We study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favourable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a voting process that can lead to different degrees of autonomy. If this process fails then both regions engage in a costly political conflict which can only lead to the maintenance of the initial subordi...

Little research is done on how socio-political factors intertwine with method implementation. This paper is a follow up of a reported PD method implementation failure four years ago. For branch related reasons, the implementation fell short. This article tells the story of what happened then. To our surprise, the original reason for introducing the PD method called Personas had disappeared duri...

Yeniden Millî Mücadele Hareketi ço?unlu?unu bekâr ö?rencilerin olu?turdu?u, kitlesellik yönü zay?f ancak yay?nc?l?k faaliyetleri gittikçe geli?en sa? e?ilimli bir te?kilatt?r. Birli?i Derne?i ad?yla 18 Kas?m 1967 tarihinde dernek statüsünde kurulan te?kilat?n mensuplar? ise milliyetçi ve muhafazakâr gençlerdir. Te?kilat?n güç kazanmas? Türk siyasi hayat?n?n karma??k dönemlerinden 12 Mart 1971 m...

This research examines how activists mobilise against fake hate profiles on Facebook. Based on six months of participant observation, the article demonstrates how Danish Facebook users organised to combat fictitious Muslim profiles that spurred hatred against ethnic minorities. The article concludes that crowdsourced action by Facebook users is insufficient as a form of sustainable resistance a...

Organizations aiming to foster civic engagement, such as government bodies, news outlets, political parties, and NGOs, struggle to purposefully use social media to engage young people. To respond to this challenge we conducted five group-interviews with 27 youth, 16–26 years, about their experiences of and barriers to civic engagement in social media. Our paper contributes to identifying specif...

This study draw on the struggle of parents of children with mucopolysacchar idosis to access expensive drugs in the name of universal right to health. The work explores how, in Brazil, right-to-health litigation became an alternative pathway to access health care and shows that several public and private stakeholders dispute the judicialization of health. Biotechnology is, therefore, understood...

Many countries have had, at some point in their history, watershed moments when the opportunity seems to arise to wipe the slate clean and make a new beginning. Such moments often arise after wars or after revolutions or some other political upheaval which lead to a regime change, and the chance to start afresh. Typically at such times, new policies are introduced which seek to bring about poli...

The wave of popular uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in late 2010 brought together a number of societal actors that have since pushed for a significant transformation of their countries. Civil society movements have been at the forefront of this change. However, they currently struggle to define their role and face many obstacles. This Issue Brief explores th...