Shifting linkages in ethnic mobilization: the case of RMDSZ and the Hungarians in Transylvania

The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) has been the most stable actor in the Romanian party system over the past two decades. However, in this article, we argue that beyond this apparent stability, the linkages between RMDSZ and its voters have undergone a gradual, yet significant shift. The ethnic block voting of Transylvanian Hungarians was closely connected to the concept of a self-standing and parallel “Minority Society,” and to the practices of institution building that the minority elites engaged in in the early 1990s. However, since its first participation in the Romanian government in 1996, RMDSZ has gradually departed from this strategy, a phenomenon that was also closely connected to a process of elite change within the organization. The present RMDSZ leadership puts less and less emphasis on policy programs that could reinforce the institutional system of the minority; consequently, it is unable (and unwilling) to organizationally integrate the community activists of the minority society who previously had played a key role in the process of (electoral) mobilization. At the rhetorical level, RMDSZ did not abandon the goal of building a parallel Hungarian minority society, but in its linkages to the Hungarian electorate, clientelistic exchanges have become predominant.     

Population Pressures and the North–South Divide between the first century and 2100

This article examines the relationship between the populations of the more and less developed societies between the first century and 2100. Such an analysis reveals a changing dependency between the level of development (and GDP) achieved and population numbers between the first century and 1998. In relation to the past the article suggests a dynamic model for dividing the world into more and less developed areas. In relation to the present and the future it bases the population analysis on the developmental division of the world as published by one of the co-authors of this article. The article largely uses population estimates (with those referring to the past taken from Angus Maddison and those referring to the future from the most recent projections by the United Nations). Taking the 2013 UN projection as a model, it discusses three variants for demographic development in the North and South up to 2100. It argues that the more restrictive population growth variants of the UN projection predict a greater relative ‘Third Worldisation’ of the world than does the most dynamic projection.     

The emergence of regulatory regionalism: transnational networks and the diffusion of regulatory agencies within regions

The regulatory regionalism approach has increasingly claimed that a new mode of regional governance is emerging globally. Regional policy regimes, developed in broad social and economic territorial areas, affect the internal transformation of the state. The authors plan to provide comprehensive empirical evidence about the emergence of worldwide regulatory regionalism by identifying how regulatory agencies have diffused very successfully within the regional level in recent decades. The paper aims to identify, using an original methodological design, the ways in which such diffusion of agencies occurred, as this may have theoretical relevance for the study of regulatory regionalism. The authors' hypothesis suggests that transnational political interactions in each regional cluster triggered agency diffusion, contributing to the development of the regulatory state within the countries of each region. To test this hypothesis, the authors employed a data set of regulatory agencies including the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), and most Asian and Latin American countries (+59) from 1950 to 2007, for 15 sectors related to finance, risks, utility and competition. Bayesian data analysis was used to estimate the parameters of interest.     

between Islamophobia and post-feminist agency: intersectional trouble in the European face-veil bans

Women’s equality claims have occupied the forefront of the European debate on face-veil bans; most claims have been denounced as mere manipulation for anti-Islamic and/or anti-immigrant political agendas, and the dilemma between anti-sexist and anti-racist struggles has been argued to be false. This article examines how opportunistic manipulation of gender equality claims and the ‘ethnicisation’ of sexism have been assessed and confronted in the scholarly debate opposing the bans, as well as the impact that this debate has had on women’s equality claims and the intersectionality issue. I argue that the women’s oppression argument has not been fully considered, because it would have disrupted the anti-racist struggle due to unresolved problems with understanding intersectionality.     

Motivations for Social Media Use: Associations with Social Media Engagement and Body Satisfaction and Well-Being among Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Adolescents are spending considerable time on social media, yet it is unclear whether motivations for social media use drive different forms of social media...     

二谈涉网犯罪--涉网犯罪案件剖析

涉网犯罪在刑事案件发案中所占比例呈上升趋势,利用网络为犯罪提供各种服务的刑事案件越来越普遍。结合现在各种形式的涉网犯罪,对涉网犯罪案件利用网络寻找犯罪对象、准备犯罪工具、联络同伙、实施犯罪、销赃等涉网行为仔细剖析,发现犯罪与网络具有的联系,以帮助侦查人员了解涉网犯罪,为研究涉网犯罪侦查提供思路。     

足底乳突花纹分布规律探讨

指纹具有人各不同、终身不变的特性。足底乳突花纹也具有人各不同且终身不变的特性。研究足底乳突纹线的分布规律,可以区别手纹与足纹,分析案发过程中留痕人员的动作,区别左右脚,确定足迹的留痕部位,如果留痕条件好,可以推算整个足迹的大小、嫌疑人的胖瘦、性别等等,并进行同一认定。     

印度外交战略的新调整

印度作为一个正在崛起中的大国,由于其得天独厚的地缘战略位置和蒸蒸日上的经济实力,使它在当今国际格局中的地位正在不断上升.     

人民监督员制度的法治价值及其实现

人民监督员制度作为检察机关的一项重要司法制度设计,不仅反映了司法过程的民主性,也体现了司法过程的开放性和回应性.因而具有重大的法治意义和价值.因此,需要采取积极有效措施,改进和完善人民监督员制度,充分发挥其应有功能,以促进民主进程和法治秩序.     

试论校园文化与大学生成才的关系

人是环境的产物,大学生能否成才与其所处的校园文化环境有着密不可分的关系。校园文化与社会文化的关系是一个双向交流过程,社会文化对校园文化产生着深刻的影响,校园文化不断经受着来自各方面消极文化的冲击。加强大学校园文化建设,营造高品位校园文化,为社会培养更多的高素质人才,是大学义不容辞的责任和义务。