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Social capital and the networked public sphere: Implications for political social media sites
2012
Submitted version of a paper from the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS), 2012. Published version available from IEEE: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2012.535 This paper presents a theoretical lens for research on social media use in eParticipation, along with an example case study. The idea of the public sphere and how it can be applied to eParticipation research is presented. The public sphere is discussed in relation to Castell's notion of the network society as the "networked public sphere", and social capital is introduced as a possible explanation for why some people choose to participate while others refrain from doing so. An example case is presented and…
Borders – transborders – no borders: Problematizing the “figure of the migrant”
2015
In the social sciences, in social work theory and practice, in politics, and in everyday life, the “migrant” is the subject of much investigation: who is s/he? How many of them are there? Where do ...
Attempts at diversification: Mexico and Pacific Asia
2002
This article aims to explain the development of Mexico's relations with Pacific Asia. Based on the historical background of Mexico's relations with Asia and on internal and international transformations, we identify the interests of Mexican political actors in Pacific Asia. We provide an overview of the existing political and economic relations between Mexico and Pacific Asia, demonstrating that the success of diversification has been very limited. By trying to explain the gap between the strategic goals and the existing relations we focus on the domestic politics in Mexico. We conclude that intra-elite conflicts had a negative effect on the diversification attempts, since those conflicts p…
Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
2005
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles play a legitimating and innovating role in politics. A tacit implication of the thesis is that we should not only read theorists as politicians but also read politicians as theorists. The politician possesses a special competence in discerning betwe…
Reexaminando la migración a partir del Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano 2009 / Migration Revisited: the 2009 Human Development Report
2013
Since the 1970s, the link between migration and development has been identifi ed as a major topic of political and scientifi c debate. As a sign of a renewed interest in the issue, in 2009 the United Nations Development Programme published its Human Development Report (HDR) with the title «Overcoming Barriers: mobility and human development». Some of the data in the HDR are reviewed in this paper in order to question certain cliches regarding the relationships between international migration fl ows and development processes. Our main conclusion is that the link between the two is not one-directional, nor does it follow generalisable patterns beyond the confi rmation that the countries with …
Book Review: Counterfeit Politics, Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
2014
Exit politics, enter politicization
2018
Allern, Sigurd and Pollack, Ester (Eds.) (2012). Scandalous! The Mediated Construction of Political Scandals in Four Nordic Countries.
2013
The Palgrave international handbook of football and politics
2019
The Palgrave Handbook is so far the most extensive effort to write a comparative political science of football. A programmatic introduction is followed by case studies on the history and politics o...