The current discussion among journalists and scholars in media research and peace studies focuses on the question of how the media can become vehicles for conf1ict prevention and constructive, nonviolent conflict transformation. This proposal of critical peace journalism as an alternative to traditional war reporting is not suggesting that violence should not be reported or that what is reporte...

There is growing interest worldwide concerning new communication technologies and the electoral process. Studies of online elections have yielded a sizeable body of knowledge on the strategies of electoral actors in an increasing range of countries. Although in the US data are routinely gathered regarding citizens’ use of the Internet as a source of electoral information, limited cross-sectiona...

In this paper, with point of departure in theories on generic fascism and critical gender history, I analyse gendered visions in fascist propaganda produced by the National Socialist Labour Party (NSLP), an interwar Swedish party. The presented results are part of my forthcoming thesis, aiming at investigating how the NSLP legitimated and made fascism intelligible in a Swedish context. Even if ...

The conventional wisdom in political science is that legislators’ electioneering practices are closely linked to the electoral systems in which they compete.1 Since electoral concerns are argued to shape legislators’ representation and policy decisions, understanding how electoral incentives differ across electoral systems is useful for explaining cross-national differences representation and p...

eResearch is a concept or word which has come into vogue in academic research circles since 2000. Fundamentally, it is collaborative and interactive research made possible by the Internet and data and computational grids. But like any other new concept, it can and has been abused and misused by people keen to “jump on the bandwagon”. eResearch presents many challenges, both technical and organi...

Information may be transmitted directly from a sender to a receiver, or indirectly through intermediaries. How do intermediaries affect the reporting truthfulness of an informed sender? When does he prefer using intermediaries? In this model, an objective sender or intermediary passes on information truthfully, while a biased one wants to push a particular agenda but also has reputational conce...

Authenticity is a popular buzz word in electoral politics, as electoral candidates and politicians are expected to be authentic in their public interactions. Since 2008, social media has become an integral part of elections in the US, and continues to gain importance in electoral campaigns around the world as social media offers electoral candidates a new medium for communicating with their con...

Truby King's theory is that the vast majority of full term babies are born healthy and that they become weakly and unhealthy largely owing to the well-meaning but misguided efforts of the parents and attendants. His great success in reducing infantile mortality in New Zealand to the lowest in the world proves the truth of his hypothesis. Curiously enough he has written nothing for the professio...