Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

Regressions with multiplicative interaction terms are widely used in the social sciences to test whether the relationship between an outcome and an independent variable changes depending on a moderator. Despite much advice on how to use interaction models, two important problems are currently overlooked in empirical practice. First, multiplicative interaction models are based on the crucial ass...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...