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Letting Politics not Pass Unnoticed: A Comparative Analysis of the 'Hybrid' Concepts in Latour and McLuhan Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In popular discourse, "politics" are often counterposed to "media" as a separate realm of activities, rituals, rules and person(alitie)s, of which media render a more or less truthful "image." Still media themselves are heavily politically charged, as media studies evidence. What is more, "politics" exceed their commonly assigned boundaries of law-proposing and rule-making by far, in governing the world of science and technical artifacts just as ...
Data usage in quantitative comparative politics Universiteit Antwerpen
The quantitative study of comparative politics is often described as a data-driven enterprise. Employing an original dataset of comparative politics articles published in leading academic journals between 1989 and 2007, this article offers the first empirical analysis of data usage in comparative research. Tracing potential biases induced by data dependence, it assesses the structure of quantitative comparative research (by year, research ...
Kurdish nationalists, Turkey's left and Kurdistan revolutionaries: a comparative approach to studying the PKK and dissident politics in Turkey Universiteit Gent
This paper aims to develop the literature on the PKK, employing a comparative approach to discuss the emergence of the party against the background of dissident politics in Turkey during the 1970s. Distinguishing between two political groupings, referred to as U+2018Kurdish nationalistU+2019 and (TurkeyU+2019s) U+2018revolutionary leftU+2019, We will argue that rather than originating from the Kurdish nationalists (as might be assumed), the PKK ...
The Politics of Policy Design and Implementation: A Comparative Study of Two Belgian Service Voucher Programs KU Leuven
© 2015 The Editor, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. Abstract: When two policy programs, identical in many important respects, are implemented in the same national context, similar program results would be expected. If this is not the case, an explanation is needed. In this article two Belgian voucher programs are compared: one for household services and one for childcare services. The first program was termed a ...