Field Of Political Science Research Articles

International Relations: What Causes States to Pursue Free Trade

International relations are ire interdisciplinary in the nature of this world as they blend with fields of political science, history, and economics in the examination of topics regarding global poverty, human rights, globalization, the political environment, and economics. Free trade is an engine of growth as it keeps on increasing on the global scale thus making it a significant contributor to the economic growth of a state. States which enact free trade policies can create their own economic dynamism, which allows them to foster increased opportunities and freedom for every individual. The governing on states highly relies on good international relations with other nations in a correlating manner where both parties may benefit immensely. Free trade is an essential factor in maintaining affirmative international relations among states, thus the dire need for states to pursue it.

Ivmte: An R Package for Implementing Marginal Treatment Effect Methods

Instrumental variable (IV) strategies are widely used to estimate causal effects in economics, political science, epidemiology, psychology, and other fields. When there is unobserved heterogeneity in causal effects, standard linear IV estimators only represent effects for complier subpopulations (Imbens and Angrist, 1994). Marginal treatment effect (MTE) methods (Heckman and Vytlacil, 1999, 2005) allow researchers to use additional assumptions to extrapolate beyond complier subpopulations. We discuss a flexible framework for MTE methods based on linear regression and the generalized method of moments. We show how to implement the framework using the ivmte package for R.

Signed Network Formation Games and Clustering Balance

We propose a signed network formation game, in which pairs of individuals strategically change the signs of the edges in a complete network. These individuals are members of a social network who strategically reduce cognitive dissonances by changing their interpersonal appraisals. We characterize the best-response dynamics for this game and prove that its implementation can dynamically drive the network to a sociologically meaningful sign configuration called clustering balance. In this configuration, agents in the social network form one or more clusters that have positive relationships among their members but negative relationships among members of other clusters. In the past, various researchers in the fields of psycho-sociology, political science, and physics have looked at models that explain the generation of up to two clusters. Our work contributes to these fields by proposing a simple model that generates a broader class of signed networks.

The Unstable Past: Historical Memory as a Political Tool in the Electronic Media of Contemporary Russia

The so-called “memory wars” have been the subject of close attention for several years, and sometimes even fierce debate among researchers — experts in the field of political science, historical science, communication theory, etc., and not by accident: events of the past (one can make a reservation: of what is meant by the past) “fall over” into the present, forming various patterns of sociocultural, ethnocultural, political identities in the present, and thereby, to a certain extent, affecting the future. Are these processes directed and controlled — or, conversely, are they spontaneous? How can readers and viewers relate facts and interpretations of historical plots, concerning the fact that these tasks can be of considerable difficulty even for professional historians? And to what extent ways of dealing with history become instruments in the political space of modern Russia? Obviously, these questions have been asked more than once on various media platforms and still do not lose relevance. The article focuses on the analysis of a number of the most characteristic practices of production, reproduction and interpretation of historical subjects in Russian mass media: in Internet versions of so-called “traditional” media, as well as in “new media” (zines, imageboards, etc.). We proceed from the fact that the information environment sets specific parameters for the treatment of history: its events in digital space not only have “technical reproducibility”, but also the speed of this reproducibility is very high; history is being re-writed no longer in a figurative, but in a literal sense, in real time and not by members of the expert community (whatever this community is). Information receives a visual dimension that is significant for the audience; one of the expressive manifestations of this is the culture of memes. Thus, historical memory is once again becoming a battleground for political conflict: in this case, between agents of traditional media and new actors in the digital space.

The contours of the development of non-living resources in Greenland

Abstract In past discussions regarding development (of non-living resources) and indigenous people, a strong tendency existed to understand the act of development as a one-way impact from an outside society. This was often labelled as “environmental racism” and interpreted as a form of ethnic discrimination deeply intertwined with environmental issues. However, this view contained an element of confirmation bias regarding development and indigenous people. For example, it has been reported that in Alaska and elsewhere, indigenous people have taken initiative in developing non-living resources, making it clear that indigenous people are not necessarily passive subjects on whom development is unilaterally imposed. In this paper, after examining recent trends in the development of non-living resources, I shall take up the development of such resources in Greenland with the goal of sorting out and extrapolating the main arguments in the debate, especially within the self-rule government, regarding how the wealth obtained through the development of non-living resources should be enjoyed, while focusing on the notion of sustainable development and taking into consideration previous studies from the field of political science.

Emociones y decisión de voto los componentes de voto en las elecciones generales de 2016 en España

El estudio de las emociones ha resurgido en los últimos veinte años desde diferentes espacios disciplinares y con diferentes enfoques teóricos y engranajes metodológicos, si bien su incorporación en el ámbito de la ciencia política no ha sido sencillo. Bajo una lectura complementaria de la relación que emociones y razón guardan entre ellas, nos proponemos en este trabajo realizar un análisis del papel que las emociones puedan tener en la decisión de voto. Para ello, el convulso y confuso contexto político que se produjo en las elecciones generales de 2016 en España, tras un intento fallido de formación de gobierno, resulta el escenario idóneo en el cual analizar y estudiar el impacto que en la decisión de voto de los electores jugó, junto a otros componentes tradicionales, el elemento emocional.

Political communications of the UK government as an institutional system

The civilization process of social development as of the period of XX-XXI centuries caused the comprehensive development of man in the cultural and political science fields. The intensive growth of humanitarian, natural science and technical and technological knowledge has shaped the sociocultural and political activity of the population. In these conditions, political communication as a simplified version of “power-society” relationship is transformed into a separate area of human activity, which has a serious impact on personal identity. In modern conditions, political communication is not just a process aimed at transmitting any information. This is a multitude of processes where power should be considered as the source. There is a variety of processes represented in species diversity. Political communications in modern conditions have acquired the status of a social institution with its structure, internal systemic links and links with scientific knowledge, which play an important role in determining the vector of development of society.

Islam, Environmental Science and Conservation

Islam, Environmental Science and Conservation Salah D. Hassan (bio) The 13th Annual Conference convened by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University (MSU) took place on October 15 and 16, 2020 on "Islam, Environmental Science and Conservation." Initially planned as an on-campus meeting to be held in East Lansing, Michigan in April 2020, the conference was moved to a synchronous online format as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. In order to accommodate participants in different time zones, most notably panelists located in Indonesia, the four conference sessions were held between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm over two days. Despite the many difficulties caused by the pandemic, researchers studying the environment have continued to do their important work and share knowledge in the face of the tragic global situation. Indeed, the challenge of the global health crisis has affirmed the urgency of building and maintaining connections with international students and scholars committed to expanding ecological awareness. The importance of the topics discussed was in part confirmed by the numerous papers proposed, including the participation and attendance of scholars from many universities globally. The conference had 105 registered attendees from the US, Canada, UK, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Morocco, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Brunei, Belgium, Finland, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Austria, and Qatar. [End Page 129] The conference received significant support from MSU's academic programs with co-sponsorship by the African Studies Center, the Asian Studies Center, the Citizen-Scholars Program, the Department of Forestry, the Department of Religious Studies, the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, the Honors College, James Madison College, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. Jay Samek and David Skole, faculty members in the Department of Forestry at MSU who have worked on forestry projects with colleagues in Indonesia since 2016, proposed the conference idea to the Muslim Studies Program. Samek has been involved in a partnership with the University of Palangka Raya and Muhammadiyah University of Palangka Raya that deals with forest restoration and climate change. Professor Skole's research looks at "the relationship between forests, land use change, the global carbon cycle and climate change." The conference addressed general issues at the intersection of Islamic religious traditions and environmental science to better understand the convergence of the theological and material foundations of Muslim ecological practices and the emerging academic approaches to climate-change being developed by scholars studying Islam. This conference highlighted an area of research in the field of Muslim and Islamic Studies that does not receive enough attention, but it can contribute crucially to addressing environmental concerns effecting all communities across the globe. The dialogue was enriched by the interdisciplinary character of the program, which included scholars from the fields of Islamic studies, medicine, religious studies, philosophy, forestry, political science, languages, history, anthropology, and geography. October 15, 2020: Welcoming Remarks, Session 1 and Session 2 Professor Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University) opened the conference by welcoming all participants and attendees. He noted the extensive participation of scholars from around the world and the large number of attendees who had registered for the virtual event. Professor Khalil then introduced Steven D. Hanson, Associate Provost and Dean of International Studies and Programs at MSU. Dean Hanson emphasized the important work of the Muslim Studies Program, which has enhanced the stature of MSU in international studies. He also noted the thematic strengths, regional expertise and global partnerships of the conference. He concluded by highlighting the exemplary nature of the conference, which has the potential to generate solutions beyond the academy and have influence on environmental policy and on communities facing ecological crises. Session 1: "Islam and Environmental Activism-Part I: Looking to the Sources" included presentations by Natana Delong-Bas (Boston College), [End Page 130] Abdalmajid Katranji (Michigan State University), Sarra Tlili (University of Florida), and Sami al-Daghistani (Columbia University; Brooklyn Institute for Social Research; Center for Advanced Study of Religion in Oslo, Norway). Delong-Bas's paper on "Intertextual Scriptural Reading as Inspiration for Interfaith Cooperation in Water Conservation and Management" analyzed references to water in the Qur'an and Bible, showing how water figures in religious texts as "God's gift...

Estudos sobre fluxos migratórios e gênero nas publicações em periódicos de Qualis relevantes no Brasil

Este artigo trata de resultados parciais de um estudo sobre publicações em periódicos brasileiros acerca dos fluxos migratórios internacionais e gênero, considerando os impactos destes nas pesquisas e publicações em periódicos brasileiros. Com o aumento do fluxo de mobilidade humana, as migrações constituem um dos campos de interesse e de pesquisas científicas brasileiras, resultando em uma temática não só da Demografia, mas também da Sociologia, da Antropologia, da Ciência Política, do Direito, da Psicologia, do Serviço Social dentre outras áreas do conhecimento que trazem suas contribuições teóricas ou empíricas desse fenômeno. Portanto, este estudo problematiza de onde partem as produções que estão conseguindo inserir-se em periódicos considerados de impacto relevante em suas áreas de adesão, no Brasil. A construção desse mapa cognitivo apontará grupos de pesquisas, universidades, estados e regiões do país, o que ajudará a pensarmos em uma possível hipótese de seletividade regional para a produção científica nesses periódicos. Assim, mais do que trazer novidades nas produções localizadas, busca-se investigar cientificamente comentários recorrentes de pesquisadores/as brasileiros/as de uma possível seletividade regional para publicarem em revistas do centro do país. O percurso deste estudo ocorre a partir da constatação das múltiplas formas nas quais o fenômeno migratório vem sendo alvo de estudos e pesquisas através da produção do conhecimento, sobretudo a publicada em periódicos brasileiros. Isso demonstra a importância e os avanços nessa área do conhecimento, retratando as intersecções entre migrações e gênero. Dessa forma, o presente artigo é um recorte acerca da produção intelectual e do debate sobre o tema; a partir disso, em um segundo momento, replicaremos a metodologia com o mapeamento dos temas, com debates e categorias analíticas que estão sendo desenvolvidos e que não chegam aos periódicos considerados de maior impacto, analisando aqueles submetidos aos periódicos menos expressivos, até que sejam aceitos para publicação.

On the subject field and methodological foundations of legal and political science.

Legal and political science is a relatively new trend in political science, which began to emerge in Ukraine only in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The current stage of conceptualization and institutionalization of legal political science is characterized by the formation of its own theoretical base, the expansion of the circle of researchers dealing with this issue. It is necessary to identify the sources of the formation of legal and political science, its object and object, tasks and functions, that is, to create a fundamental theoretical concept that reflects the level of knowledge achieved and is a kind of basis for further scientific research in this direction. The transformative processes that took place in society and science in the second half of the XX century had a decisive influence on the process of designing legal and political science into an independent field of knowledge. and which eventually led to: 1) increased attention of scholars to the consideration of politics and law in the unity of their value-meaning characteristics; 2) the identification of political law as an independent area of ​​scientific research; 3) intensifying the development of interdisciplinary political and legal studies. Legal and political science is, in fact, a post-nonclassical stage in the development of political science, which determines its originality in terms of subject and methodological aspects. Formed on the border of political science and jurisprudence, legal and political science is an integrative system of knowledge that combines the cognitive resources of both sciences. Legal and political science aims to cover a fairly wide range of issues of state-legal construction. At the same time, the specificity of legal political science is that it focuses on the study of the political constituent of law, studying the socio-political conditions of the exercise of law, the influence of political phenomena and processes on the creation and functioning of legal norms. That is, it is interested in law not as a set of certain norms, their nature and character, but above all the political conditionality of law thr

Introduction: Museums and Monuments: Memorials of Violent Pasts in Urban Spaces

IntroductionMuseums and Monuments: Memorials of Violent Pasts in Urban Spaces Ulrike Capdepón, Aline Sierp, and Jill Strauss Over the last thirty years, there have been ever increasing numbers of memorial projects worldwide that address the histories of mass violence, genocides, recent wars, dictatorships and systematic human rights abuses. Along with the growing numbers of memory initiatives, the theoretical field of memory studies has developed concurrently. Writing on the influence of symbolism and ritual on remembrance in the early 1990s, historian John Bodnar noted the dearth of literature on collective memory in urban spaces.1 Over the next three decades this strand has grown exponentially. In the introduction to their special issue from 2008, “Collective Memory and the Politics of Urban Space,” Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman and Maoz Azaryahu argued that the choices individuals and groups make to remember or forget are “embedded within and constrained by particular socio-spatial conditions.”2 Meanwhile, Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider had already coined the term “cosmopolitan memory” to describe how cultural memory is not limited to localities but, in fact, goes beyond borders. They reasoned that just as individual and collective memories are interconnected processes, so too, local and global memory making are symbiotic.3 Drawing on developments in the field, from local framings of memory to transnational perspectives, this special issue focuses on the role of various memory practices in urban space. When places hold multiple and often opposing memories, the question of whose histories are remembered and publicly shared, or marginalized and excluded, becomes crucial for understanding social dynamics and political change. Coming from the fields of anthropology, communication, history and political science, this interdisciplinary group of scholars presents various case studies of public representation of contested history in cities located in Europe and the Americas to discuss theoretical and [End Page 5] methodological approaches in memory studies. Toward that end, the articles address the following questions: To what extent is there a common thread in the motivation to portray contested history in spaces of public memory display? And related to this, in what ways are memorialization practices informed by transnational perspectives? Finally, how do political forces and civil society activists shape public debates regarding the representation of a contested past in urban space? This collection examines how museums and memory sites construct historical narratives through processes of preservation, education and public exhibition. Aline Sierp’s article on the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism considers how and why Munich, the birthplace of Nazism, was able to avoid for seventy years publicly acknowledging and documenting its role in Hitler’s rise to power. Sierp refers to the influence of transnational memory processes when analyzing the museum that was ultimately constructed and shows how they shaped the museum’s decision to design exhibitions to educate and engage visitors on taking responsibility. Cosmopolitan memory and glocalization—a concept also used to describe how ideas and practices are adopted globally and then adapted to suit the local situation—are employed by Jan Gryta in his article on the history of the creation of the museum in Oskar Schindler’s Factory in Kraków, Poland. In this case, given Schindler’s role in saving the lives of more than one-thousand Jewish internees, memorializing the factory itself was not in question. Influenced by international best practices of museum exhibition design, the museum director and curators envisioned portrayals of the daily lives of all residents of Kraków, but this met with resistance from city officials. The conflict centered on how best to represent the Poles who were both victims and perpetrators in a country unwilling to acknowledge its culpability even five decades later. Whether or not monuments, museums and symbolic acts like street or place names are physically tied to “authentic” places of memory, they often function as powerful political tools. In Buenos Aires, the former clandestine torture and extermination center ESMA, originally the school of the Argentine navy, today houses a memorial museum in the building that was the headquarters of repression and disappearance during the Argentine dictatorship (1976–83). In her article on the Ex-ESMA, Susana Kaiser compares visitor and museum staff experiences of the site...

Possibilities of artificial intelligence in assessing the impact of potentially dangerous texts in modern news discourse: problem of statement

The relevance of the stated problem reflects the study of the “friend-foe” dichotomy, which is clearly represented in the modern news discourse, since it reflects the most significant problems for society: migration, the COVID-19 pandemic, crime, various confrontations, problems of socially vulnerable citizens, etc. The subject of the research is to Refine the parameters for evaluating potentially dangerous texts for the subsequent creation of a library of software modules for theming and classifying news messages, including using AI technologies. Hypothesis: the proposed parameters of the system of interpretation of potentially dangerous text increase the chances of determining the prognostic level of the degree of propensity to illegal actions, so the creation of a digital library will help to quickly analyze the levels of potential dangers for the recipient. The use of digital technologies for psycholinguistic assessment of potentially dangerous texts optimizes the search and tracking of such texts, contributing to the development of measures to ensure the safety of the human psyche in conditions of massive impact on the recipient in order to change his personal attitudes. The author raises the problem of creating a single digital platform for evaluating such texts, noting the need for linguistic priority when creating semantic markup, which will allow us to qualitatively rank potentially dangerous texts. Such work requires the application of interdisciplinary efforts of specialists in the fields of linguistics, psychology, mythology, history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, mathematics, computer science and Digital Humanities. The practical value is unquestionable, since psycholinguodiagnostics of a person does not correlate with the potential danger of texts produced by such a person in society.

Relativita sociálnej spravodlivosti ako základného princípu sociálnej politiky štátu

Each state of Western civilization, which is identified by the boundaries of three basic subsystem – the system approach and value legacy of ancient Greece, Christianity, Christian social teaching, modern and postmodern political ideologies, implements a certain model of social policy. Social justice is one of the main principles of social policy. It is a natural requirement of society, which aims to ensure the good of society on behalf of individuals and various social groups. Social justice is the subjects of research by scientists and theorists in the fields of philosophy, sociology, law, economics, and political science. Its essence is relative and change in the time and space. The main goal of the paper is to identify common intersections of individual scientific disciplines with a view to social justice. Presented contribution is a part of solution of Project VEGA 1/0290/20 – Sociálna spravodlivosť a starobné dôchodkové sporenie v Slovenskej republike

Conceptualization of post-Soviet regime changes: Some intermediate results

The aim of the article is to analyze the attempts to conceptualize post-Soviet regime changes that have been undertaken over the past thirty years. For convenience, all concepts are grouped around three main approaches. The first one examines regime transformations in the former USSR from the point of view of a possible transition to democracy (transition paradigm); the second approach emphasizes the continuity between the post-Soviet political regimes and previous ones, overlooking fundamental differences between them; the third approach assumes that the post-Soviet transition did take place, however, it was “autocracyto-autocracy transition” (from one-party communist dictatorship to hybrid regimes or consolidated personalistic autocracies). The author considers regime change as transformation of some basic formal and informal rules of the game that determine the functioning of a given political system (from the way of making key decisions and allocating resources to the main channels for recruiting to the elite). As a result, the author proves that the third approach is the most relevant for understanding post-Soviet politics. Inter alia, its advantage is that it allows us to fit post-Soviet studies into the wider field of comparative political science: the analysis of post-Soviet politics, on the one hand, can significantly enrich our ideas about “how dictatorships work” at large, on the other hand, empirical knowledge about autocracies outside post-Soviet Eurasia and theories built on this basis will help us to understand the nature of authoritarianism in Russia’s “near abroad”.

Kann Europa gelingen? Vorhaben und Chancen der deutschen Ratspräsidentschaft

Renowned scholars and practitioners discuss current issues of European integration in the areas of political science, law and related fields of research in integration. This journal contains three categories of articles: academic contributions and fundamental analyses of European policy, conference reports and literature reviews.

Cyber conflict or democracy “hacked”? How cyber operations enhance information warfare

Abstract Are cyber-enabled information warfare (IW) campaigns uniquely threatening when compared with traditional influence operations undertaken by state actors? Or is the recent “hacking” of Western democracies simply old wine in new—but fundamentally similar—bottles? This article draws on classical theories of democratic functionality from the political science and communications studies fields to deconstruct the aims and effects of cyber-enabled IW. I describe democracies as information systems wherein the moderating functions of democratic discourse and policy deliberation rely on robust mechanisms for asserting the credibility, origination, and quality of information. Whereas the institutions of democracy are often compromised in ways that force failures of the system’s moderating dynamics, influence operations in the digital age act to subvert the traditional mechanisms of democratic functionality in new ways. Sophisticated digital age information operations create a multifaceted attribution challenge to the target state that amounts to unprecedented uncertainty about the nature and scope of the threat. However, the promise of cyber-enabled IW capabilities emerges more from the rewiring of modern democratic information environments around new media platforms than it does from the cyber conflict faculties of state actors. Rather, cyber operations act as an adjunct modifier of IW abilities that allow belligerent governments to secure new sources of private information, to divert attention from other pillars of IW campaigns, to compromise the capabilities of domestic counterintelligence assets and to tacitly coerce important members of society.

Analysis of gender relations in modern social and human sciences

Modern Kazakhstan is a multi-confessional state that provides absolutely equal rights to its citizens.The gender approach presupposes not only an innovative rethinking of the position of women,but also the search for practical ways to free her from outdated ideas about herself and her role in themodern world. The article describes the processes of the development of gender relations in the socialand humanitarian sciences, and also gives their new models adopted in Kazakhstan, in particular inthe field of political science, law, economics and religious studies. Based on the results of the rankingon gender equality, developed by the international community, the results of political, economic, religiousand legal research in Kazakhstan are analyzed. Kazakhstani society is characterized by its ownconsistent development of modern gender relations in these areas.It should be noted that gender studies broadens the scope of innovation and research in sociology,including religion. First of all, this is due to the processes of secularization, modernization and emancipation.The question of the role and importance of gender studies and feminism in the field of religionarises in connection with the increase in the level of religiosity among women, which researchersinterpret in different ways, but most of these approaches are based on theoretical principles of gender.Key words: gender, politics, gender economy, religion.

Political Psychology as a Guide to Understanding and Explaining Our Political Decisions, Attitudes and Behaviors from a Perpective of Individual to Society

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge that has been developing rapidly since the second half of the 20th century. Although this discipline is generally known as the intersection of the fields of political science and psychology, it focuses on finding a wide range of connection points from history to economy and from anthropology to philosophy, and creating a multi-perspective analysis system. This discipline’s area of interest does not only cover the psychological origins of individuals’ political behavior or the psychoanalytic evaluation of political profiles. Especially in the last decades, the tendency to study the social attitudes of large groups, the effects of narratives reflected from their collective memories, their trauma, their anger, the processes of marginalization and enmity have become much more prominent. Nowadays, the scientific world uses technology increasingly in research with the aim of getting to know people and society. Naturally, new expansions and depth of political psychology will be shaped in this direction.

Domovinski rat u hrvatskim znanstvenim časopisima

Autori analiziraju kako se u vodećim društveno-humanističkim znanstvenim časopisima u Hrvatskoj obrađivala tematika Domovinskoga rata. Kronološki je rad podijeljen na dva razdoblja: od 1991. do 1999. te od 2000. do 2018. godine. Rad ne sadržava bibliografiju znanstvenih i stručnih radova na temu Domovinskoga rata, nego samo one najvažnije koji su, prema mišljenju autora, pridonijeli boljem razumijevanju Domovinskoga rata.

Review: DEMOCRACIA/ORDER

Book Review| December 01 2019 Review: DEMOCRACIA/ORDER DEMOCRACIA/ORDER: Station Museum of Contemporary Art. Houston, Texas: April 27–August 18, 2019. Yoli Terziyska Yoli Terziyska Yoli Terziyska is a London-based arts advisor, writer, and editor. She co-founded KAPSULA Press in 2013, and in summer 2019 launched a series of artist residency projects in Cuba and Bulgaria. She writes articles on contemporary art issues with an interest in art and politics, and edits scholarly articles for academics in the fields of art, political science, and architecture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2019) 46 (4): 75–80. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.464006 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Yoli Terziyska; Review: DEMOCRACIA/ORDER. Afterimage 1 December 2019; 46 (4): 75–80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.464006 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search DEMOCRACIA/ORDER was a solo exhibition that took place earlier this year at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas. It featured two series by the Spanish art collective DEMOCRACIA, formed by artists Iván López and Pablo España. The two artists have collaborated since 2006 and have consistently created projects that challenge the sociopolitical status quo. Their practice's hard-left approach aims to confront their audiences with uncomfortable topics such as the failure of democracy, social inequality, mindless consumerism, and the state as an apparatus of oppression, while pointing to our indolent complacency in regard to these issues. One of the series in the exhibition included a three-part operatic film titled ORDER (2018), accompanied by an installation that presented photographs, video stills, placards, and other ephemera borrowed from the performances captured in each part of the film. ORDER was shown alongside works from the installation We Protect You From Yourselves... You do not currently have access to this content.