The subject matter of this paper is an investigation of factors affecting the women s' presence in politics (aged 20-40 years) in 2015 (Case study: City of Sanandaj). Political participation is regarded as one of the major development indices. If the political development is considered as meaning "expansion of participation and competition of social groups in the political life", one of its pre...

Europeans’ confidence in political institutions has dropped precipitously since the onset of the Euro-crisis in 2009. The decline in trust in government varies across countries and occupational and educational groups. Economic factors explain much of the cross-national and over-time variation. The baseline level of trust is influenced by a person’s position in the labor market: across European ...

Modern political life is heavily dependent and influenced by claims about facts made about participants in a Political System (seen here as sets of agents and organizations that govern a society). Such claims are commonly found in news stories, tweets, and social media postings, and, depending on each user, they may be considered “true” or “false”. The decision to act based on a fact contained ...

Vaccines--often lauded as one of the greatest public health interventions--are losing public confidence. Some vaccine experts have referred to this decline in confidence as a crisis. We discuss some of the characteristics of the changing global environment that are contributing to increased public questioning of vaccines, and outline some of the specific determinants of public trust. Public dec...

Surveys concerning environmental and health risks point out the lack of trust of citizens in risk evaluations provided by governments. The aim of this paper is to take into account the impact of this potential distrust on political decisions concerning risk reduction. We prove that lack of trust reduces the attractiveness of risk reduction measures. When heterogeneity in risk exposure and the p...

This article argues that political stakeholders in national and international political arenas, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and firms in particular, are increasingly investing in 'Public-Attention-Seeking' activities in order to maintain access to scarce public resources in politics. The principal goal of 'Public-Attention-Seeking' is to win the public's favor and trust. As a cons...

fortcoming. Multikulturelle Demokratien im Vergleich. Opladen. 2 Department of Political Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Oude Zijds Achterburgwal 237. Email: [email protected] 3 We would like to thank the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS) that gave us a chance to finish this paper as part of a joint research plan that will hopefully...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the institutional economics of co-operation and the political economy of trust. It is reviewed the transactions costs, the principal-agent theory, market power, increasing-returns theory and value creation, strategic management, competitive forces, resource-based theory, organizational knowledge and learning, strategic choice theory and the collective efficie...

‘Trust in government has been identified as one of the most important foundations upon which the legitimacy and sustainability of political systems are built. Trust is essential for social cohesion and well-being as it affects governments’ ability to govern and enables them to act without having to resort to coercion. Consequently, it is an efficient means of lowering transaction costs in any s...