Understanding Of Politics Research Articles

Shifting sands: How change-point and community detection can enrich our understanding of international politics

When and how do international political arrangements change? International relations scholars have long examined the nature of shifts in international alliance and cooperation networks, often arguing that times of disruption in the international system are the most precarious for peace. In this research note, we rely on innovations in change-point and community detection methods to endogenously examine the timing and nature of shifts in country-to-country relationships through defense cooperative agreements. Using new methodical innovations from network science, we can see how countries move through different communities over time, changing the nature of polarity in the system. This empirical approach can help provide insights into determinants of peace, vulnerabilities in the international system, and potential aggressors in world politics.

The Form and Character of Circulating Governing Elite in Nigeria: Past and Present

Abstract This paper is basically an application of the famous elite perspective to the Nigerian government and politics to test whether it is a theory that can be confirmed or infirmed. The observable phenomenon which is similar to virtually all regions and climes of the world is the emergence of very few people circulating in the political space over time. From pre-colonial, to colonial and post-colonial Nigerian state, a number of elites from diverse sectors of the society – the military, politicians, civil society, business tycoons, religious leaders and traditional elites kept circulating in the political firmament of Nigeria. The paper is a confirmation of the elite theory paradigm or construct to the understanding of Nigerian government and politics. The paper, however, noted that if nothing changes the required leap from a developing status of Nigeria as a country to developed one may take time after all.

International Relations and Ernst B. Haas, Ernst B. Haas and International Relations

ABSTRACT Ernst B. Haas is a seminal figure in the study of International Relations whose work helps guide our understanding of twenty-first century politics as well. He was instrumental in developing many of the themes commonly used to understand world politics: regional integration, international regimes, science and institutions, and nationalism. He was also a founding father of Constructivism. This piece serves as an introduction to this special issue on Ernst B. Haas.

The path from participatory culture to participatory politics: A critical investigation—An interview with Henry Jenkins

In this interview, Henry Jenkins critically reviews his theorization of the logical and practical connection between participatory culture and participatory politics, which is enabled and facilitated by the civic imagination of various social groups strategically and affectively deploying popular culture resources for different political purposes. Henry Jenkins emphatically discusses the democratic potential of participatory culture in autocratic societies and the mechanisms to promote the progressiveness of participatory politics, and carefully yet enthusiastically defends the significance of fandom’s affective and appropriative practices for bridging participatory culture and participatory politics. In the end of this interview, Henry Jenkins also reflects on the genealogical relations of his thinking on participatory democracy with John Fiske’s political understanding of popular culture and evaluates his own theoretical contributions to the political philosophy of participatory democracy.

Job crafting as retention strategy: An ethnographic account of the challenges faced in crafting new nursing roles in care practice.

Nursing shortages in the global north are soaring. Of particular concern is the high turnover among bachelor-trained nurses. Nurses tend to leave the profession shortly after graduating, often citing a lack of appreciation and voice in clinical and organisational decision-making. Healthcare organisations seek to increase the sustainability of the nursing workforce by enhancing nursing roles and nurses' organisational positions. In the Netherlands, hospitals have introduced pilots in which nurses craft new roles. We followed two pilots ethnographically and examined how nurses and managers shaped new nursing roles and made sense of their (expected) impact on workforce resilience. Informed by the literature on professional ecologies and job crafting, we show how managers and nurses defined new roles by differentiating between training levels and the uptake of care-related organisational responsibilities beyond the traditional nursing role. We also show how, when embedding such new roles, nurses needed to negotiate specific challenges associated with everyday nursing practice, manifested in distinct modes of organising, work rhythms, embodied expertise, socio-material arrangements, interprofessional relationships, and conventions about what is considered important in nursing. We argue that our in-depth case study provides a relational and socio-material understanding of the organisational politics implicated in organising care work in the face of workforce shortages.

Pendidikan Politik Bung Karno Untuk Taruna Merah Putih Nganjuk Sebagai Penggerak Pemilih Pemula Dalam Pemilu 2024

Political education really needs to be transmitted to members of youth organizations so that they have good political skills. Bung Karno was a proclaimer, explorer of Pancasila and the first president of Indonesia who had visionary political views. The Community Service Team of the History Education Study Program, Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri would like to provide Bung Karno's Political Education for the Taruna Merah Putih Nganjuk as a Motivator of New Voters in the 2024 General Election. This service aims to: (1) Increase political understanding of the Taruna Merah Putih Nganjuk youth organization, and (2) Increasing insight into Bung Karno's thinking in the Indonesian Centric political movement. The methods used in service activities are lecture and demonstration methods. The lecture method is to convey the principles of Political Education, Bung Karno's thoughts, and current political conditions and ideal politics, while the demonstration method is to provide participants with the opportunity to practice speaking to put into practice the political knowledge that has been gained through discussion and question and answer. Based on the mentoring activities carried out, out of 30 participants, the results were that 27 participants were very satisfied with this activity and were able to complete the task well. The other 3 participants had technical problems. So it can be concluded that this service activity was successful.

Enlightening the Public in a Post-Enlightenment Era

This essay reflects on whether the scholar of religion has a particular role in promoting public and political knowledge and understanding of religion(s). I focus on the two main venues in which academics work: the classroom and the public arena.

Sosialisasi Pendidikan Politik Pada Siswa Sebagai Sarana Menghadapi Pemilu Serentak Tahun 2024

This service activity aims to increase the understanding, participation and knowledge of the younger generation about politics in the era of general elections, especially students at the Bintang Sembilan Vocational School, Indramayu. This PKM activity carried out visits, Focus Group Discussions, and voting simulations by students. The equipment used is material books, office stationery, boxes and voting simulation paper. Based on the results of the implementation of this service activity, it can be explained that there has been an increase in students' political participation, knowledge, understanding and awareness and they have become more aware of the importance of political participation, both in the general election process and in overseeing regional development.

Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux: casting light on class migrant experience

The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire de fille and to the letters I wrote at a similar period and phase of my life, as a first-generation student at St Hugh's College, Oxford in the early 70s. At the time, like Annie Duchesne, 1 I had no political or sociological understanding of my experience; reading Ernaux 20 years later in the early 90s was a literary epiphany, illuminating my trajectory from a working-class culture of origin to a middle-class life and career. My engagement with Ernaux over 30 years has also involved a continuous correspondence with the writer, which I draw on here, illustrating the blurred boundaries between intimacy and research discussed by Fraser and Puwar (2008) . This mise en scène of my reading self is placed within the context of the wider communities of class migrant readers of Ernaux: the lay readers studied by myself and Isabelle Charpentier, Ernaux specialists in academe, and the younger writers discussed by Aurélie Adler in this special issue.

STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ERA OF BADAMI CHALUAKYAS

The Badami Chalukyas (543–757 CE) were instrumental in shaping the socio-political and cultural landscape of southern India. Through effective governance, military conquests, and cultural patronage, they established a stable and prosperous empire in the Deccan region. This study presents an extensive analysis of their administrative framework, legal system, revenue collection, military strategies, and contributions to art, architecture, and literature. In addition, it examines the broader cultural context, particularly religious and philosophical developments that flourished during this period. By incorporating primary inscriptions, epigraphical data, and contemporary scholarly work, this research aims to offer an original and comprehensive understanding of the era's political, social, and cultural achievements.

La memoria cultural como proceso creativo, un enfoque post-memorial de la coreografía en <i>A time to mourn</i> de Iris Karayan

In the book Haut Karabakh, Le Livre Noir (Nagorno Karabakh, The Black Book), published last August 2022, several leading figures of Armenian studies recall the origins of the conflict that has pitted Azerbaijan against Armenia for decades, and give an account of their position as members of the Armenian diaspora. On this occasion the director and actor Simon Abkarian wrote: "A nation deprived of its poetic voice deprives itself of its political one. Both are inseparable". If poetic and the political are inseparable, this implies that every poetic or artistic work has a political dimension that sometimes extends beyond the very context of its creation or genesis. One explanation may be the environment, the context from which it emerged. Another reason may be the sexual identity, ethical, cultural, or social values of the artists, but also those of their audiences. Taking for granted that the understanding of politics in artistic contexts has given rise, throughout the history of both visual and performing arts, to works that protest, celebrate, present, represent or resist very often through the body, we can envision that the political stands as either an imperative or as a creative fuel. In the field of choreography since the beginning of the 20th century, the notion of constraint or creative task has almost always generated movement (corporeal, metaphorical, or kinesthetic). This paper therefore sets out to explore the extent to which the heritage of a culture and the traumas of a threatened nation such as Armenia constitute a creative constraint or a creative starting point that is self-evident or that performing artists impose on themselves. Our argument will be supported by a study of Greek-Armenian choreographer, Iris Karayan’s piece, A time to mourn, choreographed in 2009.

Dyskurs strukturalnej konieczności jako czynnik totalitaryzacji polityki i prawa. Efekt cieplarniany i pandemia COVID-19 jako polityczne „hybrydy”

This article discusses the contemporary discourse of justifying the abandonment of the protection of rights by a higher necessity, which is presented as resulting both from the indications of science and from the structural features of modern society. Such ideas are proclaimed, among others, on the occasion of the phenomena referred to as the COVID-19 pandemic and the greenhouse effect and climate crisis, and are in turn addressed by institutional and political actions. The aim of the article is to analyze this discourse and its effects on the way of understanding politics and law, and in particular the totalitarian tendencies it generates. The author adopts a hermeneutical perspective as a methodological starting point and refers to a certain understanding of politics and law as based on practical reason, which is established in the Western philosophical tradition. This then serves to outline an ideal type of discourse of structural necessity as a rejection of this type of rationality. In doing so, the author refers to the interpretation of commonly known ideological tendencies and institutional facts. The presentation of the less obvious feature of this discourse, i.e. the identification of natural and political necessity, is supported by the author with references to contemporary philosophical and political concepts dealing with the relationship between the social and natural spheres. The conclusion is that this discourse eliminates the idea of the subject, politics understood as the sphere of manifestation of subjectivity, law as an art based on practical rationality, and finally the separation of science and power.

China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa — a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector

ABSTRACT Policy makers in China and African countries increasingly attach importance to the exchange of knowledge in their development cooperation. Extensive business relationship and investment projects are found to be the major platform for skill diffusion between China and Africa. To examine the mechanism and effects of the bilateral knowledge exchange, this article uses Chinese investments in Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector as an example. By reviewing interactions at various levels of cooperation, namely within the enterprises, inter-enterprises and policy direction, the author reveals complex dynamics of knowledge sharing between Chinese and Ethiopian stakeholders. The knowledge transfer is not limited to formal training, but takes place in almost every aspect of daily operations and requires coordination of multiple levels. While knowledge is effectively transferred through practices, practices get improved through knowledge sharing at the meantime. Therefore, knowledge diffusion is not only an integral part of China-Africa economic cooperation for mutual benefits, but also facilitates political understanding and trust.

Pendidikan Politik Partai Politik Di Kabupaten Sumbawa Menjelang Pemilihan Legislatif Tahun 2024

This research provides an in-depth analysis of "Political Education of the Prosperous Justice Party in Sumbawa Regency Approaching the Legislative Election of 2024" using qualitative research methods. Through in-depth interviews with relevant informants, surveys, and data analysis, the study aims to comprehensively understand the practices of political education conducted by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS). The research findings indicate that PKS in Sumbawa Regency recognizes the importance of political education as an integral part of preparing for the 2024 Legislative Election. The party not only plays a role as a political participant but also as an agent of political education contributing significantly to the local community's political understanding. PKS's commitment to normative values such as Pancasila and Unity in Diversity is central to shaping the party's political identity. The main challenges are encountered in efforts to change public perceptions of the party's political identity and respond to resistance to the changes in political values advocated by the party. Inhibiting factors, including inconsistent regulatory complexities, resistance to changes in values, shifts in perceptions of political identity, and differences in understanding local culture, are also identified as elements influencing the dynamics of PKS's political education. This research provides a profound understanding of PKS's political education practices and highlights challenges to be addressed to strengthen the party's political identity approaching the 2024 Legislative Election, with a specific emphasis on qualitative research methods as the analytical approach.

The ethnocratic shikun: housing discourse in support of nation-building

ABSTRACT This research critically analyses the Israeli housing block (‘shikun’) discourse, as presented in cultural representations during 1948–1961, and its contribution to the evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The study argues that the discursive exclusion of the shikun from Israel's socio-political history of planning and development is a central part of Israel's ethnocracy and has an essential role in exacerbating the conflict. It maintains that the shikun's exclusion is a reduction of its consequences, namely the Mizrahi population's dispersion through the shikun, which stands as one of the main foundations of the Israeli ethnocratic regime. Subsequently, I identify the shikun anew as the ‘ethnocratic shikun’, and suggest that it can be a better conceptualisation to reveal how ethnic oppression, by discursive and architectural means, affects national land regimes, and thereby exacerbating regional violent conflicts. This research has two main goals. First, achieving a better understanding of Israeli society and politics by delving into a crucial component of human existence – housing, and analysing its ‘disappearance’ from public debates regarding the Middle-Eastern geopolitics. Second, the research aspires to make a methodological contribution that goes beyond Israeli housing discourse, by adding another novel layer to the Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis.

When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China

ABSTRACT Gender quotas have a long history in China, with the earliest gender quota introduced in 1933 in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) border regions. Yet, research on China’s gender quotas has been scarce. This study addresses the gap by examining the process of gender quota adoption in China’s subnational Party-States and the People’s Congresses. Using an institutional approach, we argue that quota adoption in China was a process of ‘institutional layering’ that lasted from the late 1980s to the 2010s. During this process, domestic actors contested the CCP’s existing personnel rules and strategically exploited the CCP’s ideological commitment to gender equity and its need for an improved international image during the second wave of global gender quota adoption. Two changes have happened during the ‘layering’ process: the slow diversification of domestic actors, including both state and non-state ones, and the shifting of the actors’ working strategy from an informal and network-based approach to an institutionalized one that operated through formal channels. In so doing, this article expands the comparative literature on gender quotas, which has been preoccupied with quotas in elected parliaments, and enriches our understanding of Chinese politics.

Should we sell arms to human rights violators? What the public thinks

ABSTRACT Arms-exporting countries – even those that are liberal democracies – sell weapons to governments that violate human rights. Does the public support the provision of weapons to human rights violators? We examine public attitudes on arms exports through a survey experiment in Israel – a major arms exporter that is often criticized for arming repressive governments. Our analysis finds that human rights violations substantially increase the public’s opposition to the sale of arms – by 21 percentage points. Furthermore, opposition to the arms sale arises even when the recipient country carries economic or strategic importance. Overall, we find a public preference for arms exports constrained by ethical concerns – a preference that is often at odds with governments’ export practice. This study enhances our understanding of the domestic politics of the arms trade, which has received little scholarly attention, but increases in importance with rising public scrutiny and criticism of arms sales.

Символическая политика (в) Российской империи: состояние теоретического и историографического поля

The article discusses the study of the symbolic politics in the Russian Empire in national historiography over the past two decades. The author examines the theoretical foundations of research, terminology, and charac-teristics of various political science approaches, arguing that these tools can be applied to historical studies of the long 19th century. These approaches help reframe the issues of cultural memory and commemorations, signifi-cantly expanding the source base for research and deepening our understanding of political and cultural process-es within the Empire. An analysis of Russian historiography over the last two decades reveals a shift in research strategies for this issue, driven by the integration of foreign approaches to cultural memory into Russian academ-ia. Through the use of various reference works as examples, the author describes the process of heuristic transi-tion from a narrow understanding of symbolic politics as a minor component of the political process, to the idea of its versatility, multi-actor nature, and interconnectedness with cultural, national, and social issues. The final part of the article analyzes a monograph by Russian historian Ekaterina Boltunova relevant to this topic. By pre-senting an example of using political science and the “mixed” approach of R. Wortman, the book clearly demon-strates the prospects for studying the symbolic aspects of autocratic power’s activities in connection with a wide range of issues of the national and cultural policies of the Empire.

In Different Languages 2.0

For several years, the European Union has been trying to integrate the categories of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘geopolitics’ in its discourse. At first glance, this could help Russia and the EU bring closer their understandings of world politics. However, the result is the opposite.

Multi-Dimension Framework for Global Education System

In today’s growing interconnected and rapidly evolving world, where all aspects of human life are interdependent, a broader understanding of cultures, economies, politics, and social issues is required. Considering the importance of education role in this issue, diverse traditional education systems around the world have resulted in fragmented approaches that fall short in preparing individuals for the complexities of an interlinked global society. To this end, it is necessary to provide a new innovative education model that adapts to and integrates evolving socio-economic and technological dimensions. This paper presents a great vision of a comprehensive framework for a dynamic global education system leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies such as artificial intelligence to interconnect economic, social, cultural, technological, and well-being dimensions aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thereby facilitates equitable access to quality education and aspires to transcend conventional boundaries leading to foster holistic development and global collaboration.