Academic Articles & Research Papers

Religion and Public Policy

This article addresses the relationship between religion and politics in liberal democracies from a public policy angle. The analysis shows that contrary to the general secularization thesis, there is a visible religious impact on public po...

Reframing Public Policy

Abstract In recent years a set of new ‘postempiricist’ approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analy...

Public Opinion and Public Policy

Abstract The key function of representative democracy is to provide a mechanism through which public opinion and public policy are regularly connected. On one hand, there should be policy representation; public preferences for policy should...

A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches for Information Disorder Detection on Social Media: The Context of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-information

Social media platforms have become powerful tools for communication, information exchange, networking, and community building. However, their widespread use has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-inform...

Postbiotics in Functional Foods: Preparation-Based Characterization, Gut–Brain Axis Interactions, and Translational Perspectives

Postbiotics are defined as preparations of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confer a health benefit on the host. Although interest in postbiotics has increased substantially, their translational use in functional foods ...

New Directions in Chronic Disease Management

A worldwide epidemic of chronic disease, and complications thereof, is underway, with no sign of abatement. Healthcare costs have increased tremendously, principally because of the need to treat chronic complications of non-communicable dis...

A manifesto for communication studies

Abstract In this article, a case is made for confident self-expression as a practice of democratic citizenship that is no less important than literacy. This article then considers what is entailed in ‘doing citizenship’ as opposed to ‘being...

Deletion of hepatic carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) impairs glucose homeostasis and hepatic insulin sensitivity in mice

Objective: Carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP) is a transcription factor that responds to glucose and activates genes involved in the glycolytic and lipogenic pathways. Recent studies have linked adipose ChREBP to insulin...

“Like a small trip back to the GDR”? East German evaluations of the television serial Weissensee and its authenticity in a dynamic discourse landscape

In this article, I take the example of the historical German television fiction success Weissensee and ask how East Germans have read and judged the way this serial constructed their past more than a decade after its television premiere. Th...

Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies

Abstract While the periodizing concept “post-truth” (PT) initially appeared in the United States as a key word of popular politics in the form “post-truth politics” or “post-truth society,” it quickly appeared in many languages. It is now t...

ASPECTOS CLÍNICOS, EPIDEMIOLÓGICOS E LABORATORIAIS DE PORTADORES DE TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR E EXTRAPULMONAR PROVENIENTES DE SERVIÇOS PÚBLICOS DO ESTADO DE PERNAMBUCO

Introdução/objetivo: A tuberculose (TB) mantém-se como um grave problema de saúde pública, sendo a principal causa de morte por doença infecciosa antes da COVID-19. Em 2022, foram notificados 78.057 novos casos de TB no Brasil, destes, 5.14...

Analysis of groundwater and surface water quality using modelled water index and multivariate statistics in Kampala and Mbarara Districts, Uganda

Abstract The demand for domestic, public and industrial use of water increases with population growth. However, activities from humans and natural environment have resulted into decline in water quality. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

"Organizzare la semplicità" per una democrazia matura. Roberto Ruffilli e le riforme istituzionali

Democratic Innovations as a Tool to Restore Trust and Citizens’ Participation: A Comparison Between Stakeholder Groups in Italy

Recent changes in European countries have stimulated the search for multilevel policy interventions to restore citizens’ trust and engagement, focusing specifically on democratic innovations. Our paper presents the results of a survey condu...

Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

"The reasons political scientists neglect conservation biology and biodiversity may lie even deeper than incentives related to publication and hiring. They may have more to do with what political scientists view as the most important issues...

Political Science

Abstract What does political science as a discipline contribute to the understanding of the relationship between business and government? The field has long been a stepchild within the discipline with many fewer practitioners than the study...

Ventures in Political Science

Reflecting an extraordinary career, Ventures in Political Science collects Gabriel Almond's most important work on the development of political science and democratic theory. An absorbing introduction—providing personal and historical conte...

What Is Political Science For?

This address advances three ideas. First, political science as a discipline has a mandate to help human beings govern themselves. Second, within this mandate we should be focusing, more than we do now, on creating legitimate coercion. In a ...

Participación y Gestión Pública en Nuevo León, México

El propósito de este trabajo es examinar la reforma administrativa llevada a cabo por el gobierno del norteño estado mexicano de Nuevo León en el periodo 2003-2009, en especial en lo referente a la participación ciudadana ligada a la descen...