The Manimegalai epic covers various social politics. politics of the hour are seen in a different light than time. During this period religions and new rulers entered Tamil Nadu created chaotic features politics, morals, monasticism, Buddhist influence rulers. Vedic religion Milky Way, impact Buddhism Cauvery Basin Jainism Madurai region shaped life people. Poompuhar was city historical signifi...

ABSTRACT This article analyzes how niche parties may utilize a strategy of policy shifting to garner additional voters. It leverages unique opportunity in which Costa Rican political party released two different versions its manifesto at moments during single election cycle. rare uncovers the shifted from having hard conservative stance on social issues, such as abortion, moderating and centeri...

D eriving reliable and valid estimates of the policy positions of key actors is fundamental to the analysis of political competition. Various systematic methods have been used to do this, including surveys of voters, politicians, and political scientists, and the content analysis of policy documents. Each method has advantages and disadvantages but, for both theoretical and pragmatic reasons, p...

This article presents a new method of reconstructing actors’ political positions from coded political texts. It is based on a model that combines a dynamic perspective on actors’ political positions with a probabilistic account of how these positions are translated into emphases of policy topics in political texts. In the article it is shown how model parameters can be estimated based on a maxi...