Why would an authoritarian regime allow citizens to complain publicly if, as is often presumed, exchange of information among citizens invites social instability? This paper studies how an authoritarian regime allows citizens to publicly express preferences to strengthen its rule. We argue that public communication has two functions. First, it disorganizes the citizens or strengthens their disa...

The development of communication technology has penetrated human life. One form is new media (new media) which then gave birth to social media. world politics cannot be separated from the influence and Social are like two sides a coin for political actors. On one hand, success using can enable actors get positive support. But on other failure take advantage risks damaging image he has. This art...

Introduction: Political parties struggle to reconnect Young people by using social networks. Acknowledging that 2020 has been the year of TikTok, most Spanish political have joined this network: Podemos, with 191.400 followers and 3.1 million likes, is followed party on platform. Method: Using multimodal content analysis, paper aims at analyzing how network, for which purposes, placing attentio...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

Agent-based modeling (ABM) has become a promising research approach in the social sciences, including economics and political science. ABM allows researchers to explore what-if questions that are not easily answered in the empirical world. As an attempt to advance cooperation between information professionals and social scientists to explore social inquiries, this paper introduces and details t...

This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well as face-to-face and online political discussion, contributed to political participation during the period leading up to the Iraq War. A Web-based survey of political dissenters (N=307) conducted at the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq provides the data used to examine the relationships among informational media use, o...

The development of information and communication technology as one of the most prominent components of the expansion of social networks has revolutionized the quantity, quality, and speed of information flow unprecedentedly. One of the important consequences of the discourse of globalization of communication is the expansion of virtual participatory politics, the politicization of ethnic, racia...

This paper examines the use of television as a political campaign tool in the 1983-1989 elections in Argentina. Campaigns were conducted against the background of a national television system that was subject to both commercial and political pressures. Initially, politicians’ lack of experience in exploiting the medium led to a scramble for air time right before the election. Within a few years...