russia is considered the core of the former empire of the ussr. many social and structural features of the soviet :union: could be observed in the development of russia’s political power and strategic attitude. geo-political competitions between russia and the west can be traced back to the 19th century. these competitions were shaped within the framework of the balance of power system in inter...

Abstract What explains the emergence and persistence of institutions aimed at preventing any ruling group from using state apparatus to advance particularistic interests? To answer this recurring question, a burgeoning literature examines establishment power-sharing in societies divided by ethnic or religious cleavages. Going beyond existing scholarly work focused on these specific settings, we...

Explanations of the emergence of regional autonomy movements political organizations seeking to express sub-state affinities and interests often highlight cultural differences and economic incentives as important reasons driving regional elites and local politicians to form such organization and explain the support regional autonomy movements receive. In this paper I employ a specialized agent-...

War-to-peace transitions feature multiple insecurities not directly connected to armed conflict, seen clearly in violence associated with social and political participation by marginalised persons communities. Understanding such requires re-theorisation of the relationship between citizen security. Grounded theory research on sectoral temporal patterns Colombia’s Cesar Department suggests it is...

Most studies of political blogging have focused exclusively on the so-called “A-list” political blogs. While these studies have provided important insights into the content of A-list political blogs (Adamic and Glance, 2005), how A-list political blogs influence media coverage (Drezner and Farrell, 2004) and who A-list political bloggers are (McKenna and Pole, 2004), they have largely ignored t...

When do labor laws protect workers from workplace risks, and when do they serve to institute or insulate the privilege of particular political and economic actors? This paper argues that Latin American labor laws are highly politicized, and have been since their early origins. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the first labor codes were formulated to favor skilled, unionized labor ...

Is the Norwegian welfare state model under pressure? In this article we argue that this model will persist to the extent that there is a relatively strong consensus among the majority of the national elites to support it. The empirical results presented indicate that the majority of the Norwegian elites at the time of the study (2000) supported the basic institutions and policies in the model a...

This paper tries to study the relationship between social trust and social security (Personal, economic, political and societal) among citizens in Kashan. In 2012 through questionnaire move than 362 people at the age of 18  and higher were chosen to answer these questions. The results show that social trust affects on social security it means if we have name trust among people, we will observe...