Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1515/openps-2022-0146
Thomas Waldvogel, Pascal D. König, Uwe Wagschal, Bernd Becker, Samuel Weishaupt
Abstract How do emotional responses to televised debates impact on voting intention? The present article addresses this question drawing on an original dataset combining survey data and real-time responses gathered in the run-up of the 2017 German federal election. The paper contributes to three major discussions in the literature of political science and psychology. First, we show that emotional responses to media stimuli are independent explanatory factors influencing post-debate voting intention while in part mediating real-time evaluations of candidate statements. Second, our analysis demonstrates that the impact of emotional responses to televised debates can barely be deemed to be structured along one single dimension of valence but that discrete emotions show distinct effects. Third, the paper supports the notion that anger and enthusiasm have an indirect impact on voting intention by increasing the weight of political predisposition and reducing the weight of evaluation of current information on candidates’ issue stances in televised debates. We also find empirical evidence for the indirect effect of anxiety as well; it reverses the pattern and reduces the weight of political conviction while increasing the importance of evaluations about candidate statements. However, the latter finding does not seem to be very robust as in fact, substitutions are also able to generate this pattern. Finally, the paper reviews implications of the findings and discusses limitations and future perspectives of research.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1515/openps-2022-0001
A. Terzyan
Abstract This paper explores the state of minority rights in Ukraine following the 2014 Maidan revolution. The Maidan revolution has been largely regarded as the most radical attempt at de-institutionalizing post-Soviet politics and order since 1991 and forging a new Ukrainian nation. Such an endeavor leads us to address a critical question of what the core implications are on minority rights in Ukraine, which encompass religious, ethnic, and sexual minority rights. This analysis places special emphasis on minority religious rights in post-Maidan Ukraine. Findings suggest that the Maidan revolution has not led to substantial policy reform as it pertains to minorities, thus leaving many of their problems unaddressed. While the Maidan aided Ukraine in becoming more “Ukrainian” and reinforced the national identification of the Ukrainian population, it marked a considerable shift in nationalism by ensuing adverse effects on the Russian-speaking population in Eastern Ukraine, as well as on other ethnic and religious minority groups. Moreover, the Ukrainian authorities’ efforts at gaining “spiritual independence” from the Russian Orthodox Church have been met with challenges for religious minority groups. Despite the legislative measures aimed at protecting the rights of LGBTI community, their effective implementation remains a significant and unresolved problem.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2022.124030
Yuliannova Lestari, Georges Olemanu Lohalo, Nicole Kajir Diur, Betao Ngoma Mushinda, Vital Mbumba Mbumba, Scheel Mutombo Kianga, Peter Ngolo Minga
China and Indonesia face the same maritime challenge in Asia. As their relationship strengthens and their multidimensional strategic connection grows. This research analyzes the maritime security threats China and Indonesia, include the current state of China-Indonesia security cooperation, and proposes the following steps to strengthen security cooperation, especially jointly countering maritime security threats. It also provides policymakers with theory and practice guidance. China and Indonesia can improve security by strengthening their alliance. However, there are some trust issues and a weak security cooperation mechanism. China and Indonesia must increase security cooperation to address maritime security threats. The two countries should increase multi-level defence and military cooperation to eliminate maritime security threats.
{"title":"Security Cooperation between China and Indonesia to Address Maritime Security Threats","authors":"Yuliannova Lestari, Georges Olemanu Lohalo, Nicole Kajir Diur, Betao Ngoma Mushinda, Vital Mbumba Mbumba, Scheel Mutombo Kianga, Peter Ngolo Minga","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.124030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.124030","url":null,"abstract":"China and Indonesia face the same maritime challenge in Asia. As their relationship strengthens and their multidimensional strategic connection grows. This research analyzes the maritime security threats China and Indonesia, include the current state of China-Indonesia security cooperation, and proposes the following steps to strengthen security cooperation, especially jointly countering maritime security threats. It also provides policymakers with theory and practice guidance. China and Indonesia can improve security by strengthening their alliance. However, there are some trust issues and a weak security cooperation mechanism. China and Indonesia must increase security cooperation to address maritime security threats. The two countries should increase multi-level defence and military cooperation to eliminate maritime security threats.","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"217 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2022.124034
P. I. Ramalho, Delia Rodrigo
{"title":"Interests and Influence: Stakeholder Participation in the Regulatory Process","authors":"P. I. Ramalho, Delia Rodrigo","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.124034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.124034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2022.122009
Nigar Nese Kemiksiz
{"title":"Arab Spring and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Organization","authors":"Nigar Nese Kemiksiz","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.122009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.122009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civil Military Relations in a Post-Colonial State: An Interrogation of Nigeria’s Military Internal Operations","authors":"Chukwuemeka Enyiazu, Onyedikachi Madueke, Casmir Chukwuka Mbaegbu","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.122010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.122010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2022.121006
Archibald Gustin
Chantal Mouffe is one of the most discussed political theorists of recent years. One of her most important theoretical contributions is her critique of deliberative democracy for its inability to think the political in terms of antagonism and dissensus. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine to what extent Mouffe’s theory of democracy, which she calls “agonistic pluralism” and which she proposes as an alternative to deliberative democracy, can be used to think about the role of the parliamentary institution in a democratic polity. To this end, we mobilize a qualitative method based on the realisation of fifteen semi-structured interviews in order to analyze the case of the Walloon Parliament, with the aim of showing how democratic parliamentarism realiz-es the staging of the antagonism which, according to Mouffe, founds the domain of the political 1 .
{"title":"An Agonistic Theory of Democratic Parliamentarism. The Case of the Walloon Parliament","authors":"Archibald Gustin","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.121006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.121006","url":null,"abstract":"Chantal Mouffe is one of the most discussed political theorists of recent years. One of her most important theoretical contributions is her critique of deliberative democracy for its inability to think the political in terms of antagonism and dissensus. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine to what extent Mouffe’s theory of democracy, which she calls “agonistic pluralism” and which she proposes as an alternative to deliberative democracy, can be used to think about the role of the parliamentary institution in a democratic polity. To this end, we mobilize a qualitative method based on the realisation of fifteen semi-structured interviews in order to analyze the case of the Walloon Parliament, with the aim of showing how democratic parliamentarism realiz-es the staging of the antagonism which, according to Mouffe, founds the domain of the political 1 .","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2022.122008
Betelhem Tirusew Bayu
{"title":"Ideological Differences in the Sino-Ethiopian Relations from the Early 1950s to the Late 1960s","authors":"Betelhem Tirusew Bayu","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.122008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.122008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Children with disabilities in Zimbabwe faced several economic, social and cultural challenges due to crumbling economy and socialisation. Their plight further deteriorated with the advent of COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world economy. Zimbabwe was not spared from this as most parents of children with disabilities are in the informal sector that was badly hit by COVID-19 lockdown measures that prohibited them from trading. This affected children with disabilities to access their basic needs. The study was conducted on children with disabilities in Chiredzi South which is a rural community. The study used qualitative methodology in the form of desk review and virtual questionnaires and key informant interviews. These virtual interviews used the ODK application and ONA server. The main findings of the study were that there are eight disabilities types in Chiredzi South that are prevalent to children, lack of movement enablers, lack of telecommunication infrastructure hindered education and health access for children with disabilities. The main conclusions were that children living with disabilities in Chiredzi did not receive meaningful help from government and non-governmental organisations during COVID-19 pandemic; they are further excluded from accessing basic services such as education and health. The recommendations of the study are making sure that special teachers are at schools during lockdown with government providing them with protective equipment, introduction of subsidies to assist children with disabilities in schools, accessibility of appro-priate medication for those who live on special medication, and many other recommendations as outlined at the end of the paper.
{"title":"The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children with Disabilities: The Case of Chiredzi South, Zimbabwe","authors":"Gumbo Olivia, Gumbo Douglas, Musingafi Maxwell, Nyaruwata Leonorah","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.121004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.121004","url":null,"abstract":"Children with disabilities in Zimbabwe faced several economic, social and cultural challenges due to crumbling economy and socialisation. Their plight further deteriorated with the advent of COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world economy. Zimbabwe was not spared from this as most parents of children with disabilities are in the informal sector that was badly hit by COVID-19 lockdown measures that prohibited them from trading. This affected children with disabilities to access their basic needs. The study was conducted on children with disabilities in Chiredzi South which is a rural community. The study used qualitative methodology in the form of desk review and virtual questionnaires and key informant interviews. These virtual interviews used the ODK application and ONA server. The main findings of the study were that there are eight disabilities types in Chiredzi South that are prevalent to children, lack of movement enablers, lack of telecommunication infrastructure hindered education and health access for children with disabilities. The main conclusions were that children living with disabilities in Chiredzi did not receive meaningful help from government and non-governmental organisations during COVID-19 pandemic; they are further excluded from accessing basic services such as education and health. The recommendations of the study are making sure that special teachers are at schools during lockdown with government providing them with protective equipment, introduction of subsidies to assist children with disabilities in schools, accessibility of appro-priate medication for those who live on special medication, and many other recommendations as outlined at the end of the paper.","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2022.124028
J. DeFronzo, J. Gill
{"title":"Gender and the 2018 U.S. Congressional Election","authors":"J. DeFronzo, J. Gill","doi":"10.4236/ojps.2022.124028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2022.124028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91589,"journal":{"name":"Open journal of political science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70553378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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