News discourses threatening multiculturalism in Ethiopian mainstream TV channels: Discourse historical approach by Gizachew Nemomsa Eranfeno, Agaredech Jemaneh Gemeda, Abdissa Zerai Bamano

“…Newsrooms employ antagonistic narratives that impede the cultivation of tolerance and respect among diverse ethnic and political factions. Consequently, these narratives cunningly neutralize the political undertones of ethnic conflicts by labeling the culprits as terrorists. …”
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National Education and Educational Ideals in the Political Thought of the National Party (1928-1939) by Aneta Dawidowicz

“…Nonetheless, such issues were often perceived differently by the diverse ideological and political factions. According to such political entities, the interwar period was marked by the destabilisation of the previously existing social, political and cultural order, giving rise to a new reality. …”
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Comparative Characteristics of Progressive and Flat Income Tax Scales by Evgeny V. Balatsky, Natalia A. Ekimova

“…This procedure allowed to identify errors in the calculations of the three political factions that support the introduction of a progressive income tax scale (A Just Russia, the LDPR and the Communist party of the Russian Federation). …”
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Perception of partisans toward democratic practice and the appointment of Prime Minister of Jordan by Al-Majali, Jehad Mohammad Khazer

“…In discussing the differences between the political factions toward the current democratic practice in Jordan and the appointment of the prime minister, the results showed that both the right wing and left wing were dissatisfied with the current democratic practice in Jordan, whereas the moderates seemed to be neutral in their stance. …”
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Learning Political Polarization on Social Media Using Neural Networks by Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio

“…This paper presents a methodology, called IOM-NN (Iterative Opinion Mining using Neural Networks), for discovering the polarization of social media users during election campaigns characterized by the competition of political factions. The methodology uses an automatic incremental procedure based on feed-forward neural networks for analyzing the posts published by social media users. …”
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Leadership competencies of university presidents in Iran's higher education system by Ebrahim Khalili, Ali Khorsandi taskoh, Alireza tanhaei, Mehdi Bagheri

“…Findings: Knowledge, attitude and skill competencies are the most important, respectively, and in each of these categories, the importance of "academic competence and academic credibility", "appointments away from political factions", and "diversification of financial resources" for university presidents in the Iranian higher education system is greater than the other groups respectively, for the university presidents in the Iranian higher education system.  …”
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El camino hacia los gabinetes ministeriales: un estudio de los factores que influyen en la designación de mujeres ministras en Ecuador y Colombia, 1978-2018 by Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Sergio Huertas-Hernández

“…Then we realized that the growing number of women with a university education and their presence in a wider range of political factions are the variables which have a positive influence on the appointment of women to governmental cabinets”] Originality: Research on this subject has increased, but it is generally focused on case studies or employs a multilevel analysis. …”
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The Ambivalent Identity of Eighteenth-Century London Clubs as a Prelude to Victorian Clublife by Valérie Capdeville

“…Some of the first political factions that started to meet in London taverns and coffee-houses during the restoration period fostered a spirit of dissent. …”
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“Wars” on COVID-19 in Slovakia, Russia, and the United States: Securitized Framing and Reframing of Political and Media Communication Around the Pandemic by Marta N. Lukacovic

“…The second research question focused on fairly controversial actors— “rogue actors” —such as individuals linked to far-leaning political factions or militias. The proliferation of digital media provides various actors with opportunities to join publicly visible conversations. …”
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The New German Energy Policy – What Role for Gas in a De-carbonization Policy? by Dickel, R

“…</p> <p>In this extensive and comprehensive paper, Ralf Dickel explains the political path by which Germany’s current energy policy was derived and in particular the way in which the Fukushima disaster on March 2011 finally catalysed an embedded desire to exit nuclear energy in many political factions to fulfilment through consensual legislation. …”

Palestinian NGOs: External Governance, Stakeholders, and Accountability by Raed Awashreh

“…In NGOs’ opinion, the relationships to various stakeholders range from satisfactory to good especially where the PA, foreign donors, and political factions are concerned. The PA’s hostility towards NGOs stems from suspicion of their political or donor affiliations and NGOs critique of PA policies and performance. …”
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The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations. by Shin Alexandre Koseki

“…Results suggest that political congruence between Swiss local populations increased in the last forty years, while regional political factions and linguistic alignments have lost their salience to new divides. …”
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Taiwan’s Security Calculus of Cross-Strait Migration by Ching Chang

“…Are the rationales for maintaining a tight grip on cross-Strait migration in line with the political ideal proclaimed by the political factions in Taiwan still sensible? What is the potential for the trend of cross-Strait migration affecting the security calculus in the future? …”
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Ara es l’hora? The Approach of the Catalan Political Scene to Independence Issues by Maria Pobóg-Lenartowicz

“…I will look at the programmes of the leading – in recent years as well as currently – Catalan political factions in terms of their outlook on the issue of independence. …”
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Community Policing in Latin America: Lessons from Mexico City by Markus-Michael Müller

“…The article demonstrates that this policing effort is overly determined by a local context, characterized by clientelism, political factionalism and police corruption, which therefore renders its contribution to a sustainable improvement of local accountability and police legitimacy unlikely. …”
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Organizational choices and organizational adaptability in political parties. The case of Western European Christian democracy by Dilling, M

“…Moving beyond the focus of path dependence on a single level has thus important implications for the literature on party politics, factionalism, party organizations and institutional development.…”

The fourth ordeal: a history of the society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, 1973-2013 by Willi, V

“…</p> <p>In accounting for the fall, my key argument centres on the internal rivalry between two political factions representing different "schools of thought", or visions, about the kind of organisation the Brotherhood was supposed to be. …”

The children of Africa in the colonies by Newton, M, Newton, Melanie

“…</p> <p>However class differences and disagreements over emancipation policy led to political factionalism among people of colour. The absence of fundamental change in the distribution of land and wealth after emancipation left most pre-1834 free people of colour and ex-slaves with little hope of political enfranchisement or socio-economic betterment. …”

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDONESIAN SOCIETY AFTER THE 1965 INCIDENT AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIAL RESILIENCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA by Amarulla OCTAVIAN, Joni WIDJAYANTO, I Nengah PUTRA, A. P. SUMARNO

“…The 1965-incident became a scourge for the Indonesian nation due to the occurrence of a bloody incident in form of a horizontal conflict involving ideological political factions in Indonesia at that time. Nevertheless, the 1965 incident was able to bring the novelty and progress that occurred in Indonesian society afterwards as its positive aspects. …”
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Analyzing Political Polarization on Social Media by Deleting Bot Spamming by Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio

“…In this paper we present a new methodology, namely <i>TIMBRE</i> (<i>T</i>ime-aware op<i>I</i>nion <i>M</i>ining via <i>B</i>ot <i>RE</i>moval), aimed at discovering the polarity of social media users during election campaigns characterized by the rivalry of political factions. This methodology is temporally aware and relies on a keyword-based classification of posts and users. …”
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