Social media may liberate citizens in societies with stringent media controls and accelerate political democratization. Yet, little is known about the relation between social media use and perceived constraints in a semi-authoritarian system. This study draws on Media System Dependency theory to examine this relation in the context of the 2011 Singapore General Election. Our findings, based on ...

Two experiments examined the typicality structure of contrasting political categories. In Experiment 1, two separate groups of participants rated the typicality of 15 individuals, including political figures and media personalities, with respect to the categories Democrat or Republican. The relation between the two sets of ratings was negative, linear, and extremely strong, r = -.9957. Essentia...

This paper provides evidence concerning political participation (turnout, awareness, attendance at meetings, campaign involvement, voting) and its relation to local governance (targeting of public services) in a developing country, based on a rural household survey in West Bengal, India. With the exception of education and immigrant status, we find that reported participation rates varied remar...

today, on the one hand, the challenge of politicians shows their own distinctive face in order to outpace rivals; and on the other hand, for making an effort to attract maximum participation of people in the election, it has made the political marketing significantly more than ever. in this paper, the research method consists of descriptive-correlative performed by survey, which is intended to ...

Debates over wolf policy are driven by an underlying attitudinal divide between people from urban and rural areas. This study explores how the power relationship between urban and rural groups interact with individual attitude formation in relation to wolf policy, in order to understand why dissatisfaction with wolf policy tends to result in group level conflict patterns. Using Swedish survey d...

socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

Our paper investigates the intertwined relation among transparency, civic capital and political accountability in a large sample of Italian municipalities using new indicator institutional transparency. Firstly, we test hypothesis that affects transparency public administrations; secondly, verify whether where is high, citizens’ attention toward government also making it politically unfeasible ...

abstract the expansion of financ system expanding in a country is one of the main determinant factors of foreign investment. flow and the system is affected by essential factors such as political constancy. political risks of each country is evaluated by political system figuration, its constancy, policies constancy and regular rules existence for political competition. this constancy is the mo...

This paper presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy model. We use the model to derive the political optimum and to analyze different factors that have an influence on this political equilibrium. The paper discusses how the level of development influences the political equilibrium. We also analyze the relation between trade and the political equilibrium and compa...