Protest “Bitnish”: Political Communication Through Banners at Student Protests in Serbia (2024/2025)
Etnoantropološki ProblemiThis introductory paper focuses on protest banners, interpreted as a form of protest bitnish—a coined expression combining the notions of significance (bitan) and triviality (sitniš).
Vladimira Ilić
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition [PDF]
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings.
Rincke, Johannes +2 more
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The Commitment of Senior Civil Servants to Democratic Freedoms and Equality
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2012 In modern democracies, senior civil servants have outgrown their classic role of mere implementers of orders given by politicians. Both senior civil servants and politicians serve the same democratic state, and both are heirs to the democratic evolution.
Miro HACEK
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Chinese Funding: A Curse to Africa
African Journal of Political ScienceThe role of China in the liberation of Africa from colonial rule cannot be down played as I laid a foundation to Africa today. Most African countries were aided by China militarily and ideologically in the fight against Western colonial rule.
Chido T Chipfakacha
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Politicians’ Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition [PDF]
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians’ incentives
Klaas J. Beniers, Robert Dur
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The Power of the Camera-Presenting Politicians. A study in the rhetoric of camera techniques
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2019 The aim of this paper is to contribute to a critical phenomenological and rhetorical discussion of how politicians appear to the general public in today’s visual digital media.
Henrik Juel
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Facing up to Facebook: politicians, publics and the social media(ted) turn in New Zealand [PDF]
, 2015 Social media have an increasingly important place in the lives of citizens, and their potential to expand the reach of communication messages beyond individual networks is attractive to those looking to maximise message efficiency.
Fountaine, Susan +2 more
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Deliberative Political Leaders: The Role of Policy Input in Political Leadership
Politics and Governance, 2016 This article provides a fresh perspective on political leadership by demonstrating that government ministers take a deliberative approach to decision making.
Jennifer Lees-Marshment
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Opportunist politicians and the evolution ofelectoral competition [PDF]
We study a unidimensional model of spatial competition between two parties with two types of politicians. The office oriented politicians, referred to as “opportunist” politicians, care only about the spoils of the office. The policy oriented politicians,
Jean-Francois Laslier, Bilge Ozturck
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The quality of politicians – differences between career politicians and career changers
, 2021 Politicians – and in particular career politicians - have a reputation for being distant from voters and not acting in their interests, meaning that voters mistrust them (Kaina, 2008b; Newton, Stolle, & Zmerli, 2018).
Nathalie Giger, Stefanie Bailer
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