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Rola tradycji konfucjańskich w umacnianiu współczesnego reżimu politycznego Koreańskiej Republiki Ludowo-Demokratycznej

2019

The role of Confucian traditions in strengthening the contemporary political regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea In Asian countries authoritarian relationships have been noticeable for centuries not only on political but also on social grounds.The teachings of Confucius were important in this aspect. According to many au­thors, they still exert a significant influence in North Korea and have an impact on the durability of Kim Jong-un. However, there are also opinions that it is a big mistake to describe this country as Confucian. For this reason the aim of this article is to show the real meaning of this ideology in North Korea. This will be done by demonstrating similaritie…

What Drives Selective Exposure to Political Information in Spain?

2022

Communication research underlines two types of selective exposure to the media: one guided by ideological-partisan affiliations and one guided by interest in politics. This work will compare both motivations in the consumption of political information through three media types (digital press, television, and radio) by Spanish citizens during the 2019 November General Election. Through multinomial logistic regressions applied to a representative post-electoral survey, results show that ideological-partisan orientations are the most important variables governing selective exposure, especially for the digital press and the radio. Besides confirming ideological selective exposure, the data high…

Fitness: The New Black or Even a Religion?

2020

This book has outlined the significance of the fitness industry in fifteen European countries, including Flanders in Belgium and England in the United Kingdom. All of these countries and regions follow nowadays the basic principles of the liberal market economy, where the legal and political restrictions for the sport business industry to emerge, develop and grow are minimal. However, as history has shown, in many of the European countries, sport and physical culture have developed around the idea of voluntarism and amateurism during the last ca 100 years.

Latvia: Political Developments and Data in 2020

2021

Latvia: Political development and data for 2017

2018

Does the nuclear family affect social trust? Longitudinal evidence from Germany

2021

While research indicates that social trust might benefit societies’ political and economic development, the sources of social trust are subject to debate. This article investigates a less investiga...

Always in crisis, always a solution?

2021

La marginalidad electoral y política de la extrema derecha valenciana (2003-2015)

2017

El partido político España 2000 se auto define como “social patriota” y “anti inmigración” y en su discurso se aprecian elementos de formaciones neo populistas europeas que han obtenido importantes resultados electorales en la última década. Sin embargo, España 2000, tras más de diez años de historia, no ha conseguido el éxito de sus homólogos europeos. Por ello, el texto trata de ofrecer las claves que han favorecido su emergencia y moderado crecimiento en esta región española a través de una metodología cuantitativa y la técnica de inferencia ecológica y a partir de sus datos electorales. El resultado muestra el posible origen de su electorado y las características sociodemográficas de su…

Elected and Unelected Institutions

2015

Having broken away from the Soviet Union, the Baltic states rapidly moved towards new constitutional orders more in line with the demands of the new democratic and market-economy framework that they were committed to building. The aim was to construct the major elected and unelected political institutions that would allow them to join the principal European organisations and usher in an era of boring normality. From what was a similar starting point, the Baltic states chose very different constitutional frameworks (although the demands of integration with the Western world has led to some institutional convergence). Nevertheless all three have largely achieved their ambition of making polit…

The Digitalisation of Political Parties in Comparative Perspective

2021

This chapter outlines the main findings of the edited book. Through the study of a wide range of political parties from Europe and beyond, this book has explored the different degrees of digitalisation that political parties present, and, at the same time, discussed the main technological, democratic issues and trade-offs that political parties have faced in their digital transition. The most relevant finding is that all political parties operating in the democracies analysed have digitalised their organisations to some extent. Our main finding across several cases shows that the digitalisation of parties does not entail a homogenous process of convergence towards a new mode of managing par…