Text data has recently been used as evidence in estimating the political ideologies of individuals, including political elites and social media users. While inferences about people are often the intrinsic quantity of interest, we draw inspiration from open information extraction to identify a new task: inferring the political import of propositions like OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST. We present several ...

Because of their ever-growing importance, elite actors from the political sphere and news media have integrated social network sites and especially Twitter into their communication strategies. However, the extent of these adaptation processes is not yet fully understood. This article presents lists of U.S. actors from politics, news media and government. As an exploratory analysis, the influenc...

The paper provides a political economy theory of the Kuznets curve. When development leads to increasing inequality, this can induce political instability and force democratization on political elites. Democratization leads to institutional changes which encourage redistribution and reduce inequality. Nevertheless, development does not necessarily induce a Kuznets curve, and it is shown that de...

Contra the often-held assumption that Islamist danger has been at forefront of Moscow’s security agenda since Soviet–Afghan War, this article shows how different Russian decision-makers held views Islamism during Tajik Civil War (1992–97). It argues relations to Soviet past, especially explain differences in assessing Tajikistan between agencies and political elites. Unlike reformers Kremlin, l...

Global public health is intimately linked with political, economic and social determinants. The current global order has been built on the assumption that the globalisation agenda shared by political elites of the last several decades will continue. Individuals, businesses and countries have all made decisions, many of them linked to health, based on this assumption. The election of Donald Trum...

The political participation of immigrants is an important gauge of their integration into thereceiving society more generally, as well as an indicator of the degree of openness of politicalelites towards ethnic minorities. With the restructuring of State intervention and the diffusion ofcivic culture, the role that immigrant associations play in shaping urban social policies has...

La sociología de Pareto es inseparable de su perspectiva económica, en especial su célebre teoría de las élites. Su teoría de los mercados monopólicos requiere factores extra-económicos, por lo tanto, construyó una teoría sociológica de las élites. Aquí se demuestra que su teoría sociológica general de las élites es vacua, ya que la clase de las elites es co-extensiva respecto de la población t...

background: in recent years, the concept of health security has received an international dimension. however, despite evident links between health and security the concept of health security is not used in either academic or political discourse in serbia. it comes as no surprise then that even though the issue of security challenges is present in serbian legislation, it has not been incorporate...