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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,193 Views
13 Pages

13 March 2023

Some of the dominant academic approaches to Muslim politics continue to assume the centrality of Islam on the question religion’s relationship to the state and the possibility of successful democracy in Muslim-majority states. On the one hand,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Political Secularism and Religion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,780 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2022

The spread of hate speech challenges the health of democracy and media systems in contemporary societies. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of user-generated online hate speech reported by Internet users to national monitoring o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,715 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2025

This article examines the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic framing of democracy and human rights in Egypt following the 2013 military coup, contributing to scholarship on the movement’s adaptation to repression and political exclusion. Empl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,510 Views
21 Pages

9 April 2026

Over the past decade, far-right parties have moved from the political margins into the mainstream of several European democracies. This article examines how migration functions not primarily as a demographic driver of electoral change, but as a discu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Challenges to Democracy, Citizenship and Political Participation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,214 Views
19 Pages

Social media platforms have become central arenas for political communication, electoral mobilization, and institutional contestation. This study examines how TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram were used during and after the 2025 Romanian presidential e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,307 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2019

Based on the indeterminate character of the sustainability concept, a procedural and discursive understanding of sustainability decision making and corresponding approaches for education for sustainability (EFS) is proposed. A set of criteria for tea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,736 Views
15 Pages

7 March 2023

At present, multinational and regional educational agencies and researchers have used academic development and global citizenship training to increase globalization. However, owing to the existence of emerging policies, these innovations have raised...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Information Systems and Operations Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
13,879 Views
17 Pages

9 September 2025

The ideal of the open society, grounded in rational deliberation and pluralism, faces growing challenges in the digital age. This study examines how affective polarization—characterized by emotional hostility and antagonism across political ide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Open Society 2.0: Democracy in the Age of Social Media and Populism)
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
27,852 Views
18 Pages

Since late 2000s, the political landscape in Bangladesh moved from democracy to an authoritarian kleptocracy, and experienced a new set of political and social narratives. This paper aims to contest some of these dominant/official narratives which ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
13,311 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2013

Sustainability issues involve complex interactions between social, economic, and environmental factors that are often viewed quite differently by disparate stakeholder groups. Issues of non-sustainability are wicked problems that have many, often obs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,837 Views
20 Pages

27 June 2024

The climate crisis is an urgent issue that requires immediate and significant international action and is tightly connected to several other global problems such as biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and countercurrents to democracy. Therefore,...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
503 Views
16 Pages

This essay draws on a delimited corpus of publicly circulating materials associated with Abelardo de la Espriella’s digital campaign in the 2026 Colombian presidential election to examine a form of algorithmic–affective campaigning. Throu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Media, Artificial Intelligence and Political Extremism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,077 Views
13 Pages

The wide circulation of conspiracy narratives and their frequent intertwining with populist rhetoric is both an element of concern and a topic of intense scientific and philosophical debate. The depth of the link between conspiracy theories and popul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conspiracy Theories: Genealogies and Political Uses)