food security remains a major challenge for most rural households in kenya especially those in arid and semi arid areas. women play a crucial role as primary food producers and custodians of household food security. they however face many constraints in their endeavor to secure food for their households. women, lack access to extension education, land and credit and these challenges are exacerb...

this study aims to have a sociological explanation of the different forms of participation among khalkhal citizens and the factors affecting it. in this study, the important issue is attention to dimensions of participation. the theoretical framework and model were presented by using the theory of talcott parsons, lipset, habermas, de tocqueville, lerner, and rostow. this research was a survey ...

We present a model of participation in large elections in which the formation of voter groups is endogenous. Partisan citizens decide whether to become leaders (activists) and try to persuade impressionable citizens to vote for the leaders’ preferred party. In the (unique) pure strategy equilibrium, the number of leaders favoring each party depends on the cost of activism and the importance of ...