Today’s political sociologists are once again interested in the study of the crisis of mass-based parties, anti-politics and anti-parliamentarism, crisis in the authority of the political class, prevailing corporate interests within republican institutions, and populism. Political sociology however,…

Nicholas Rescher writes that “objectivity is not something we infer from the data; it is something we must presuppose. It is something that we postulate or presume from the very outset of our dealings with people’s claims about the world’s facts”. Such definition is just the opposite of objectivity …

Tregimtaria mund të konsiderohet si një pjesë aspak e anashkalueshme e krijimtarisë së Petro Markos, që, ndonëse nuk është trajtuar sa duhet, meriton vëmendje. Përgjithësisht studiohen e diskutohen romanet e tij. Ai konsiderohet vetëm si romancier, ndonjëherë dhe si publicist, ndërkohë që me tregime…

Para tridhjetë vjetësh, më 12 prill 1983, u nda nga jeta njëri prej gjuhëtarëve më të shquar shqiptarë të gjysmës së dytë të shek. XX, dialektologu udhërrëfyes, sintaksologu i palodhur vështrimmprehtë, mësuesi, pedagogu i nderuar dhe gjurmuesi i veçantë shkencor, kolegu dhe miku ynë, i urti dhe i pa…

Some of the most promising post-Cold War developments in Marxian thought have been stimulated by problems facing Marxists in Western Europe, to that extent they all seem to lay bare, intentionally or otherwise, the lacking of qualities, of Marx’s prediction. The most significant example of the failu…

Approximation of the Albanian legislation with the acquis communautaire is accompanied by deep reforms and, consequently, by reforms of relations accompanying the relevant laws. In this context, one of the European Union recommendations for the Albanian government was the country’s tax reform. This …

In the paper we argue that no neat border line between ontology and epistemology can be drawn. This is due to the fact that the separation between factual and conceptual is rather fuzzy, and the world is characterized by a sort of ontological opacity which makes the construction of any absolute onto…

Increasing real public participation in governance and decision making is one of the greatest challenges of modern democracies as well as of these countries seeking to elevate their level of decision making and effective participation of public and citizenship in these processes. The widely dissemin…

Trajtimi i kategorisë së rrethanorit në gramatikat e shqipes është një çështje e rëndësishme sintaksore, e cila nuk ka tërhequr mjaftueshëm vëmendjen e albanologëve shqiptarë. Nëpërmjet një vëzhgimi historiko-kritik, ky studim synon të paraqesë zhvillimin e mendimit gjuhësor për rrethanorin, duke nx…

Trashëgimia letrare e shkrimtarit arbëresh Franqisk Anton Santori (1819-1894), në raste të rralla është botuar në gjallje të autorit. Vetëm katër vepra kanë parë dritën e botimit dhe ndër to tri1 japin të dhëna mbi kohën kur janë shkruar dhe vendin e botimit ndërsa Il Canzoniere albanese është botua…

The Albanian challenges have been insistent not just for domestic researchers, academics, or even Albanian citizens; they pique a lot of people in different geographic positions, first of all, the European ones, because by a strong European drive Albanian progresses have been oriented. This brings a…

The new Albanian Family Code provides an additional measure reading the protection of the child, namely, the “loss of parental responsibility.” Differently from the measure of “removal of the parental responsibility” that is provided in the civil code provisions, this new measure has been introduced…