Social media are used by an increasing number of political actors. A small subset of these is interested in pursuing extremist motives such as mobilization, recruiting or radicalization activities. In order to counteract these trends, online providers and state institutions reinforce their monitoring efforts, mostly relying on manual workflows. We propose a machine learning approach to support ...

This study analyzed inter-sectoral activities between the health and education sectors in implementing the Health in Schools program in a city within a metropolitan region in northeast Brazil. Analysis of the political-management process looked at the following dimensions: professional practices and subject understanding of intersectorality. The results show that subjects define intersectoralit...

Recent analyses of the cultural dimensions of protest have gone some distance in correcting the structuralist and instrumentalist biases of early resource mobilization and political process models. They remain limited, however, by their retention of dichotomous conceptions of culture and structure in the emergence of protest, of cultural and instrumental orientations in ongoing collective actio...

It is now commonplace to see the Web as a platform that can harness the collective abilities of large numbers of people to accomplish tasks with unprecedented speed, accuracy and scale [10]. To push this idea to its limit, DARPA launched its Network Challenge, which aimed to “explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urge...

can sustain activist involvement over time. Do the reduced costs of e-activism help cultivate decentralized social movement leadership? This is a well-researched and important study that draws from a nuanced understanding of the social movement literature, and it raises some important questions about how technological change affects our basic assumptions and concepts. For instance, the authors ...

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...

There is a long-standing debate over the impact of coups on democratization. Some argue that can help promote transitions to democratic rule. Yet, others contend often spur increased repression and autocratization, undermining hopes reform. We both autocratic changes are more likely after coup popular mobilization plays crucial role in shaping post-coup trajectory. Democratization when occur pr...

It has been more than five decades since Ted Robert Gurr asked the question, “Why Men Rebel” (1970), in most popular scholarly work of political rebellion and protest. The subsequent research often focused on grievances as main motivation behind collective mobilization (Collier Hoeffler 1998; Fearon Laitin 2003). Yet questions how why lead to group violent or nonviolent conflict onset still att...

The main task of authoritarian elections is to guarantee the survival regime. Achieving this goal, rulers rely on electoral mobilization that employed by political machines, targeted mostly poor and dependent voters. At same time, since autocracies permit opposition parties, those voters, who avoid mobilization, are able make a choice between government opposition. If they dissatisfied their pe...