Political Competition Research Articles

Engaging With Fandom and Politics: The Case of Giuseppe Conte’s Fans on Instagram

The article focuses on the phenomenon of political fandom and its potential impact on citizens’ political engagement. In particular, our research intends to offer a contribution to the discussion of possible types of online fan-like attachment to a political leader. Our case study is the Instagram account @lebimbedigiuseppeconte, a fanpage celebrating the former Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte. We analyzed posts between 2018 and 2022 with the aim of investigating the evolution of the account following the change of Conte’s role from the office of Prime Minister—that he held as an outsider—to the more politicized role of leader of the Five-Star Movement. Our results suggest that, although in the first phase @lebimbedigiuseppeconte could not be regarded as a standard type of political fandom, its evolution shows that also a fanpage born with no apparent political goal and a vocation for entertaining may become a platform for the diffusion of political contents.

Does centralization of online content regulation affect political hate speech in a country? A public choice perspective

This study primarily examines how the centralization of online content regulation increases political hate speech in a country. It also explores the roles of the government's social media surveillance and disinformation in this relationship. Calhoun's public choice theory is used as a theoretical foundation to examine relationships. Data from 179 nations are analyzed using a mixed-method approach (i.e., path analysis and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis), and the findings reveal how centralization of online content regulation results in higher levels of political hate speech by increasing social media surveillance of political content and disinformation through social media by the government.

Exploration and Utilization of Curriculum Ideological and Political Education in Human Geography Teaching

Curriculum ideological and political education is an effective way to cultivate talents for socialist construction in the new era. Human geography urgently needs the integration of curriculum ideology and politics. Under the background of new requirements in the new era, the ideological and political construction of curriculum is explored. By excavating the ideological and political elements of human geography curriculum, starting from the concept of national conditions, life values, sustainable development concept, and human-land coordination concept, this paper explores the corresponding integration points of ideological and political elements in each chapter, and integrates the ideological and political contents such as world outlook, political outlook, moral outlook, outlook on life, and rule of law into the human geography classroom, so as to cultivate students' cognitive ability and practical ability, improve their social responsibility and ability to identify right and wrong, and realize the educational effect of “moistening things silently”.

Local Political Policies with Shari'a Nuance in West Sumatra 2000-2018

The Shari'a Regional Regulation legitimizes the implementation of Islamic cultural values and Minangkabau culture in West Sumatra. Knowledge of the reality of regional regulation practice is important for harmonizing social and state life in a pluralistic society. This research aims to explain the relationship between the emergence of the Sharia Regional Regulation in West Sumatra and its implementation in city districts in West Sumatra. This research used historical methods, namely heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. The final results of the research reveal the positive phenomenon of the implementation of Shari'a regulations in West Sumatra. The appearance of school children they dressed as Muslim. Before studying, students were accustomed to praying and memorizing several verses in the Al-Qur'an, attending a Ramadhan Islamic boarding school during the holy month of Ramadhan, and participating in Youth Wirid activities after Ramadhan. State Civil Servants (ASN) wore Muslim clothing during official hours. In certain areas, being able to read the Al-Qur’an was a condition for getting married. Regional regulations with Islamic nuances also showed the political content of the figures, social organizations and parties, legislative members (DPRD), and power politics. This study contributes to the importance of awareness and tolerance in social practices between religious communities in various community organizations and government agencies.

A Cold War legacy of student politics and anti-communism: the contingency of Poland’s illiberal turn

ABSTRACT This article offers a historical reflection on the roots of the populist-driven “illiberal turn” in Poland. Acknowledging the backsliding of recent years as the result of political contingency and the agency of a critical mass of disruptive political actors on the Right, the article argues that the “illiberal turn” was precipitated by the interplay of three historical factors, such as dynamics of Cold War era student politics, the demise of communism in 1989 with its echoes in the subsequent decades, and the implosion of the strong post-communist Centre-Left in the mid-2000s. These processes have ensured that Poland’s political trajectory has been more sui generis than understood through the general prism of the rise of populism and that it is more the result of an entrenched political class whose worldviews have been forged by the anticommunism of the 1980s and its legacy.

Translating Intimate and Public Majakovskij into Czech Again: Why, and How?

ABSTRACT This study focuses on a new translation of selected poems of Vladimir Majakovskij into Czech and analyses it – after a brief summary of the characteristic features of Majakovskij’s poetry and his poetics. The new Czech translation, prepared almost 70 years after the last one, seeks, among other things, to challenge the image of Majakovskij as a servile follower of communist ideology and the bard of the Russian revolution, which persists in the Czech literary community and which has been reinforced by the controversial personality of the earlier ‘canonical’ Czech translator of Majakovskij, Jiří Taufer. The study seeks to identify the main points of departure of the new Czech translation and confronts it with the previous translation by Taufer, paying attention to its several problematic aspects. It is argued that the main ambition of the new Czech translation was to present Majakovskij unbiasedly as one of the most original figures in modern Russian/Soviet and world literature, while at the same time trying to rehabilitate Majakovskij in the eyes of Czech readers. The paper concludes by offering a new perspective on Majakovskij’s later, ‘revolutionary’ poems, which, despite their often highly political content, have lost none of Majakovskij’s typical qualities.

The Concept and Practice of Democracy in Zimbabwe: A Call for Consensual Democracy

With the coming of independence, a new form of governance: majoritarian democracy was adopted in Zimbabwe just as it was suggested as the best in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The British rule that influenced the adoption of majoritarian democracy in Zimbabwe argued that it enables transparency and fosters checks and balances on corruption. We argue that, in a democratic system, functioning from a majoritarian perspective, there ought to be space of enjoying freedoms and rights. There ought to be sufficient representation and contribution of citizens in democratic procedures and organisations. For many, a good democratic system should speak to their bread and butter issues: their socio-economic well-being. However, these have not been enjoyed by the masses in Zimbabwe. The political atmosphere is a sad one; politics is practised for the sake of gaining power and controlboth in the ruling and opposition parties, something that is immanent in multiparty under majoritarian democracy. This study seeks to outline these ills and address them with a suggestion of embracing consensual democracy as it was conceptualised by Kwasi Wiredu. The central argument is that democratisation has failed due to a well curated system that seem to prioritise rivalry in politics as opposed to nation building. The study suggests that consensual democracy can address persistent political ills in contemporary Zimbabwe and build a unified and prosperous nation. The essential tenets that can enable this emanate from a historical record of political thought in indigenous Zimbabwe, characterised by the conceptualisation of rational deliberation in decision-making and inclusiveness: a consensual system in politics.

Accountability and Political Competition

Accountability and Political Competition

Электоральная активность молодёжи в качестве кандидатов в депутаты Законодательного собрания Новосибирской области 2005-2020 гг

The object of the study was the Novosibirsk Region, which has the status of a border area, characterized by a high level of economic development and political competition among other Siberian regions. The study analyzed information about young candidates for deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region, who participated in election campaigns in the period 2005-2020. A young candidate is a person under the age of 35 having the passive voting right. At the present stage, the majority of Russian researchers acknowledge the political passivity of young people. The analysis of the data posted on the official website of the Electoral Commission of the Novosibirsk Region allows to draw the following conclusions: the number of candidates, including young ones, nominated by political parties is growing; the number of young self-nominated candidates is decreasing with each electoral cycle. This fact may be explained by difficulties of signature collection process for non-partisan candidates. It is at this stage that a significant number of candidates drop out of the electoral race. At the same time, the number of young people elected to deputies over the course of four electoral cycles has consistently been 7-9 people from different political parties (in single-mandate constituencies and on party lists). Meanwhile, the number of vacant deputy mandates decreased from 98 to 76. Over the course of four electoral cycles, the LDPR has attracted the greatest number of young people as candidates for deputies in single-mandate constituencies and party lists. The United Russia party has the smallest percentage of young candidates in its ranks. Such a personnel policy of the ruling party is connected with the presence of a great number of well-known and trusted candidates. Other parties are experiencing a shortage of personnel and during the election campaign they run young candidates. Thus, young people have a real opportunity to be elected from different parties (the ruling party, parliamentary opposition parties).

<b>Political competition and the rechanneling of corporate bribery into politically-connected charity donations: Evidence from South Korea</b>

<b>Political competition and the rechanneling of corporate bribery into politically-connected charity donations: Evidence from South Korea</b>

New Technologies and Political Competition: the Impact of Social Media Communication on Political Contributions

New Technologies and Political Competition: the Impact of Social Media Communication on Political Contributions

IMPERIALISM, THATCHERISM, AND RESISTANCE IN EDWARD BOND'S THE WOMAN: ACTING BACK TO THE CENTER

Edward Bond is one of the greatest dramatists of post-war period. During the 1970s, one dramatist who tried to inaugurate a form of historical drama, which used history as a means of representing political circumstances of contemporary Britain, was Edward Bond. In 1978, with The Woman, he seemed to have achieved his goal. He uses the history of the past to reveal the political, social and economic situation of his own time in order to make a change. Bond's The Woman is a critique and an attack on imperialism, neo-liberalism, and Thatcherism, but a revived version in the modern sense of the word. For this reason, I decided to work on The Woman to analyze how he criticizes his society and the imperialistic ideas dominant in western societies. As mentioned before, the main focus of this study is to read and interpret Bond's The Woman in the light of imperialism and see how colonized people, especially women, reject the imperial legacy by resistance and acting back to the center. The Woman contains numerous suggestions that Trojan War was an imperialist one which happened over economic interests and political competitions were at stake. Bond aims to have a deconstructive writing of the misogynist prejudgments and reveal that human civilizations and institutions collapsed due to imperialist and hegemonic political practices.

Application and analysis of online and offline blended teaching mode based on online and offline in art theory course civics

Abstract In the context of the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, college, and university curricula need to reform the content of curriculum Civics and Politics in keeping with the times and introduce new era Civics and Politics elements into the curriculum content. The study integrates civic and political elements into the art theory classroom in a scientific and refined way according to the concept of civic and political curriculum. Then, data mining of students’ online learning behavior in online-offline blended teaching is carried out by constructing an improved Apriori algorithm. There is no significant difference between the midterm grades of the experimental group and the control group, and the mean score of the experimental group’s final grade is 10.55 points higher than that of the control group, and the significance P-value is less than 0.01. The experimental group and the control group present significant differences in the three aspects of artistic creation, artistic symbolism, and artistic content (P<0.05), and P>0.05 in the artistic genre and artistic performance, and the differences between the two groups are relatively small. There is a high correlation between the number of visits to the learning page, the completion of resource learning, the completion of chapter testing, and the learning effect, and there is no significant effect of homework submission initiative on the students’ learning effect.

Становление парламентаризма в период Первой русской революции в оценках иркутских общественно-политических деятелей

The article highlights the key stages of the formation of parliamentarism in the Russian Empire during the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. On the basis of a complex set of personal origin sources, the opinions of active participants in the Siberian political process, stages and content of the civil society formation process and its involvement in socio-political life in the empire and the region are identified and analyzed. In conclusion, findings are formulated about the main essential characteristics of the process under study and its impact on the further evolution of the Russian political system.

Scientific research by British authors on the Second World War as an element of information and psychological confrontation with Russia

The article examines the political and ideological narratives in the scientific research of British authors devoted to the Second World War. The purpose of this publication is to study the works of British authors as a tool of information and psychological warfare aimed at promoting a certain ideological agenda in Russian society. In the course of the study, some recommendations were formulated that can contribute to strengthening state policy in the field of preserving historical memory. The subject of the research is the scientific research of such authors as: E. Beevor, M. Hastings, T.Ripley, K.Aylesby, S. Crawford, N. Cornish, S.Hart, R. Hart and M. Hughes. The object is political and ideological narratives aimed at promoting the pro-Western agenda in the information and educational field, as well as in the publishing sphere. The research methodology was subordinated to the goals and objectives of the work, directly reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the topic under study. To identify the main narratives in the works of foreign authors, a qualitative content analysis was conducted aimed at reflecting the main plots, images and their political and ideological content. According to the results of the study, it was revealed that the distortion and manipulation of historical memory in the research of British authors is aimed at promoting a certain ideological and political agenda. This process is carried out using a one-sided selection of facts in the description, certain events and the placement of narrative accents, as well as in the dehumanization of the Red Army and the Soviet Union. The narrative constructed by Western authors is aimed at both the internal audience and the younger generation within our country, in order to involve them in the areola of Western information policy. Today, the narrative of the Second World War is used by modern researchers and politicians of the Western world as a tool to promote the anti-Russian agenda. In order to counteract the Western policy of distorting historical memory, it is necessary to take a number of the following measures: the promotion of popular scientific journals on history, the return of editorial edits and articles from the editor when publishing research by Western authors, the return of printing memoirs of Red Army soldiers and the restriction of publication of memoirs of the German military.

«Европейская комиссия сейчас подобна ЦК КПСС». Беседа с журналом «Логос»

In his conversation with the editors of Logos about the key plots and the context of the book Endgame Europe. Why the Europe Political Project Has Failed and How Can We Dream of It Again (2022) its co-author, Hauke Ritz, emphasizes that it was induced by a reflection on the reasons of the European Union project’s failure at the time of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. This failure has both an internal political — the failure of democracy and republicanism in the internal structures of the EU, and a foreign dimension — the deterioration of relations between Germany (Europe), the West and Russia and, of course, the conflict in Ukraine. Moreover, the internal political failure in the implementation of the European peace project, largely associated with the choice of an extensive path of its development (EU enlargement, coupled with NATO expansion to the east) at the expense of intensity (deepening political integration) leads to deep foreign policy complications and is aggravated by them. The fact that the EU project, which has not made progress in its domestic political (democratic and republican) content and is artificially limited through the exclusion of Russia from the European world and the common security architecture, has turned out to be instrumentalized, along with support for the US position on Ukraine, according to Ritz, constitutes a betrayal of Europe. The problem is compounded by the disregard of the university community and the mainstream media for this catastrophic state of affairs. However, new, alternative media are emerging and gaining popularity all over Europe, critically and responsibly exploring these topics and contributing to the formation of reflective European solidarity.

Naval policy of the Russian Federation: national security issues

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to comprehend the problems of naval policy in order to solve them within the framework of the implementation of the goals of strategic planning of maritime activities of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030. The purpose of the study is a political analysis of the current problems of Russia’s naval policy, the solution of which is necessary to achieve the goals of strategic planning for the period up to 2030 in the field of maritime activities. The objectives of the study were: 1) political analysis of the latest documents of the state policy in the field of maritime activity of Russia in order to identify the most significant problems that require prompt resolution; 2) content analysis of certain provisions of the Strategy for the Development of Maritime Activities in the Russian Federation adopted until 2030; 3) analysis of the research directions of the naval policy of Russia by Russian scientists; 4) development of recommendations on possible solutions to problems of a political and legal nature that contribute to improving the effectiveness of further implementation of Russia’s naval policy for the strategic period up to 2030. The methodology of scientific research is based on the use of methods of political science and content analysis of strategic documents that determine the vector of development of modern Russian naval policy for the next decade. The research uses methods of political science and jurisprudence (in particular, legal analysis). The author substantiates the most pressing problems of Russia’s naval policy, the solution of which directly affects the results of strategic planning of maritime activities in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030. The analysis of the positions of Russian scientists and practitioners on the problem of research is carried out. The study made it possible to formulate the necessary recommendations regarding the solution of the problems of incompleteness of international legal regulation of the maritime borders of Russia with certain neighboring states as the main problems of the implementation of modern naval policy of the Russian Federation.

ВИЗНАЧАЛЬНІ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ РАШИЗМУ ЯК КВАЗІІДЕОЛОГІЇ І ПРАКТИКИ НЕОТОТАЛІТАРИЗМУ

The defining characteristics of racism as a quasi-ideology and practice of neo-totalitarianism have been studied and systematized, taking into account the achievements of its predecessors. The changes that took place in the modern world in the space of classical and modern ideologies are characterized. The prerequisites for the formation and consequences of the introduction of racism are elaborated. Scientific approaches to the concept of «racism» are identified and compared. 7 key signs of racism are singled out and substantiated, which include: 1) intolerance to the culture and civilizational choices of other peoples, the use of the idea of a «Russian world» as a technology for uniting a supranational community of speakers and zealots of the Russian language and culture; 2) chieftainship, the cult of the national leader, which relies on special services and the police apparatus; 3) focus on the passivity of the masses, contempt for the individual, the imposition of hypertrophied collectivism, the use of administrative resources and systematic falsification of election results; 4) demonstrative messianic cynicism aimed at discrediting universal human values, democratic procedures and standards; 5) formation of state propaganda as a cynical and lying mouthpiece of the ruling regime; 6) hatred of dissenters, incitement of enmity, economic pressure, nuclear blackmail; 7) masquerading as anti-fascism, manipulative justification of the occupation and annexation of the territories of neighboring states, justification of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, the destruction of Ukrainians as a national community. A conclusion was made about the relationship between the emergence and development of new ideologies and social changes associated with the collapse of previous states and the emergence of new ones; by changing ideas about domination and submission, freedom and justice, the meaning of existence and vision of the future; large-scale crisis phenomena of political, economic, and spiritual content in the development of humanity.

Research on the Hybrid Teaching Model of Piano in Normal Universities Based on “OBE + Politics Integrated Courses”

Abstract Teaching the piano, a vital element of artistic education is essential for developing students’ musical understanding and appreciation of beauty. Yet, conventional methods tend to focus excessively on technical proficiency, neglecting the development of students’ overall qualities. The challenge for educators is to incorporate ideological and political education into specialized courses. Outcome-Based Education (OBE) concentrates on the results of learning, highlighting the development of students’ competencies and the practical application of knowledge, while ideological and political curriculum education stresses the incorporation of ideological and political teaching into professional courses, fostering students’ awareness of social responsibility and historical duty. Based on these two educational concepts, this study designed an innovative piano teaching model and verified its effectiveness through teaching design, implementation, and effectiveness evaluation. Research has found that the experimental group students have significantly improved in basic skills, performance techniques, music understanding, expressiveness, learning attitude, and comprehensive evaluation. Students have a profound understanding of ideological and political education content, demonstrate a high level of interest, and possess the ability to integrate ideological and political education into daily learning.

The Construction of Diversified Content System of College Civics Courses Based on Knowledge Mapping

Abstract This paper firstly builds a diversified content system of ideological and political courses based on knowledge graph, extracts course knowledge, proposes a LEBERT-CRF entity recognition method that dynamically fuses words and word-level word vectors for the problems that arise in ideological and political courses, and uses dictionary adapters to integrate the features of ideological and political dictionaries into the BERT model, and then combines the resources of ideological and political courses to expand the data sources of knowledge graphs. Finally, taking the teaching and classroom of ideological and political courses in a university as an empirical study, the results show that the test results of the teaching objects on the feedback of ideological and political course content have very significant differences. The teaching observers give 8 “good” evaluations, 6 “average,” 5 “excellent” evaluations, and 2 “need for improvement” evaluations, indicating that the ideological and political elements are well integrated with the course content. The mean values of value orientation, ideological and political integration, ideological and political resources, discussion and interaction, reflection and evaluation, activity organization, technical support, resource push, and dual-line teaching were 3.776, 4.098, 3.874, 4.191, 4.075, 3.885, 4.265, 3.945, and 4.245, respectively. Students recognize the content system of ideological and political courses constructed in this paper. Therefore, the content system of ideological and political courses built in this paper can effectively solve the current situation of redundant and difficult-to-grasp ideological and political knowledge systematically.