a minimally coherent and useful definition of globalisation. I suggest that the concept of globalisation is not a ve...

Political communication often takes complex linguistic forms. Understanding political ideology from text is an important methodological task in studying political interactions between people in both new and traditional media. Therefore, there has been a spate of recent research that either relies on, or proposes new methodology for, the classification of political ideology from text data. In th...