This paper considers a problem of political economy in which a Nash equilibrium study is performed in a proposed game with restrictions where the two major parties in a country vary their position within a politically flexible framework to increase their number of voters. The model as presented fits the reality of many countries. Moreover, it avoids the uniqueness of equilibrium positions. The ...

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The article discusses the relationship between political parties and the state in Estonia. The analysis focuses on the development of a legal framework for political parties, different trends in public party financing, and the circulation of people between political and administrative elites. Elite circulation is examined by looking at the movement of people from political to bureaucratic posit...

Political parties are part of the embodiment democracy. In political context, its existence is very important as a liaison between sovereign government and people it leads. The Constitutional Court has authority to dissolve in Indonesia. So that there 3 types rulings applying for dissolution party by Court, one which application granted. If request granted, decision panel declares cancel legal ...

Contributors to this panel discussion were asked to reflect, in less than 3,000 words, ‘on how, specifically or generally, Innovation Studies (broadly defined) might have or already does have potential for yielding distinctive critical perspectives or data (broadly defined) on issues beyond Innovation (or Science & Technology Studies). The intention is to use the Panel to generate discussions w...

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

This article explores the particular challenges facing researchers interviewing political elites in a divided society. With evidence from interviews with former ministers in the Northern Ireland power-sharing government from 1999 to 2002, I demonstrate that researchers must consider a number of concerns relating to identity, bias and the polarised positions of politicians in a divided society. ...

Experimental subjects evaluated a candidate for local office whose face was digitally altered to absorb the subjects’ facial structure. For half of the subjects, the photograph of the candidate was morphed such that the image presented was a blend composed of 60% of the unfamiliar Caucasian male and 40% of the subject. For the other half the photograph was unaltered. Given previous research on ...

Formal models of elections have emphasized the convergence of party leaders towards the centre of the electoral distribution. This paper attempts to resolve the apparent disparity between the formal result and the perception of political divergence by considering a model incorporating valence. Valence can be interpreted as the non-policy basis of political judgement made by the electorate conce...

Automatic content analysis is more and more becoming an accepted research method in social science. In political science researchers are using party manifestos and transcripts of political speeches to analyze the positions of different actors. Existing approaches are limited to a single dimension, in particular, they cannot distinguish between the positions with respect to a specific topic. In ...