Category: Politics & Government
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How do the mass media affect levels of trust in government?
Challenging the conventional wisdom that suggests greater exposure to mass media outlets will result in…
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Don’t knock clickivism: it represents the political participation aspirations of the modern citizen
Is an action only ‘political’ if it takes place in the mainstream political arena; involving…
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Will China’s new national search engine, ChinaSo, fare better than “The Little Search Engine that Couldn’t”?
Branded explicitly as “China Search: Authoritative National Search,” ChinaSo reinforces a sense of national identity.…
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Why does the Open Government Data agenda face such barriers?
Reflect upon the barriers preventing the OGD agenda from making a breakthrough into the mainstream.
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Finnish decision to allow same-sex marriage “shows the power of citizen initiatives”
It is the first piece of “crowdsourced” legislation on its way to becoming law in…
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The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda
Editors must now decide not only what to publish and where, but how long it…
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How easy is it to research the Chinese web?
The research expectations seem to be that control and intervention by Beijing will be most…
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Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere
The Russian language blogosphere counts about 85 million blogs—an amount far beyond the capacities of…
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Technological innovation and disruption was a big theme of the WEF 2014 in Davos: but where was government?
The World Economic Forum engages business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape…
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Five recommendations for maximising the relevance of social science research for public policy-making in the big data era
How can social scientists help policy-makers in this changed environment, ensuring that social science research…
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The promises and threats of big data for public policy-making
Widespread use of digital technologies, the Internet and social media means both citizens and governments…
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Can text mining help handle the data deluge in public policy analysis?
There has been a major shift in the policies of governments concerning participatory governance—that is,…