Agricultural systems are situated within social and political environments that have tremendous influence on how they operate. If agricultural systems are to be sustainable, it is critical to understand how they are influenced by social and political factors. An expert panel approach was used to identify and rank the importance of social and political factors on agricultural systems in the US a...

In this paper we model political risk for international capital budgeting as the value of a hypothetical insurance policy that pays the holder any and all losses arising from political events. We address three important aspects of political risk that are widely acknowledged in the literature but either missing or incomplete in existing mathematical models: 1) loss causing political events arise...

Recent research has found a surprising degree of homogeneity in the personal political communication network of individuals but this work has focused largely on the tendency to sort into likeminded social, workplace, and residential political contexts. We extend this line of research into one of the most fundamental and consequential of political interactions – that between sexual mates. Using ...

Currently, there are many weblog that have been posting many story and news about political issues in Malaysia. Therefore, it draws Internet space as an area for political bloggers to be involves in cyber war. There are many factors that contribute to this cyber war such as opinions from bloggers, spreading of rumors and information through cyberspace. Most of the political leaders from politic...

This research is an integration of previous work on political activity and examines a variety of factors thought to be influential in the performance and nonperformance of political behavior. The political participation of a randomly selected sample of local citizens was studied using survey research methods. One hundred and twenty-six individuals responded to survey items assessing participati...

Social media may liberate citizens in societies with stringent media controls and accelerate political democratization. Yet, little is known about the relation between social media use and perceived constraints in a semi-authoritarian system. This study draws on Media System Dependency theory to examine this relation in the context of the 2011 Singapore General Election. Our findings, based on ...

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Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to investigate processes by which some moral ideas spread more rapidly or broadly than others. Here, we show that the expression of moral emotion is key for the spread of moral and political ideas in online social networks, ...

In the ordinary debate about the political culture decline, social networks have recently changed the social scenario, showing its relevance in down-up social movements. Therefore, social networks are taken here as a potential place for the existence of active citizens ones that are able and keen about political action in a common world or community. Such recent political revitalization demonst...