This research is an integration of previous work on political activity and examines a variety of factors thought to be influential in the performance and nonperformance of political behavior. The political participation of a randomly selected sample of local citizens was studied using survey research methods. One hundred and twenty-six individuals responded to survey items assessing participati...

Using a unique database on social movement boycotts of corporations, we examine how firms alter their political activities in the wake of a reputational threat. We show that boycotts lead to significant reductions in the amount of targets’ political action committee campaign contributions and simultaneous increases in targets’ CEOs’ personal campaign contributions, as well as targets’ lobbying ...

this research focuses on the role of the environmental nongovernmental organizations in iran and also the evaluation of their performance in achieving public participation to protect environment. findings of this research .reveal that so far these organizations have lacked the ability to prepare the context for people involvement in environmental conservation, which is due to several major cons...

Research into political engagement is currently divided into two literatures: research on “conventional” and “unconventional” participation (Milbrath, 1965; McFarland and Thomas, 1996; Goldstone, 2003; Heaney and Rohas, 2006). Downward trends in “conventional” political engagement have been attributed to staff-run advocacy organizations that encourage members to contribute money but not engage ...

globalization, as the most important change at recent age, depends on developing of science, technology and information. it has several effects on aspects of human activities such as social and political studies and changing ideas. moreover, power, the central concept in politics, has confronted different approaches. so, any subject, e.g. political development, needs re-definition and re-explan...

Mentions of politicians in news articles can reflect politician interactions on their daily activities. In this work, we present a mathematical model to represent such interactions as a graph, and we use it to predict the political affiliation for a list of deputies of the Republic of Ireland. Our results show that there is a relation between political affiliations and mentions in news reports.

Guest editors’ note: In order to gain the necessary political and public support, geoparks have to demonstrate how they contribute to the socioeconomic development of their particular region. In addition to the other important tasks of nature protection, conservation of geologic heritage, and promotion of tourism, education, and research, geoparks have to evaluate the regional economic effects ...

We start from the observation that the vagueness between legality and criminality is to a large extent supported by the fact that national regulators use other standards concerning which activities they can and want to consider as legal and/or criminal. Also within official regulatory measures, a grey zone can be observed between the governmental capacity to regulate certain activities, and the...

Baumol's [Baumol, W.J., 1990. Entrepreneurship: productive, unproductive and destructive. Journal of Political Economy 98 (5), 893–921] theory of productive and unproductive entrepreneurship is a significant recent contribution to the economics of entrepreneurship literature. He hypothesizes that entrepreneurial individuals channel their effort in different directions depending on the quality o...

Social networks are nowadays an influential tool in the hands of the centres of political power because of their possibilities for direct and two-way communication with citizens in real time, dissemination of information, or a self-promotion and marketing. The use of social networks in the political context has become extremely important in the analysis and prediction of elections and generally...