scholarly journals Politicians’ Self-Reported Social Media Activities and Perceptions: Results From Four Surveys Among German Parliamentarians

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511983767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Kelm ◽  
Marco Dohle ◽  
Uli Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Over Time

The growing importance of social media in the political arena seems to be in line with the mediatization of politics thesis, which states that mediated communication is becoming more important in politics and increasingly influences political processes. However, how politicians’ social media activities and politicians’ perceptions concerning social media have developed over time has rarely been examined. Moreover, it is unclear how the politicians’ activities and perceptions are related to each other. Referring to theoretical approaches, such as the influence of presumed influence approach, four surveys were conducted among German parliamentarians (MPs) between 2012 and 2016 ( n = 194/149/170/118). The results indicate that the MPs’ self-reported social media activities and perceptions have remained remarkably constant since 2012. Regression analyses indicate that MPs’ self-reported social media activities and perceptions are hardly related to each other. This raises the question whether mediatization processes are indeed driven by politicians’ perceptions about media influences.

6. The European Parliament:

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-148
Author(s):  
Ariadna Ripoll Servent ◽  
Olivier Costa
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Democratic Quality ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Over Time

The European Parliament (EP) symbolizes many of the struggles that characterize the process of European integration and is at the core of many theoretical and empirical debates about representation, accountability, and legitimacy. This chapter draws on a variety of theoretical approaches to explain the complex role the EP plays in the political system of the European Union (EU). It starts with a brief overview of the history and functions of the assembly, followed by a theoretical explanation of its empowerment over time. Then, it determines the extent to which the EP is capable of influencing policymaking, both in legislative and non-legislative domains, as well as for the appointment of the Commission. It presents the political structure of the assembly and underlines the role of parliamentary groups and committees. It discusses the representativeness of the EP and the democratic quality of its internal functioning. Finally, it addresses current and future challenges for the EP.

Russian information troops, disinformation, and democracy

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Lysenko ◽  
Catherine Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Related Activity ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time

This research examines the contemporary landscape relative to information-driven strategies used for global gain by analyzing Russian activities in particular. With Russia functioning as a cause of global democratic disruption, this exploratory project focuses on information-based, computational, and media-related political strategies. The findings provide a way to see patterns over time offering further evidence of ‘hybrid’ warfare identified in recent literature. This work allows readers to connect events in recent years in order to view them together as a strong case of ‘hybrid’ war. These findings also provide scholars, practitioners, and citizens interested in democratic processes around the globe the opportunity to consider the many threats to contemporary political processes, and contributes to ongoing academic conversations about digital political disruptions and warfare. Particularly for readers concerned about political influence via social media and digital security, this study of Russia’s information-related activity as a case of international interference will be of particular interest. 

scholarly journals Explaining the moderate platform of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood: Against the inclusion-moderation hypothesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hanlie Booysen
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Primary Driver ◽  
Political Objective ◽  
Moderate Policy ◽  
Parliamentary Politics ◽  
Over Time

<p>Throughout its existence, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB) has consistently maintained a moderate policy on governance. The main aim of this study is to explain this moderation. Previous literature has usually explained moderation in similar movements by an “inclusion-moderation hypothesis”, which holds that moderation results when movements have the opportunity to participate in pluralist political processes. However, the SMB has been progressively excluded from the Syrian political arena since 1963. The inclusion-moderation hypothesis implies, as its converse, that exclusion leads to radicalisation. This study shows that contrary to this expectation, the SMB’s ultimate exclusion from the Syrian political arena in 1982 was in fact the primary driver of its moderate policy. The SMB also participated in parliamentary politics in its early history, and therefore has not moderated over time, as the inclusion-moderation hypothesis would require. Thus, the inclusion-moderation hypothesis does not work for this case, and this dissertation advances an alternate explanation for the SMB’s continued commitment to a moderate policy on governance.  This study’s central thesis is that the SMB’s moderate policy on governance can be explained by the Brotherhood’s primary target audience, that is to say, the political force which, in the SMB’s view, can deliver its political objective. As this definition implies, the target audience shifts over time, in accordance with changing circumstances. In 1980, the primary target audience comprised diverse actors in opposition to the al-Asad government: the Fighting Vanguard, the Syrian ulama, and the secularist opposition. In 2001, the audience was the Bashar al-Asad government. In 2004, it was the secularist opposition; and in 2012, it was the foreign sponsors of the secularist opposition.</p>

scholarly journals Negative e-WOM Resulting from Political Posts on Social Media: A Case Study of a Small Retailer’s Struggle over Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
Jennifer Johnson Jorgensen ◽  
Katelyn Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Retail Store ◽  
The Political ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
Over Time

Consumers have been advocating for a variety of causes, and in turn, retailers are expressing their political opinions through social-media posts in hopes of aligning with their customers’ views. This study looks at a single case in which customers reacted to a retailer’s political opinion posted on a social media account. Data was collected at the time of the retailer’s political post and up to three years afterward. Content analysis was employed to identify themes from the customer reviews posted, and four themes were identified. Of significance, this study found that customers of a retail store typically merge feelings on the retailer’s product and political post or the retailer’s service and the political post within their social media responses. Thus, a majority of customers in this case were not exclusively focused on battling the political post on social media. Also, a shift in customers’ opinions of the retailer shifted positively over time.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Political Culture

wisdom ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Emil Ordukhanyan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

In modern world various transformations have an impact on social and political processes of the society. Even cultural changes somehow depend on these transformations. Therefore, social and political phenomena need new approaches for their study, where the political culture has its proper relevance. The article explores the theoretical and methodological foundations of political culture based on the analysis of foreign and Armenian scholars works. The behavioral, psychological, comparative and other approaches as well as methods of political culture analysis are examined. In a result of generalization of theoretical approaches and summarizing the outcomes obtained from a comparative analysis of political culture methodologies, we can define political culture as the aggregate of political ideas, knowledge, traditions and values; as a whole of political participation and behavior models; as a relatively stable link between political consciousness and socialization, between stages and levels of political communication tools and political institutions, which defines the political process and which is expressed through the political discourse.

RESEARCH OF PROTEST ACTIVITY OF THE POPULATION IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-251
Author(s):  
K.N. Otebay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Domestic Science ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Political Management ◽  
Public Reaction ◽  
Protest Activity

Organized protest actions of citizens have an increasing impact on the socio-political processes in Kazakhstan and Europe. The modern protest takes on new forms, and the opening technical opportunities are used to mobilize participants. In such conditions, the assessment of the protest potential, the identification of «points of instability» and the understanding of the possible negative public reaction to the decisions of the political elite become important tasks of modern political management. The article considers the main theoretical approaches to the study of protest behavior in foreign sociology.

Legitimate and Illegitimate Political Self-entrenchment and Its Impact on Political Equality

ICL Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Kouroutakis
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Constitutional System

Abstract Self-serving politicians and self-entrenchment of the political establishment is a diachronic problem tantalizing liberal democracies. Incumbent political actors around the world constantly purport to entrench not only their presence in the political arena, but also their power and as a result, barriers to entry to new political actors are set, the chain of the democratic choice is disrupted and equality of opportunity is distorted. This article focuses on the available means in the constitutional system in order to safeguard a level playing field in the political arena. To this end, this article has three scientific objectives. First, it elaborates on the significance of equality of opportunities in the political system. Second, it identifies how political self-entrenchment creates an uneven playing field. Third, it focuses on the remedies that exist in the constitutional system and examines both legal and quasi legal mechanisms. With an analysis on the current means that are available in the constitutional system, the judicial review, and the alternative political processes based on independent bodies and quasi-judicial mechanisms, this article concludes that self-entrenchment and self-serving politicians are mainly left to be resolved by political means, the so called self-corrective promise of politics.

CSR as a Political Arena: The Struggle for a European Framework

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Ungericht ◽  
Christian Hirt
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Striking Fact ◽  
Eu Commission

This contribution is a reaction to the striking fact that the political aspect of CSR has remained largely hidden in most of the scientific and practice-oriented management literature. This work intends to illuminate the political dimension of CSR in that the changing stance of the European Commission toward CSR between 2001 and 2006 is analyzed and interpreted as a result of political processes within an “issue arena”. For this case study written documents from the most important actors are used (EU Commission, EU Parliament, the Council, advocacy groups and lobbies for industry and civil society CSR platforms) as well as interviews with high ranking representatives of these institutions (conducted in the spring of 2008).

scholarly journals Tinjauan Buku: Allah Mengizinkan Manusia Mengalami Diri-Nya, Pengalaman dengan Allah dalam Konteks yang Berpancasila

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-150
Author(s):  
Arthur Aritonang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Biblical Principles ◽  
Theology Students

This book is a compilation of writings from Andreas A. Yewangoe, especially in 2017 which was delivered by Yewangoe on various occasions. Yewangoe covers these themes under a big umbrella: “God Permits Humans to Experience Himself. In the first part Yewangoe discusses about dogmatics. Meanwhile, in the second part, Yewangoe discusses religion and society. For readers, this book is an important book to read for both theology students and church members. Yewangoe in this book wants to invite every reader to understand the biblical principles regarding the role of church members in the political arena, the importance of peace efforts among religious adherents in Indonesia, the importance of literacy education in order to raise awareness to be wiser and more responsible in using social media so as to avoid influence. ideologies that are opposite to Pancasila, calls for anarchist demonstrations, or access to information that will arouse terrorist cells in Indonesia, the importance of reading and reflecting on Indonesian history so that we appreciate the struggles of our predecessors even more. And finally, the importance of maintaining Pancasila as the basis of the state as a common home for a pluralistic Indonesia.

scholarly journals Relationalist View on the Dissolution of Former Yugoslavia and Emergent New States

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p35
Author(s):  
Igor Janev
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
New States ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
International Interactions

Times After a logic-based foundation of Dialectic Relationism, as a holistic doctrine and a comprehensive systemic-dialectic methodology, in which the relations between the elements (units) constituting a system play the dominant role in its behavior, and even determine the very existence of the elements (units), we demonstrate its applicability to the political arena of international interactions of states and, in particular, to the dissolution of complex state entities and the emergence of new states. Then, we examine in more detail the processes leading to the dissolution of Former Yugoslavia and the emergence of new states following its break up. We elucidate the role of both internal and external factors in the dissolussion process and the role of international relations and environment in the political recognition of the new states. This Relationism concept provides a general framework for description and understanding of socio-political processes and regimes in individual states and international system as a whole.

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