This thesis departs from the assumption that the poor in Argentina are faced with specific difficulties due to structures in the surrounding environment. By examining the Argentinean piquetero movement surging in the backwater of the nation’s economic depression of the 1990’s, we describe how contextual factors influence the emergence and mobilization of protest among people with scarce economi...

Web sites of Slovenian political parties do not fully exploit the Internet’s potential for interactive and deliberative communication on political issues with citizens, because they favour a competitive-elitist perception of democracy. As result, political party’s web sites are mainly used for political mobilization, agitation in persuasion. Supporting this model of democracy via web pages enab...