The theme of this year’s WDR is how to structure institutions to bring about an e¤ectively functioning market economy. There is no question that political institutions play a key role here. In most countries political institutions determine the rules of access to considerable discretionary coercive power. Political institutions determine the context in which key functions of government are unde...

While many, mostly American, scholars have recently conducted quantitative and qualitative investigations of the structure and content of political blogs, few have focused on the political involvement of their authors. Based on data collected through an online survey conducted in April 2008, this paper proposes the first detailed account of the sociopolitical profile of 56 members of the Quebec...

This paper studies the endogenous emergence of political regimes, in particular democracy or oligarchy, in heterogeneous societies in which institutions do not ensure political commitments. Democracy emerges if the ruling coalition that makes political decisions represents the majority of individuals of the population, while oligarchy emerges when the political decisions are made by a minority ...

The result of Indonesian legislative election 2004 is analyzed with certain comparative with the previous one (1999). This analysis is constructed by using the graph theoretical analysis by finding the Euclidean distances among political parties. The distances are then treated in ultrametric spaces by using the minimum spanning tree algorithm. By having the Indonesian hierarchical taxonomy mode...

In this lecture I discuss the development of the social divisions in Western Europe and their translation into politics. I successively take up the three aspects embraced by the notion of ‘cleavages’ – their structural base, the political values of the groups involved, and their political articulation. My main argument is that the decline of traditional cleavages does not necessarily signify th...

jewish identity of israel is one of the major problems in assessing the status of sociology, social policy and political structure. the mainstream zionist discourse suggests that the distinction is one of the essential components of jewish identit. this has led to direct and control the political behavior of the inhabitants of the political structure in order to facilitate the continuation and ...