Public Affairs

The invention of the term kisceral by Michael Gilbert opens a vast field of human communication that correlates to the intuitive, the religious, the spiritual, the imaginative, and the mystical. However, the ingenuity of the coinage kisceral seems …

Most theories of democracy assume that voters punish politicians who pursue unpopular policies. However, empirical evidence supporting this claim remains elusive, partly because politicians strategically avoid adopting unpopular stances. The 2020 …

The Indian state has maintained control over the energy sector (oil, coal, power, utilities) for more than half a century, primarily through state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Many of these sectors have been gradually opened up post-1990 to …

The political economy of innovation posits that, countries with narrow political elite tend to spend less in R&D and register low patent demand. This article sets out to verify this assertion within the framework of political leader theory; on a …

Democratic politics is shaped by the diversity and independence of many available sources of information, particularly for those interested in politics. This theme emerges from a cross-national comparative analysis of the sourcing strategies of …

The model which dominated twentieth-century analysis of political communication systems is now out of date in many respects. Essential in the authors’ view is a reconsideration of some of the foundational concepts of political communication …

This essay adopts Blumler’s systems outlook to review if something is systematically amiss in our conduct of political communication. We examine the challenges to the survival of independent journalism, the crisis of misinformation and how growing …

This chapter examines the trajectory of Zionist political, economic, and social growth in Palestine before, during, and after World War I, highlighting the transformative impact of the war on Zionist aspirations and infrastructure. The chapter …