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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
Consociational Electoral Engineering Revisited: Findings from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Does nationalism continue to determine elections in consociational political arrangements even long after the conflict? To examine the presumed reduction of nationalism in divided societies through consociationalism, this article tests the impact of ethnicity on the relative success of non-nationalist political parties. Using an original dataset from the local elections...
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying Topics in the Romanian Media
The following study uses qualitative analysis to identify the main anti-Jewish and Holocaust denial themes used in Romanian media. The hypothesis of the analysis is that even in modern societies freedom of expression is limited, particularly when it comes to messages which incite hate or which urge for discriminatory actions....