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Quantitative Content Analysis of Communication Patterns on Facebook: A Case Study of the Croatian Government

Author(s): Mato Brautović,Romana John,Iva Milanović-Litre / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2013

In the process of involving citizens more deeply in the democratic process, Facebook is becoming an increasingly important tool for governments in policy making. Facebook has the potential to increase political participation, but many governments fail to use it in the right way, because they just share information online and do not engage with their followers/citizens. This paper shows how the Croatian government is using Facebook and the communication patterns resulting from their work. The quantitative analysis of 20,546 posts and 52,311 comments show that communication is one way, rather than interactive. Government users do not follow the 90-9-1- rule of thumb for social networks.

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Profiling Twitter Activists: The Protests Against the Republic of Croatia’s Government

Author(s): Mato Brautović / Language(s): English Issue: 05/2012

Twitter s a social network and a microblogging service. Examples from Iran, Tunisia and Egypt have shown the possibilities of using Twitter as a platform for activism. This research looks at the manner in which Croatian activists use this tool and how such users and uses are distinct from average users. This paper establishes that activist users differ vastly from average Twitter users. Activist users have a significantly higher number of friends and followers. An increase in the number of friends leads to an increase in the number of followers (and vice versa). In addition, activist users publish a large number of posts regardless of their follower number, even though that number is significantly higher than that of friends. Activist users forward interesting information more often, while they disregard Twitter as a tool for conversation or coordination. Still, activist users and average users are similar in regard to the poster’s profile and posting quantity. Both categories of users follow the power-law distribution.

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Community justice – rekonstrukcja założeń i krytyka pewnego modelu polityki karnej

Author(s): Stanisław Burdziej / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The article attempts to reconstruct basic assumptions of community justice – an emerging paradigm of penal policy that is gaining popularity in Western Europe and the US. The model assumes an empowerment of citizens in matters related to criminal justice, including various forms of public participation, aimed at reclaiming conflicts thus far appropriated by professionals and institutions. The article discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of this “democratization” of penal policy.

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Prawo do samostanowienia a kurdyjskie ruchy narodowościowe i ich status na arenie międzynarodowej

Author(s): Magdalena El Ghamari / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

Kurdish state does not exist on any official map of the world. After all, for years the Kurds are fighting to not just treat them as a nation, but accept their aspirations to their own territory. Research interests and taking political science issues related to the essence of prey, and the nation is in the context of the situation of the Kurds is extremely important. The essence of any state concept, in spite of their diversity and the differences between them is the fact that the state is the collectivity of citizens, organized a community of people, subordinated sovereign power and living in a particular territory. These three essential elements of the state: territory, separated from the other boundaries within which people are subjected to a single political authority, the community, the people in general, who inhabit the territory, and who share a bond based on political power are inextricably linked, and without them it is difficult to talk about the possibility of the existence of the state. The nation is the people who are bound in the great unity of the force, which is nationality. State and people interact. This process can be described as nation-building role of the state and as a nation state-building role. Presenting problems attributes of the European approach to „the state and the nation” in relation to Kurdistan and the Kurdish nation has a contribution to further consider the research and attempt to answer the question – Is the State of Kurdistan and its people, is able to exhaust the catalog of the conditions necessary to create your own space earth.

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Wyzwania komunikacyjne Unii Europejskiej

Author(s): Konrad Niklewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

In order to help rebuilding popular support and trust towards the European Union, EU’s institutions need to substantially change their communication strategy. Recent political developments, especially 2016 Britain’s referendum on the EU Membership, have shown that the old model of reaching to citizens no longer meets expectations. Drawing on available data and ex-post evaluations of promotional campaigns, this article examines possible ways of enhancing the way EU connects to citizens. The paper concludes that the focus should be shifted from mediated communication to a more direct one, including massive use of online social platforms and corporate-style promotional campaigns. The EU’s own experiences confirm the efficiency of the latter.

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Przykłady działań polskich i niemieckich organizatorów publicznego transportu zbiorowego na rzecz partycypacji mieszkańców miast w bieżącym koordynowaniu i zarządzaniu siecią transportu miejskiego

Author(s): Mikołaj J. Tomaszyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

Organisation and management of the public transport is one of the most important tasks of local authorities. Having regard to the dynamically changing conditions of transport policy of modern cities, activities in this area are the challenge of the standardisation of transport offers, match it to the transport needs and expectations of the inhabitants not only individual cities, but the entire metropolitan areas. One of the ways to transport the transport needs matching listings is the current coordinate based on diagnosis and analysis of the reported demands. In a much broader context of information policy and public operators of public transport is part of the modern management of urban areas and meets the demands of the smart city concept. In addition, the openness of the entities responsible for the management of urban transport is an example of deliberation methods to support local authorities in the management of the city. The author takes on the activity of the managing entities responsible for public transport for citizens participation in the functional areas: Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Leipzig and Stuttgart.

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Status ustrojowy władzy wykonawczej w Belgii

Author(s): Elżbieta Kużelewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Belgium is a founding member of the European Union (EU). It is a trilingual federation, consisting of four different entities constituted on the basis of language. The linguistic groups within the Belgian population have had a long history of conflict. For many years, tensions between the French and Dutch speaking areas have been ameliorated through the principle of “territoriality.” The application of this principle resulted in the division of the country into three areas: the Flemish Region (the Dutchspeaking region in the north), the Walloon Region (the French-speaking region in the south) and the Brussels-Capital Region (officially bilingual but predominantly francophone). In each of those areas, only one language has official status, and the speakers of other national languages residing there have no linguistic rights. The principle of territoriality has resolved some tensions between the linguistic groups by guaranteeing linguistic rights within geographic boundaries, yet it has not fully resolved them. The Belgian experience in dealing with a multicultural and multi-linguistic polity will clearly provide valuable insights for other national groups wrestling with the ever-increasing heterogeneity among their linguistic populations. More important in the short term, however, is the ongoing struggle for dominance between French and Dutch speakers within Belgium. The specificity of the Belgian federal system is also reflected in the executive power.

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Remembering the Republic’s Day – the Adhocracy of Recollection. An Internet Based Case Study on Remembering August 23rd

Author(s): Adrian Stoicescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This paper aims at seeing how the memory of a recent event is reactivated in the digital space looking both at what kind of events are recalled, how people feel about such events and what weight they carry when it comes to judge the present times. On the other hand, memory represents only a pretext for the much wider space of remembering. The digital medium hosting the recollection may function as digital place of memory in sense that not only does it enable a special type of communication between the exhibit and the viewer, but at the same time since it enables the interaction among the participant to the process of memory in the making. Furthermore, the digital site of memory co-hosts two conjoint types of profane rituals, that is the ritual of remembering and that of digitally displaying such memories.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-Russian Journalist Found Guilty of Extremism

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 08/15/2017

Prosecutors said Aleksandr Sokolov and three other accused ex-People’s Will Army members wanted to bring down the government.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-East European Hackers Face Extradition to U.S.

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 08/15/2017

Romania’s ‘Guccifer’ accuses U.S. intelligence of breaking into Democratic Party computers amid tumultuous 2016 presidential campaign.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-Czech Government Agrees to Buy Roma Holocaust Site

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 08/29/2017

The question of Czech responsibility for the wartime treatment of the Roma continues to rankle.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-All Quiet at U.S. Embassy in Moscow as Visa Ban Kicks In

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 08/29/2017

RIA Novosti illustrates its story with photo of big crowd outside embassy, taken last month.

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Sztuka szczególna. O działalności artystycznej Łukasza Surowca

Author(s): Alicja Kosterska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2016

the artistic work of Łukasz Surowiec, homelessness, social exclusion, political change

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RESPECTING EUROPEAN STANDARDS CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTPEOPLE IN POLAND AND IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Author(s): Janusz Jartyś,Marcin Orzechowski / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2016

The LGBT rights are one of the most crucial aspects of a social and political discoursein Poland and in the Russian Federation. Although in both countries there is a different systemof power, and, what follows, human rights and their realization are perceived in a different way,in these two states the right of LGBT people become an instrument of politics. In the followingarticle the authors present a comparative analysis of the way in which the rights of LGBT peopleare perceived in Poland and in the Russian Federation. They will depict the similarities anddifferences between these two countries which result from historical conditions, and will providean analysis of the current perception of non-heterosexual people in Poland and in Russia.

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Političke promene u Jemenu – revolucija kompromisom

Author(s): Marko Gagić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2013

This article analyzes events regarding Yemeni Revolution that was started in February 2011. The main characteristics of Yemeni society are presented in the introduction for better understanding of the events. Analysis of the Revolution itself showed that it was in many ways different from the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Reasons for that are numerous and the most important ones are pointed out and explained. A short review of the present political situation is also given.

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Misir’da Müslüman Kardeşler Hareketinin Demokrasi Anlayişi Ve Sisteme Etkisi

Author(s): Mehmet Dalar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Special/2010

Egypt, seen by global powers like the United States and regional power like Israel as important State in the Middle East region, is a country having a key role position in respect of factors such as solving the Palestinian Israeli dispute, its strategic situation in North Africa region and its location on the major trade routes such as Suez Canal. Any alteration taken place in the political administration of this State having deep rooted historical and cultural heritage, will lead to significant change affecting the global and regional powers beyond to effect in the internal politics. It is estimated that the fundamental alteration, which global and regional powers don‟t accept, will occur in the foreign policy of Egypt in the case that Society of Muslim Brothers (Muslim Brotherhood-MB-) movement gain the power in the country. This study analyzes the effects of MB movement, evaluated as important pro Islamic opposition movement, on the Egypt's political and social structure, and determines its problems concerning participation in political process of Egypt. Also the study analyzes the political thought of MB, its changing activations from date of establishment to present day, its approach to democracy, its relations with the government, its effect in the social and cultural structure of country, its perception towards non Muslim population, its relations with the radical organizations such as Al-Qaeda. How much extend the movement may be effective is evaluated in the study, in the event of case that MB movement become government.

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Irak Kürt Muhalafet Hareketinde Uluslararasi Boyut: 1918-1975 Arasi Dönemin Analizi

Author(s): Ogün Duru / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Special/2010

This article evaluates the effects of regional and non-regional countries on Kurdish movement against its opposition to the central government. It argues that the conditions that lead Kurdish movement emerged, its success in articulating its political demands, and its enforcement on central government to accept and recognise them are to a great extend dependent on the external dynamics. Thus, the article focuses on how the external dynamics reconstructs Kurdish identity, ascends the level of political demands of Kurds, and leads to integration and dispersion of its opposition to the central government. In this context, the scope of the research covers the period between the onset of the British influence in Iraq in 1917, and one of the most important breaking points of the Kurdish movement in 1975.

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İslamci Söylemde Kamusal Alan Tasavvuru: Devletle Tanimlanan Kamusal Alanin Millete Tahvili Ve Kamusal Alanin Reddi

Author(s): Çağla Kubilay / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2009

This research evaluates the public sphere concept in the Islamic discourse within the framework of the turban problem. The Kemalist conception of the public sphere is criticised by the Islamic discourse with regard to lifting turban ban and making it public. The accepted strategy of Islamists, in this context, is to mobilize state-nation antagonism in order to attribute positive connation to the public sphere as the sphere of nation which is controversy to the understanding of Kemalism that defines the public sphere with reference to the state. This research analyses the concept of public sphere emerged from this hegemonic struggles embodied in important sample cases in the turban problem. These cases are assessed by examining columnists‟ in Turkish dailies Yeni Şafak, Yeni Asya, Zaman, Milli Gazete and Anadolu’da Vakit after each case for a period of 15 days.

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Pilietinės Tautos Kūrimas: Galimybės Ir Ribos

Author(s): Vytautas Sinica / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 87/2016

The aim of this article is to assess theoretical justification and practical possibilities of the project of civic nation-building. The study tries to substantiate the claim that civic nation is a form of political self-organisation that is unable to ensure stability of a political entity. Based on ethnosymbolist approach to nationalism studies, concepts of ethnic, civic and political nation are differentiated and their relationship with the concept of civic society defined. The emergence of theoretical distinction of so-called civic and ethnic nations is explained through different historic ways of state consolidation and political nation-building. Theoretical and practical challenges of the civic nation project for a democratically governed political body and it`s stability are considered. Given that civic nationalism not only recognizes all the citizens as members of the political nation, but also assimilates them into the ethnocultural nation, it is concluded that civic nation as a citizens’ loyalty base rooted only in citizenship is doomed to political instability, something confirmed by the infamous experiment of multiculturalism, de facto based on the concept of civic nation-building.

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Ustav Srbije kao ustav totalne pluralističke partijske države

Author(s): Aleksandar Molnar / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2009

In the first section of the paper Carl Schmitt’s concept of a total pluralistic state (totale pluralistische Parteistaat) is reconstructed from various writings of his published in the 1930s. The three principal pillars of a total pluralistic party state are considered: constitutional ethics (based on political myth), party pluralism and the totalitarian aspirations of political parties towards their members and clients in the sphere of civil society. In the second section of the paper all three pillars are identified in the Serbian Constitution of 8 November 2006.

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