{"title":"The Iranian Challenge to Gulf Security","authors":"A. Fawaz","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000299","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to analyze the Iranian challenge to Gulf security, as Iran aims to dominate the Middle East region, so the study focuses on the Imbalance of power between two sides. Also the study dealt with the differences issues between Tehran and the Gulf countries like, The Three UAE Islands, Iran's nuclear program, Tehran's interference in Arab affairs, particularly in the crisis in Syria and Yemen.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123446687","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":"Protected Values and Their Influences on Perceived Procedural Fairnessin Highway Project: A Field Survey in South Sulawesi, Indonesia","authors":"I. Setiawan, T. Hatori","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000290","url":null,"abstract":"Values that are protected against trade-offs, which are known as protected values, can render policy acceptance impossible. The main purpose of this paper was to examine the impacts of residents’ protected values on their perceptions of procedural fairness, which is an important determinant of policy acceptance. A questionnaire survey was completed by 300 residents of three cities in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that had been affected by a flyover construction project. The results showed that some respondents had protected values based on religious and environmental considerations. These values were also shown to detract from perceptions of procedural fairness. Furthermore, trust in government mitigated this derogation effect.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132098292","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":"2015 Nigerian Presidential Election: Which Factors Drive Voter Turnoutthe Most?","authors":"Cletus Fn","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000284","url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses the relative influence of the factors that spur voter turnout in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election. The influence of eleven variables (drawn from theories) on voter turnout was weighed using binary logistic regression. The logistic regression model was statistically significant, χ2 (11)=74.57, p<0.01. The model explained 25.1% (Nagelkerke R2) of the variance in voter turnout and correctly classified 76.4% of cases. Males were 1.16 times more likely to turnout than females. Among the variables, political interest (p<0.0001) and political trust (p<0.0001) added significantly to the model. The results revealed that political interest and political trust influenced voter turnout more than other factors. However, socio-economic status had some effect on voter turnout. Thus increasing political interest and political trust were associated with an increased likelihood of voter turnout.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130112615","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":"A Check to China's Water Hegemony","authors":"M. V","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000285","url":null,"abstract":"“Upstream dams, barrages, canals, and irrigation systems can help fashion water into a political weapon that can be wielded overtly in a war, or subtly in peacetime to signal dissatisfaction with a co-riparian state.” - Brahma Chellaney writes in Coming Water Wars.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133291549","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":"Globalization and States Political Management in Outlook of Neo-realism Paradigm","authors":"S. Hamid","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000288","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization effected and will be wondrous in all human life aspects. Purpose of this article is bring up and analyses of globalization effects on states political management. Technology extent and human genius in late decades cause that informatics revolution and extend of satellite and internet networks, international economic rising, international organization and codification of international rights world relation become increased and easily. This research inverse of prevalent theories that believes with beginning of globalization process, political management of national states become instable and ultimate fade, with emphasis of neo-realists theories and too case study of authoritarian countries and united states of America in political arena believe that now states are important actors in international arena and in near future cannot imagine globalization without states sovereignty and management. In this research sovereignty is consider as management and compilation method is documentary and library.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126446296","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":"The Misery behind the Flashlight","authors":"B. Ousman, Drammeh Pm","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000286","url":null,"abstract":"6189 REDLINE Select RC™ Rechargeable Tactical Flashlight with USB Power bank: On Showing Beam Pattern.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133953104","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":"Development as Change in a Neo-Liberal World: An Overview","authors":"B. Koyel","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000287","url":null,"abstract":"The current dominant model of development based on market liberalization and commercial globalization has been faulty. More often than not, it has conspicuously failed to deliver. In an age of neoliberalism, development cannot only be growth-oriented. The humane aspect of development has to come in the forefront. However, most of the times, it is in the backburner. This has happened because the concept of development has been so poorly conceived and narrowly defined prior to the 1990s. The development that we want to harp on has to emphasize on advancing the richness of human life instead of the richness of the economy. It implies the enhancement of peoples’ choices as a dynamic, evolutionary and continuous process. Choices connote freedom to take decisions that affect one’s life as well as freedom from certain removable constraints on the functioning of human beings such as fear, hunger, illiteracy, unemployment, exclusion, discrimination and persecution. Participatory and peoplecentered development has redefined the goals of development.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128963920","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":"The Rise of Citizenship and Rights Post the Advent of Enlightenment","authors":"S. Shruti","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000283","url":null,"abstract":"Capitalism is essentially an unequal system dividing the society into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. It is today seen as the greatest challenge to realizing the basic human right of equality. However if we trace the history of capitalism, it emerged as a result of a revolt against the feudal system and the inequality perpetuated by that system. Further, simultaneous to the development of capitalism was the development of modern citizenship and democratic rights - at least in the country where capitalism first originated i.e. England. The aim of the paper is to analyse how a system which itself was a mark of revolt against oppression and which led to the development of rights has become the greatest perpetrator of oppression and greatest threat to human rights. The paper begins with a brief history of the rise of citizenship followed by that of capitalism as a response to feudalism. Through T H Marshall's \"Citizenship and Social Class\" the paper tries to analyse the contradiction between the rise of citizenship and capitalism and then goes on to discuss the future of citizenship in the current neo-liberal capitalist society.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132169115","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":"Chickens in Salem: A Case-study Report on a Grassroots City Ordinance Initiative","authors":"J. Lucas","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000255","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a case-study report on the journey of a city ordinance initiative that sought to legalize the raising and keeping of chickens in an urban area. It follows the ordinance’s inception, initial rejection, and eventual approval by the Salem City Council (Oregon). In particular, this essay analyzes the tactics used by the ordinance’s proponents. This includes the negotiations that were undertaken, especially between the supporters and certain members of the city council, as well as the compromises that were reached. It is an in-depth look into citizen participation in the lawmaking process, and the dispute resolution tactics employed throughout that process.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128363032","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":"Transnational Organized Crime in the Former Yugoslav and Post-Soviet Republics: A Desk Review","authors":"Chukwu Cq","doi":"10.4172/2332-0761.1000281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2332-0761.1000281","url":null,"abstract":"By means of discourse-analytical desk review of qualitative sources, this article discusses the factors that have facilitated the prevalence of transnational organised crime in post-Soviet and former Yugoslav states together with the impacts and the factors that are affecting the effective prevention and control of transnational organized crime (TNOC) in post-Soviet and Yugoslav states. It examines the factors affecting the effective prevention and control of transnational organized crime (TNOC) in post-Soviet and Yugoslav states, and impacts, especially those connected to the globalization of the world economy; the increased mobility of people and services across transnational borders leading to the ethnicization of criminal activities and internationalization of organized crimes due to borderless illicit traffic. The paper argues that as a result of the combination of multiple factors, the prevailing rhetoric of TNOC in the former Yugoslav and Post-Soviet States is explained in terms of the profitability of TNOC economy for political elites, border police, smugglers and people living around the borders and the ability of organized criminal groups to supplant state institutions and its replacement it with private interests which has led to the institutionalization of criminality and the privatization of criminalization occasioned by breakdown of law and order and the corruption of the political elites. Finally, the paper concludes by nothing that the current manifestation of transnational organized criminal activities in former Soviet territories is a synthesis of political corruption and criminal syndication.","PeriodicalId":118558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124750078","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}