Political Communication - Science topic

This entry explores the concept of "popularity indicators"(PI), defined as aggregated metrics that represent user engagement and interaction with online content, including actions such as liking, sharing, or commenting. PI provide insights into how users perceive and evaluate content, shape the selection decisions of platform algorithms, and indire...

This study analyzes the use of persuasive language in candidate pair name abbreviations as a political branding strategy in the 2024 regent and deputy regent elections in Indonesia. A netnographic approach was employed to examine digital interactions on social media, online news platforms, and campaign platforms, with data collected from January to...

This study aims to analyze the role of new media in political communication in the Society 5.0 era, focusing on the effectiveness of digital platforms such as social media in facilitating interaction between politicians and the public. Using a qualitative method with a library research approach, data was collected from various literature and analyz...

This research examines the principles of qaulan maysura in Gus Iqdam's lectures through the Tafsir Asy-Sya'rawi approach, with a focus on its relevance and application in contemporary da'wah. Qaulan maysura or "gentle words" is a communication ethic recommended in the Koran, which emphasizes the importance of gentleness, friendliness and ease in co...

European countries have been important supporters of Ukraine since the 2022 invasion by Russia. Responding to the invasion, however, was not the only challenge facing these countries in 2022. A tough domestic economic situation caused by high inflation and skyrocketing energy prices gave rise to public resentment accusing governments of favoring Uk...

The research examines the utilization of new media in political communication by Georgia’s main opposition party, the United National Movement, and the ruling party, the Georgian Dream. Through a comparative analysis of the new media strategies employed by these two parties, the study explores their political communication approaches and the prevai...

Politics creates its own rhetoric on a national or less important issue and in accordance with this central rhetoric other exponents of politics and government build their own rhetoric, which they then cast as postulates in their social circles and in media. Meanwhile, the information which is transmitted does not go beyond the framework of predete...

This paper presents a novel dataset of public broadcast interviews featuring high-ranking German politicians. The interviews were sourced from YouTube, transcribed, processed for speaker identification, and stored in a tidy and open format. The dataset comprises 99 interviews with 33 different German politicians across five major interview formats,...

The swift advancement of social media technologies has profoundly reshaped the political and economic landscape of the United States, with platforms such as Twitter and Facebook exerting substantial influence. Social media have not only transformed traditional modes of political communication, but have also restructured the structure of the economy...

Social networks have a wider influence on youth political participation, providing the opportunity to remain actively engaged in socio-political issues aiming for good governance in Indonesia. The study highlights the pertinent role of social networks, social ties, and trends in increasing participation among youngsters in Indonesia’s political sph...

Is anything in common between Nehru’s, Indira’s, Gandhi’s and Modi’s communication strategy? All the four political leaders have been taller than the parties they led. All of them dominated the political discourses of their times. All of them used main stream media of their times to pitch their policy decisions. All of them made iconic fashion stat...

This article explores communication theory and communication ethics guidelines from a Quranic perspective. The terms qaulan bligha, qaulan Maisyuro qaulan karima, qaulan ma'rufa, qaulan layyinan, and qaulan sadida are some of the unique terms used in the Quran to explain the principles of communication. Thus, the definition of communication in the...

This study seeks to learn how viewing political communications with varying attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion affects the intention to vote in the next election. The investigation examines voting disparities by considering power imbalances in political communications. It features a randomized experiment with 416 individuals (ages 18 to...

This study explores the evolving dynamics of social media research in Malaysia. The main objective is to identify trends and patterns in research, specifically examining the volume and focus of scholarly articles over the last decade. Using bibliometric analysis and topic modelling, the study identifies major research clusters and key themes like d...

Peru’s 2021 general elections, held on Sunday, April 11, unfolded amidst an unusual context. Apart from coinciding with the commemoration of the nation’s bicentennial and involving eighteen candidates, the electoral process was marked by profound political turmoil and the COVID‐19 pandemic. In particular, the implementation of social distancing mea...

El trabajo analiza el uso que ha realizado VOX de los medios de comunicación de pago desde su primera campaña en abril de 2014 hasta la actualidad (con cierre a 31 de diciembre de 2021). El objetivo es conocer el uso que hace el partido político de los diferentes medios de comunicación, cuantificar que medios utiliza y analizar que mensajes lanza a...

This entry explores the phenomenon of fictional populism-individuals creating and performing made-up characters to run in real-life elections, employing satire to critique politics. The concept is connected to celebrity populism, blending attractive elements of populism with popular style and celebrity politics. Using the illustrative cases, it is...

This entry focuses on media criticism as a political communication strategy. Specifically, it argues that while media criticism is neither new nor bad per se, political actors increasingly use it strategically to pursue specific goals. It first defines media criticism and explains its democratic function. It introduces the concept of delegitimizing...

Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2025), edited by Alessandro Nai, Max Grömping and Dominique Wirz. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Accepted version. ABSTRACT Peripheral media actors are individuals and organisations who work outside the boundaries of traditional journalism while still being part of a broader media/communication ecolo...

Accepted Version. Please cite as: Thomeczek, J. Philipp (2025), Valence Issues. In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing. Accepted version. The following entry defines valence issues, discusses their differentiation from position issues and addresses the framework's weakness...

Political activities on social media are subject both to the constraints and potentials of the functionalities, structures and operating systems of such platforms. Increasingly, these constraints and potentials are studied with the concept of affordances. Often, affordances are confused with features of technologies and with the effects of using th...

Mobile instant messaging services such as WhatsApp or Telegram have enabled new possibilities for the reconfiguration of democracy. Despite their popularisation, there is still limited research analysing the role of citizenship on these digital platforms in relation to politics. Therefore, our objective is to analyse citizens’ use of mobile instant...

Oser, Jennifer. 2025. "Political Efficacy." In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing. Accepted version. ABSTRACT: A fundamental question asked in early survey-based political communication research is whether people feel that their political actions can affect political proc...

The entry discusses insights into the role of social media engagement with political actors. First, it outlines the strategic role that user engagement plays in contemporary politics. User engagement with politicians' posts can increase the visibility of messages. As a result, politicians strive to produce content that has been shown to generate mo...

Mediatization refers to a societal transformation wherein mass media increasingly influence and shape other societal spheres, such as the political sphere. Central to mediatization is the concept of media logic(s), which relates to specific criteria in the selection, production, and distribution of news. Mediatization of politics not only suggests...

The advancement of information technology and evolving political dynamics have significantly changed how young people engage in politics. This study focuses on investigating the influence of social media usage and political trust on the political involvement of Generation Z and Millennials in the 2024 election in Padang City. The research, utilizin...

The purpose of this entry is to introduce readers to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and explore its value in the study of political communication. The entry will start by defining CDA and outlining some of its most prominent approaches and key theorists (e.g. Ruth Wodak). It will then detail the theoretical underpinnings and key tenets of CDA, f...

Framing effects describe the influence of the way information is presented on people's interpretation and perception of specific issues. This entry provides an overview of cognitive, attitudinal, affective, and behavioral framing effects in political communication research. First, framing effects are distinguished from frame building based on frami...

Editorial para el monográfico "Lobbies, think tanks y propaganda: ideas y comunicación al servicio del poder". Las formas para conseguir y/o influir en el poder a través de la comunicación son variadas. La propaganda es uno de los fenómenos comunicativos que, desde la más remota antigüedad (Pizarroso Quintero, 1993), funciona como una herramienta a...

Digitalization has increased the visibility of political communication processes in unprecedented ways with great opportunities for communication research. Computational approaches offer opportunities (but also risks) to capture the quality and quantity of such digital communication data. This chapter discusses how computational approaches can not...

Online news engagement can be defined in terms of news use (what content is used for how long and through which channel) and in terms of interaction with news (liking, commenting, sharing). News producers increasingly rely on both types of audience metrics to optimize their products. Political communication researchers study the predictors and cons...

Developments across multiple countries and regions in the past decades have underlined the extraordinary significance of the phenomenon of polarization, also with regard to a diminished social coherence and trust, democratic quality and governability. This entry provides an overview of the different types, drivers and locales of polarization and it...

As social media became more and more popular around the globe in late 2010, new theories were developed to theorize their effects on political activism and the ways through which social movements had been transformed. Connective action is a theoretical concept offered to understand the transformation of political activism in the age of digital medi...

This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicians. With an international team of expert authors, t...

Immigration has developed into a salient issue in political communication. Since many citizens do not have first-hand experiences with immigration (actors), citizens often rely on news and elite discourse on immigration as an information source. This makes both elements highly influential in shaping public opinion about immigration, rendering in-de...

The issue of political dynasties has increasingly emerged in democratic systems, including in Indonesia. The political dynasty of Jokowi's family is interesting to analyze as it demonstrates how political communication can be strategically implemented in building a positive image and gaining broad public support. This research aims to examine how J...

This study aims to capture the variations in rhetorical patterns and language functions in the context of political communication of the members of the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia (Dewan Perwakilan Daerah Republik Indonesia/DPD RI) for the 2019-2024 period and the implications of this rhetoric for public policy in I...

This research examines the transformation of political communication strategies in the digital era, specifically the use of Instagram by Tegal Regency's candidate Regents in the 2024 Regional Election. The high social media penetration in Indonesia, with 97% of Instagram users actively interacting, creates new opportunities and challenges in region...

This study examines the intersection of gender, language, and politics in media representations of Buddhist monks in Thailand. Analyzing 56 lead news articles from The Nation online newspaper published between 2013 and 2023, the research employs multiple theoretical frameworks including Gendered Language Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Framing...

Presidential candidate debates play an important role in the campaign by becoming an arena for brainstorming and complex communication strategies. This research uses a pragmatic perspective to understand the dynamics of language in presidential debates, uncover the implicit meaning behind the candidates' speeches, and identify rhetorical strategies...

This study examines the political awareness and perceptions of Generation Z members of the Australia-Indonesia Youth Association (AIYA) Yogyakarta through TikTok. It focuses on the phenomenon of Gen Z, often seen as politically indifferent, whose awareness is influenced by political content on TikTok. Using a qualitative approach, data were collect...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine occurred on February 24, 2022, followed by an information war that occurred on social media. Ukraine, which is inferior in terms of the number of weapons compared to Russia, certainly took advantage of this momentum to win the information war circulating on social media. Therefore, the narrative, in the form of persuasi...

This article considers how Hannah Arendt’s understanding of human dignity comes to terms with two of the most significant controversies in contemporary human rights discourse, while also providing a sound basis for the application of the term. By focusing on the right to membership in a political community, Arendt’s understanding of human dignity r...

Considering the problem of reconstruction of the experience of horizontalization of social relations, in the context of social and urban crisis of our days, the objective is to raise theoretical-conceptual reflections on the transition from a single thought to universal consciousness, on the way to the supposed new demographic period of story. Ther...

Jokowi's role and involvement in supporting Prabowo began before the Prabowo-Gibran pair's nomination in the 2024 presidential election. Allegations of presidential campaign violations were also directed at Jokowi when he showed his support for the pair, likewise with Jokowi's other actions that are full of interest. This descriptive qualitative ap...

Recognizing the influence of mass media on voter and audience decisions, television hasemerged as an essential instrument for political campaigns. Following the AK Party’s emergence in Turkish politics, television advertisements became a more prominent tool in political campaigns. In the study, the Roadblocking Method, which is the advertising camp...

Lamark and Darwin, over the past centuries, have helped us to understand that the world of living, Lebenswelt, is a collection of unaccomplished. In Greek philosophy, incompleteness is the fundamental trait of everything that happens and, by happening, can be known, and distinguished, in its happening. Therefore, in every living being, to the feeli...

La ciudad de Núremberg fue un centro político fundamental en el imperio bajomedieval. Además de ser una urbe privilegiada por los emperadores germánicos, debido a su enorme peso comercial, era también un centro de comunicaciones importantísimo que conectaba los cuatro puntos cardinales del reino. En los siglos XIV y XV era importante tomar la tempe...

This systematic review and meta-analysis examine the impact of social media on political participation. It explores whether social media functions merely as an echo chamber for pre-existing beliefs or as a dynamic tool for political engagement. Sixteen studies, involving 33,257 participants, were selected and synthesized after applying inclusion cr...

Power and community are among the key issues concerning human social life, and both hold significant importance from theoretical and practical perspectives. In the philosophical reflections of ancient Greeks these issues emerged as central themes in considerations on humans and the state. They placed particular emphasis on the unique nature of huma...

This paper argues that there is not a human right to the Internet. It presents five commonly made arguments for a human right to the Internet, and it shows how they all fail. This paper approaches the discussion from a position that holds human rights as instrumentally necessary things for membership in a political community and goes on to argue th...

This research analyzes the political discourse of tweets made by Montenegrin politicians on the platform www.X.com (formerly Twitter). Given that one of the most prominent political topics during the first 100 days of the 44th Government of Montenegro was EU integration, this study seeks to interpret the views and beliefs of politicians on the subj...

Media are said to set the public agenda. However, the actual scenario of a public agenda among the Malay and Chinese communities in Malaysia has yet to be ascertained. This study employs both content analysis and survey to examine media and public agenda of two major ethnic groups during the 2008 General Elections. In total, 9,135 news items, relat...

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo general analizar los elementos que destacan en la publicidad política de los candidatos a la presidencia e identificar si éstos tenían relación con el partido político que lo publicó. Se realizó un análisis de contenido a los spots presentados durante la campaña presidencial de 2018, y se encontró que el esti...

This report presents a discourse analysis of a televised interview between an anchorwoman and Dr. Anthony Fauci, contextualized within the COVID-19 pandemic and its management under President Trump's administration. Employing frameworks from Goffman, Harris, and other key scholars, the analysis explores the interplay of linguistic and non-linguisti...

This study examines the use of mitigation devices-specifically, hedges, euphemisms, and parenthetical verbs-in the speeches of Philippine presidents to reveal how linguistic strategies shape political discourse. Through a detailed political discourse analysis, this research identifies the critical functions of these devices in moderating assertions...

In the context of the process of transitional justice of South Africa, this paper focus on the non-legal character of commissions as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to demonstrate their political character, and verify that they fit in perfectly in the exceptionality of the historical moment that is experienced by a political community in a...

This study analyses audience sentiment toward the program "LIVE - Anies and Efek Kejut di Pilkada Jakarta | ROSI" on KompasTV's YouTube channel to understand public perception in digital discourse. Using a descriptive-exploratory approach, data consisting of 1,742 comments were collected via web scraping with Python and processed through preprocess...

This paper explores how online news outlets in Indonesia have covered the "Peringatan Darurat Garuda Biru" movement. By employing a corpus-assisted discourse analysis (CADS), the study examines how language and media framing subtly direct blame toward the DPR and the Jokowi administration for the perceived democratic backsliding and manipulations o...

The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to the increased role on the world stage of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese political leaders. The purpose of this article is to disclose by means of a detailed analysis the New Year congratulations not only of the linguistic portrait of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, but also the main...

The advent of social media has fundamentally transformed the landscape of political discourse and public opinion. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube have become essential tools for political communication, offering unprecedented opportunities for individuals, political actors, and organizations to share information, mobiliz...

The increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in political campaigns has introduced significant advancements in voter engagement and campaign strategies, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. However, this development also raises complex ethical concerns that challenge the integrity of democratic processes. This stu...

Affective polarization is on the rise. Increasing polarization is often attributed to the nature of political discussion on social media platforms, but little is known about the affective consequences of the incivility of online discussion. This study adopts a trust game to consider whether people punish the incivility of both out-partisans and co-...

This study focuses on the pragmatic analysis of selected speeches made by some governors on Workers’ Day Celebration in Nigeria. The study aimed to identify and analyze the pragmatic features of the speeches and to establish how these features reveal the governors’ intentions. Purposive sampling method was used to select and transcribe two recorded...

Variables affecting the use of social networking sites by political candidates in the Kingdom of Bahrain in electoral propaganda . Abdel Azim Gamal Ebrahim (Ph.D.) University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. Email: gazim@uob.edu.bh Sarg Enas Mosad (Ph.D.) Kingdom of Bahrain Email: drenassarg@hotmail.com Abstract The past twenty years have witnessed...

The popular microblogging platform known as Twitter has become a legitimate and frequently used communication channel in the Malaysian political arena. While the 2008 Malaysian general election was notable for the use of social media by the opposition parties during their campaigns, the 2013 general election saw a level playing field in which the B...

This study aims to analyze the local political dynamics in the village head election and to identify the rhetorical practices of the village head candidates in terms of ethos (credibility), pathos (emotional appeal), and logos (capacity and competence), which shape public opinion. A qualitative case study method was employed, involving participant...

The media inclination towards pro-Americanism and anti-Americanism is not a new phenomenon because being a superpower, the United States is one of those nations who has been facing acute image problem since World War II. It is the media which plays an influential role in constructing and depicting the foreign images. So, this paper aims at analyzin...

Iran and Ottoman Empire, as two great powers with historical civilizations had mutual relationships for a long time. The constitutional era is of great importance in Iran-Ottoman foreign relations. The objective of the present study is to identify and assess the influences of political, social, economic and cultural conditions in Iran and the Ottom...

The Sasak Tribe community on Lombok Island is part of a community that has high social relations, especially in terms of kinship and friendship that is always established in every level of society. One of the favorite zones of the Sasak people to strengthen social relations is to gather in one of the typical buildings that have a fairly high cultur...

Artículo presentado para la Primera Edición de la Revista Digital "Voces Cecompol" de Centro de Estudios en Comunicación Política (CECOMPOL) de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo (UNT).

Constitution as the highest legal and political document in any political community is the regulator of all matters and affairs and specifies moderate relations between authorities. Commitment to the implementation of this important law closes the doors and possibilities of dictatorship and guarantees human dignity and individuals’ sanctity and fre...

Reseña de Imogen Choi. The Epic Mirror. Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru, Woodbridge, Tamesis Books, 2022, 229 pp.ISBN 978-1-85566-347-3

This research analyzes the communication strategies on TikTok of the candidates for the presidency of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa and Luisa González, during the second round of elections in 2023. The research question focused on how these strategies influenced audience visibility and engagement. The methodology used was mixed, combining qualitative and q...

Populism is a transnational phenomenon that considered as a substantial factor behind the re-orientation of global politics. This article suggests that the qualitative nature of the rhetorical structure employed by different political leaders ostensibly influences their respective political communication. From the perspective of populist communicat...

This study deals with everyday life in Gabriela Massuh’s La intemperie in the context of post-2001 Argentina. The rupture of everyday life produced by this circumstance allows us to observe the mechanisms of dehumanisation and exclusion that capitalist Modernity (understood as biopower) uses for its systematic “purge” of the political community of...

The article problematizes the functioning, on the one hand, of traditional value-normative regulators, ensuring socio-cultural integrity and social and political dynamics, and on the other, the development of standards for the development and application of digital algorithms, autonomous robotic systems and artificial intelligence. It discusses var...

The article discusses the influence of systemic changes occurring in Europe in the interwar period on the evolution of the notion of democracy in the Polish politico-legal thought. The analysis of works then created in the Polish scientific and political communities demonstrated the fact that the awareness of the crisis of parliamentary cabinet sys...

If we sum up the tasks facing the Russian state in relation to the young generation, then all of them are associated with its harmonious inclusion in the social and political development of the country. At the normative level, the current need is declared for young people to form active citizenship and democratic political culture, which is possibl...

Football is the most popular sport in the world, involving many people, from players, club officials, federation administrators in each country, the media, and also supporters consisting of various backgrounds. In some countries, even football also involves politicians and political parties. Because it involves many people and also many media, it i...

This paper examines Omar El Akkad’s novel American War to highlight climate and war refugees as a “ghosted community” strategically placed within what Rob Nixon terms a “space of amnesia,” and to later configure a mirror of otherness able to return to the political community a predication of its homogeneity. Then, as nation-state-centred discourses...

This research explores the effectiveness of MongoDB in facilitating sentiment analysis on YouTube comments related to the 2024 Indonesian Gubernatorial Election. The study meticulously collected 40,396 comments through the YouTube Data API, which were subsequently narrowed down to 27,102 relevant comments after a comprehensive preprocessing process...

A abordagem une estudos da linguagem troll de extrema direita à semiótica discursiva, passando por uma investigação do conceito freudiano do infamiliar, examinando como a extrema direita busca esvaziar os signos do campo progressista por meio da estratégia de inversão estético-discursiva. O infamiliar opera, nesses casos, a partir do regime imitati...

The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo or is popularly known as Jokowi, a political figure who utilizes political symbols in various situations. In many of his political manoeuvres, he has been using implied symbols. The study used literature study method applied to compare data from several global journals, which are summarized ba...

Social media has transformed political communication by making it easy to post and free to disseminate information. Interest groups can use social media platforms to direct messages to policymakers and to educate the public about their issues. By providing a platform that can be used by groups regardless of their size or resources, social media exp...

El actual debate sobre la construcción social del género ha ganado un peso indiscutible en la producción académica de los últimos años. De grandes ausentes de la historiografía en general, las mujeres han adquirido relevancia como objeto de investigación y tienen cada vez más presencia en los libros de Historia de todos los períodos, incluido el qu...

This article offers an interpretation of a certain narrative about the political community which can be found in Pol., III 10, 1286b7-21; IV 10, 1297b16-28; and VI 4, 1321a5-16. According to this narrative, the monarchical regime prevailed in most political communities at first, whereas later, in Aristotle's time, it was the democratic regime which...

This paper presents the TikTok 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Dataset, a large-scale, resource designed to advance research into political communication and social media dynamics. The dataset comprises 3.14 million videos published on TikTok between November 1, 2023, and October 16, 2024, encompassing video ids and transcripts. Data collection was...

This study employs bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the research landscape in political advertising from 1972 to 2022. Drawing on a dataset of 668 papers from the Scopus database, the analysis utilizes the VOSviewer program to examine various facets of political advertising literature. Key findings include the dominance...

Benson, Rodney. “Media Ownership.” In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Ed.) (forthcoming 2025). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Media ownership refers to the legal and economic control of media organizations. Ownership of news media organizations is particularly important, given its potential...

This study analyzes the use of euphemisms in the debate of the 2024 Indonesian presidential candidates. Candidates used euphemisms to discuss sensitive issues such as corruption, human rights, and social inequality without causing conflict or harming certain parties. Using a qualitative approach, data were taken from the transcript of the debate br...

This article applies a critical perspective to provisions of Ireland’s Online Safety and Media Regulation (OSMR) Act which may undermine the right to freedom of expression. This article narrows its focus to specific provisions of this legislation which may be used to restrict access to harmful—but potentially legal—online communications. Special fo...

The aim of this article is to present and discuss the creation process of the Oceanic Circuits database, centred on the mapping and analysis of petitions sent from Portuguese America to the Conselho Ultramarino (Overseas Council) and the Secretário de Estado da Marinha e do Ultramar (Secretary of State of the Navy and Overseas Territories) between...

Artykuł przedstawia perswazję polityczną w ujęciu psychologii społecznej. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono dwóm strategiom wpływu: wieloznaczności przekazów politycznych oraz stronniczemu narzucaniu ram interpretacji zagadnień politycznych. Przedstawione zostały typologie tych strategii i ich przykłady. Celem ich prezentacji jest edukacja od-biorców kom...

The workings of culturally influenced language indicators in political mass media are revealed in this essay. The way that culturally marked linguistic signs are used in political conversation has some quirks that enable them to accomplish the objectives that political communication sets. The political communication tasks, on the one hand, determin...

In the field of Political Communication, one of the most important tasks is the management of information, it is known that information is power and more so if it is about transmitting information for the creation of messages that may be able to identify with an electoral public, which then leads this to the decision of the voters. Hence, political...

The concept of citizenship has been considered inappropriate and inconvenient as a foundation for the realisation of rights and inclusion in political communities in changing global contexts. However, the work argues that the concept should not be abolished but rather updated and rehabilitated to meet current political demands and promote equality....

En programas televisivos matinales, los políticos recurren al humor como elemento para acercarse a eventuales votantes y en sus intervenciones diarias incluyen aspectos jocosos. Sin embargo, las audiencias no siempre reciben bien estos comentarios, insistiendo en que la función pública debiera presentarse según cánones serios, acordes a la integrid...

Este artículo estudia el litigio por las tierras de Navenchave. Apas y Puehtic entre los mayas tzotziles del “común” de Zinacantán y el alcalde de la República de Indios Cristóbal Arias. El pleito se desarrolla en el proceso de composiciones de tierras en la provincia de Chiapa y en el Reino de Guatemala a finales del siglo XVI y principios del sig...