I provide an account of the psychological elements that combine within an actor, motivating them to vote. Political scientists have written extensively on the topic of turnout, however, no one has attempted to explain turnout based primarily on political culture. Political culture has improved our understanding of states, parties, and elections alike. This thesis uses a political culture ordina...

This paper explores the importance of incorporating the socioecological realities of alternative networks into analyses of rural development. Cultural theory is examined, which provides a base upon which rural development can identify difference in worldviews based on difference in sociological conditions and environmental phenomena. Actor-oriented theory problematizes the ideal types of cultur...

Introduction Generating country-level political commitment will be critical to driving forward action throughout the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025). In this review of the empirical nutrition policy literature, we ask: what factors generate, sustain and constrain political commitment for nutrition, how and under what circumstances? Our aim is to inform strategic 'commit...

We present an approach using conditional random fields (CRFs) for extracting and coding political events from newswire stories. Coding an event from a news story requires the extraction of the actor and target, the event itself, and the date of occurrence. Actors and targets are political entities. Events are classified into 22 discrete categories in the popular WEIS scheme (Tomlinson 1993). Le...

an essential issue from the very outset of the field of public administration was to find proper limits of bureaucrats authorities in a democratic state .contemporary research on the issue lead to emergent of two set of theories. the first is theories of political control of bureaucracy and the second is theories of bureaucratic politics. the research is against theoretical efforts and is consi...

Social media is increasingly important for political and social activism in Mexico. In particular, Twitter has played a significant role in influencing government decision making and shaping the relationships between governments, citizens, politicians, and other stakeholders. Within the last few months, some commentators even argue that Mexican politics has a new influential actor: “I’m Number ...