Social media plays a major role in the dissemination of misinformation. Although social networking sites (SNS) largely differ in their functionality and appearances, and therefore their ability to serve as misinformation vector, researchers have rarely systematically compared different SNS to investigate platform-specific effects beyond Facebook and Twitter. This study tries to address this lack of...
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In this paper we explore internet marketing and fake news production as new media content regimes based on audience profiling. We undertook a field study of the content enterprises from Veles Macedonia and understood the organic mechanics of fake news production. The deep-seated problem that we identified was the instrumentalisation of content for political and...
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This paper provides a comparative analysis of how highly differentiated regions of Russia perform in terms of economic development, public services delivery and overall quality of governance while linking these factors to levels of political support for the current incumbent during the latest presidential electoral campaign in 2018. It introduces the subnational Good Governance Rank...
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Starting from party literature in the post-communist context, the paper aims to analyze several dimensions of party-state linkage in Romania: 1. the dependence of political parties on public subsidies and impact of regulation; 2. the share of public subsidies in the total budget of political parties by examining their revenues collected in recent years and...
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At the beginning of 2017 massive protests took place on the streets of the biggest cities in Romania, unprecedented in the post-communist history of the country. They were caused by a decree passed by the government, which was meant to decriminalize certain offences, including politicians’ abuse of office. The political situation and the protests came...
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Despite broad recognition that the transformations of globalization have markedly impacted corruption within and among countries, there remains no clear understanding of where the balance for control of corruption stands today. This article reviews existing scholarship on how globalization relates to corruption, identifying trends and drawing attention to gaps to be addressed by the contemporary...
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