Does the European Union (EU) represent a new political order replacing the old nation-states? The assessment of the real character of political orders requires the identification of political key actors and of the specific structure of their interactions. Transgovernmental networks have been considered to be one of the most important features of EU integration. Unfortunately, the network struct...

Abstract The paper investigates phenomenology’s possibilities to describe, reflect and critically analyse political legal orders. It presents a “toolbox” of methodological reflections, tools topics, by relating the classics tradition emerging movement “critical phenomenology,” as well touching upon current issues such experiences rightlessness, in digital lifeworld, public sphere. is argued tha...

This article offers a critical synthesis of the positive political economy literature on political institutions from the perspective of sustainability. We consider a socio-economic system sustainable if it allows humans to live lives they deem meaningful and is capable of renewing itself over extended periods of time. Institutions that maintain order, reduce conflict, and allow collective decis...

abstract: the objective of this paper is to measure and explain the relationship between facebook users’ social capital and their political participation in real world. following political changes in the world and in the middle east, there are growing interest among researchers to work on political participation and facebook usage. we therefore developed this interest into this research paper i...