The idea that political institutions can be deliberately shaped or “engineered” in order to achieve desired political outcomes is hardly new-the authors of the Constitution of the United States, for example, vigorously debated various configurations of rules, constraints, and incentives that might simultaneously disperse political power over a wide range of actors, while at the same time provid...

during many years after second world war, keynos and welfare economy dominated europe and many other countries. transpiring the depression in 1970's and welfare government failure, market economy was observed by west politicians and voters. hayek was one of the few intellectuals who theoretically and practically opposed the welfare and keynes government by raising the economical spontaneou...

Health promotion is inherently political. Not only is it largely funded by government, but the very nature of the enterprise requires shifts in power. Political theory has much to contribute to an understanding of the politics of health promotion. In this paper three key political theories are explained and their insights for health promotion explored. They are then applied to the development o...

One of the aims of spatial political management is to increase access to social and economic services to all residents in an area in order to enhance their satisfaction. There is a great space in the action that has a broad scope.  If the spatial political organization implemented in a country is unable to organize such services in a condensed manner, it will face reduced efficiency and la...

Over the past five years or so, in the streets of places like Seattle, Washington DC, Genoa, Goteborg and Montreal, an extraordinary and diverse protest movement has been critiquing and resisting the dominant political-economic order. That order is characterized by (1) the increasing control of large corporations over material life and the persistent extension of capitalist social relations; an...

Ubaid-Allah Sindhi is among those very few political thinkers and activists of the twentieth-century India who were initially associated with the traditional theological seminaries but their political vision was marked by liberalism and openmindedness. He established a non-communal political party— Mahabharat Sarvrajia Party in 1924 in order to translate his political ideals into practice. The ...

This article examines the use of the Internet by a range of political actors in the 2004 European Parliament election in Britain—candidates, citizens, parties, government, pressure groups, and the media. Specifically, it surveys the structure of online political communications and the amount and nature of electoral information and engagement opportunities available to citizens in the framework ...

Introduction This progress report proceeds from a political ecology vantage point to explore the engagement by political ecologists with human health. Literature in political ecology, with an explicit interest in issues of health, remains a somewhat recent and narrow field of enquiry within the discipline. This paper explores this body of literature within its broader intellectual terrain along...

Evidence for political effects from fictional programming remains thin. In this study we offer a conservative test of the political power of fictional television dramas by evaluating whether minor differences in character portrayals and plot details affect viewers’ attitudes and policy preferences. We rely on a variation on the switching replications design in which a representative sample watc...