Ridvan Peshkopia
Biographic Data
| ID | 220234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ridvan Peshkopia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ridvan |
| FAMILY NAME | Peshkopia |
| SIGNATURE | PESHKOPIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University for Business and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0423-7008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Left–Right Ideological Identification in Kosovo: When Sociopolitical Attitudes Walk through the Minefield of Ideological Self-identification and Party Preference
Occasionally, people and political parties in Kosovo self-identify with the left–right spectrum. But what does this identification really mean? Holding the findings from the Western democracies about the impact of personality traits on people’s ideological orientation as references, the authors compared how the same traits explain Kosovo citizens’ identification along both a self-reported ideological identification and a left–right ideological in…
Political Science as a Science: Exploring Political Science Students’ Perception of their Discipline as Science
The role of interviewer-respondent gender dyads in cellphone interview retention and length
Public Diplomacy–Dissonant Events and Country Favorability: Effects of Trump’s Election in the Balkans
Governments care about their countries’ images abroad, often investing millions in “public diplomacy” to burnish favorability and legitimate foreign policy actions and alignments. Many make democracy central to such efforts. What happens to such a country’s image when elections produce victory for illiberal political forces? Developing a new theory on the foreign reputational impact of “public diplomacy–dissonant” (PDD) events, we present two sur…
Differential personality predictors and contextuality in human rights support: How the Big-Five personality model predicts support for human rights in a post-ethnic conflict society
In the debate between the universal versus contextual dimension of attitudes toward human rights, we argue that personality can explain differences in support for human rights, and that different personality traits tend to show different predictive stability across different issues. In this proto-theoretical effort, we argue that different contexts may affect differently the direction of personality traits in support for human rights. We found th…
You Can Go Your Own Way: How Transit-Country Migration Attitudes Are Influenced by European Union Ideals
Measuring the communication between multiple digital political echo chambers: Multidimensional Invasiveness, Intrusiveness, and Influence
Discovering neighbors: The Regional Migration Experience as a Source of Intergroup Contact
Invasiveness, Intrusiveness and Influence: Three New Metrics to Measure Communication Between Political Digital Echo Chambers
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania
The dominant knowledge in the extant literature is that citizens in EU member countries are not receptive toward the EU message, but rather perceive it from a domestic politics perspective. However, recent research has shown that people in EU membership-aspiring countries from Southeastern Europe might not be as intransigent toward the EU message. What that literature has not highlighted thus far is the type of EU message. Whereas EU normative me…
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans
Blurring Lines of Responsibility: How Institutional Context Affects Citizen Biases Regarding Policy Problems
Existing research suggests that individuals assign responsibility for policy problems based on prior biases like partisanship. However, what remains speculation is whether institutions that blur lines of responsibility elicit more biased responsibility-assignment when compared to institutions with clearer lines of responsibility. European Union enlargement provides an opportunity to examine responsibility-assignment for policy problems within mul…
Mother Teresa: The Saint and Her Nation. By Gëzim Alpion
In her acceptance speech of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa stated: “By blood and origin I am all Albanian. My citizenship is Indian. I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the whole world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus” (p. 1). Whereas her identity features encapsulated by sentences 2–5 in this quote have laid the foundations of Mother Teresa studies, her ethnic identity has remained almost unexplo…
Nationalistic education and its colourful role in intergroup prejudice reduction: Lessons from Albania
Contributors to the education-as-enlightenment approach maintain that education helps to create less prejudicial individuals. This conclusion, emanating mainly from data collected in western democracies that apply multicultural education might not apply to countries where education’s primary goal is the establishment of a sense of national unity and belonging. On the one hand, nationalist education could reduce prejudices against groups not targe…
Trump sympathy in the Balkans: Cross-border populist appeal
Do populist leaders tend to win support from the same kinds of people abroad as they do at home? Since we know public opinion can shape foreign policy, the answer is important for understanding populists’ potential to carry out their typically anti-establishment international agendas. We address this question through original surveys in three Southeast European EU-aspiring countries on one populist leader (US President Donald Trump), establishing…
Individual similarities and regional differences: The impact of 2015 refugee crisis on Europeans’ attitudes toward immigration
Whereas the extant literature has found similarities in attitudes toward immigration to Europe, there is less attention on European East–West attitudinal differences on immigration. We account for attitude variations brought about by the 2015 Europe's refugee crisis in two geopolitical regions of the continent, namely the EU East and the EU west. We found that, the 2015 refugee crisis sparked different attitudinal reaction between these regions r…
An ally to the people: EU membership conditionality and Albanians’ attitudes toward EU membership
EU membership conditionality has been conceptualized as a dialogue between the EU and power elites of countries that aspire to join the Union. Research that inquire into the association between support for EU membership and conditions that the EU imposes on countries that aspire to join the Union remains scarce. Relying on data from a simple random sample of cellphone random digit dialing collected in summer 2015 in Albania, we found that people'…
The role of personality traits and political trust in people’s attitudes toward EU membership
Whereas the role of personality traits and political trust have long been argued to impact people's political attitudes, only recently have scholars of the European Union (EU) integration begun to take them into consideration while trying to explain people's attitudes toward the EU. In an effort to explain the support for EU membership among citizens of Albania and Kosovo, we build a series of ordered probit models using as key independent variab…
EU membership conditionality in promoting acceptance of peremptory human rights norms: A case study in Albania considering public opinion
Since its inception, European Union membership conditionality has played a major role in bringing EU candidate countries from former communist Eastern Europe in line with international human rights norms. In spite of such progress, those societies harbour significant inconsistencies in both their perception of what constitutes human rights and the role public trust in domestic and international actors plays in those perceptions. By highlighting t…
The role of ethnic divisions in people’s attitudes toward the death penalty: The case of the Albanians
Are there specific ethnocultural features that make people support the death penalty, or does support of capital punishment simply reflect people’s position vis-à-vis power? Much of the existing research on this topic has been developed in the absence of an appropriate control group. However, this question can be answered only if ethnonational culture remains constant across different political and socioeconomic settings. In order to achieve such…
A Ghost from the Future: The Postsocialist Myth of Capitalism and the Ideological Suspension of Postmodernity
There is a widespread tendency to see the perils of postsocialism in the revival of the ghosts and myths from the past—namely ethnocentrism, nationalism, exclusiveness, bickering, collectivist-authoritarianism, expansionist chauvinism, and victimisation. I suggest that postsocialism's perils rest with a myth from the future, namely, the myth of capitalism. Those perils, I argue, are rooted in the fetishisation of capitalism by the postsocialist s…
Between Elite Compliance and State Socialisation: The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Eastern Europe
Social constructivist theorists have sought to explain how international norms proliferate from democratic to democratising countries. The contributors of this literature claim that this entire process is based on efforts to change leaders' beliefs, thus shifting the process from simply elite compliance to state socialisation. Yet, elite socialisation might not mean state socialisation unless democratising countries' societies at large appropriat…
In Search of the Private, Public, and Counterpublic: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postsocialism
The aim of this article is to once again analyze the development of the private and public spheres in the three latest stages in the evolution of human society—modernity, postmodernity, and postsocialism—with a focus on the last. The evolutionary nature of social development makes necessary a retrospective analysis, for it would be almost impossible to sketch the contemporary shape of the private, public, and counterpublic in postsocialism withou…
Asylum in the Balkans: European Union and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees assistance to Balkan countries for establishing asylum systems
The externalization of EU asylum and immigration policy that arose from the EU Council of Seville bears the conflicting dichotomy that is proven detrimental to the EU asylum and immigration reform: the contradiction between principles of human rights on the one hand, and that of internal security on the other. However, in the EU foreign policy, the element of internal security seems to prevail. There exists only a limited need to pacify dissented…
Individual similarities and regional differences: The impact of 2015 refugee crisis on Europeans’ attitudes toward immigration
Whereas the extant literature has found similarities in attitudes toward immigration to Europe, there is less attention on European East–West attitudinal differences on immigration. We account for attitude variations brought about by the 2015 Europe's refugee crisis in two geopolitical regions of the continent, namely the EU East and the EU west. We found that, the 2015 refugee crisis sparked different attitudinal reaction between these regions r…
The role of personality traits and political trust in people’s attitudes toward EU membership
Whereas the role of personality traits and political trust have long been argued to impact people's political attitudes, only recently have scholars of the European Union (EU) integration begun to take them into consideration while trying to explain people's attitudes toward the EU. In an effort to explain the support for EU membership among citizens of Albania and Kosovo, we build a series of ordered probit models using as key independent variab…
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans
An ally to the people: EU membership conditionality and Albanians’ attitudes toward EU membership
EU membership conditionality has been conceptualized as a dialogue between the EU and power elites of countries that aspire to join the Union. Research that inquire into the association between support for EU membership and conditions that the EU imposes on countries that aspire to join the Union remains scarce. Relying on data from a simple random sample of cellphone random digit dialing collected in summer 2015 in Albania, we found that people'…
Between Elite Compliance and State Socialisation: The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Eastern Europe
Social constructivist theorists have sought to explain how international norms proliferate from democratic to democratising countries. The contributors of this literature claim that this entire process is based on efforts to change leaders' beliefs, thus shifting the process from simply elite compliance to state socialisation. Yet, elite socialisation might not mean state socialisation unless democratising countries' societies at large appropriat…
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania
The dominant knowledge in the extant literature is that citizens in EU member countries are not receptive toward the EU message, but rather perceive it from a domestic politics perspective. However, recent research has shown that people in EU membership-aspiring countries from Southeastern Europe might not be as intransigent toward the EU message. What that literature has not highlighted thus far is the type of EU message. Whereas EU normative me…
Blurring Lines of Responsibility: How Institutional Context Affects Citizen Biases Regarding Policy Problems
Existing research suggests that individuals assign responsibility for policy problems based on prior biases like partisanship. However, what remains speculation is whether institutions that blur lines of responsibility elicit more biased responsibility-assignment when compared to institutions with clearer lines of responsibility. European Union enlargement provides an opportunity to examine responsibility-assignment for policy problems within mul…
Trump sympathy in the Balkans: Cross-border populist appeal
Do populist leaders tend to win support from the same kinds of people abroad as they do at home? Since we know public opinion can shape foreign policy, the answer is important for understanding populists’ potential to carry out their typically anti-establishment international agendas. We address this question through original surveys in three Southeast European EU-aspiring countries on one populist leader (US President Donald Trump), establishing…
Discovering neighbors: The Regional Migration Experience as a Source of Intergroup Contact
Invasiveness, Intrusiveness and Influence: Three New Metrics to Measure Communication Between Political Digital Echo Chambers
EU membership conditionality in promoting acceptance of peremptory human rights norms: A case study in Albania considering public opinion
Since its inception, European Union membership conditionality has played a major role in bringing EU candidate countries from former communist Eastern Europe in line with international human rights norms. In spite of such progress, those societies harbour significant inconsistencies in both their perception of what constitutes human rights and the role public trust in domestic and international actors plays in those perceptions. By highlighting t…
The role of ethnic divisions in people’s attitudes toward the death penalty: The case of the Albanians
Are there specific ethnocultural features that make people support the death penalty, or does support of capital punishment simply reflect people’s position vis-à-vis power? Much of the existing research on this topic has been developed in the absence of an appropriate control group. However, this question can be answered only if ethnonational culture remains constant across different political and socioeconomic settings. In order to achieve such…
In Search of the Private, Public, and Counterpublic: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postsocialism
The aim of this article is to once again analyze the development of the private and public spheres in the three latest stages in the evolution of human society—modernity, postmodernity, and postsocialism—with a focus on the last. The evolutionary nature of social development makes necessary a retrospective analysis, for it would be almost impossible to sketch the contemporary shape of the private, public, and counterpublic in postsocialism withou…
Asylum in the Balkans: European Union and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees assistance to Balkan countries for establishing asylum systems
The externalization of EU asylum and immigration policy that arose from the EU Council of Seville bears the conflicting dichotomy that is proven detrimental to the EU asylum and immigration reform: the contradiction between principles of human rights on the one hand, and that of internal security on the other. However, in the EU foreign policy, the element of internal security seems to prevail. There exists only a limited need to pacify dissented…
Between Elite Compliance and State Socialisation: The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Eastern Europe
Social constructivist theorists have sought to explain how international norms proliferate from democratic to democratising countries. The contributors of this literature claim that this entire process is based on efforts to change leaders' beliefs, thus shifting the process from simply elite compliance to state socialisation. Yet, elite socialisation might not mean state socialisation unless democratising countries' societies at large appropriat…
In Search of the Private, Public, and Counterpublic: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postsocialism
The aim of this article is to once again analyze the development of the private and public spheres in the three latest stages in the evolution of human society—modernity, postmodernity, and postsocialism—with a focus on the last. The evolutionary nature of social development makes necessary a retrospective analysis, for it would be almost impossible to sketch the contemporary shape of the private, public, and counterpublic in postsocialism withou…
A Ghost from the Future: The Postsocialist Myth of Capitalism and the Ideological Suspension of Postmodernity
There is a widespread tendency to see the perils of postsocialism in the revival of the ghosts and myths from the past—namely ethnocentrism, nationalism, exclusiveness, bickering, collectivist-authoritarianism, expansionist chauvinism, and victimisation. I suggest that postsocialism's perils rest with a myth from the future, namely, the myth of capitalism. Those perils, I argue, are rooted in the fetishisation of capitalism by the postsocialist s…
The role of ethnic divisions in people’s attitudes toward the death penalty: The case of the Albanians
Are there specific ethnocultural features that make people support the death penalty, or does support of capital punishment simply reflect people’s position vis-à-vis power? Much of the existing research on this topic has been developed in the absence of an appropriate control group. However, this question can be answered only if ethnonational culture remains constant across different political and socioeconomic settings. In order to achieve such…
EU membership conditionality in promoting acceptance of peremptory human rights norms: A case study in Albania considering public opinion
Since its inception, European Union membership conditionality has played a major role in bringing EU candidate countries from former communist Eastern Europe in line with international human rights norms. In spite of such progress, those societies harbour significant inconsistencies in both their perception of what constitutes human rights and the role public trust in domestic and international actors plays in those perceptions. By highlighting t…
An ally to the people: EU membership conditionality and Albanians’ attitudes toward EU membership
EU membership conditionality has been conceptualized as a dialogue between the EU and power elites of countries that aspire to join the Union. Research that inquire into the association between support for EU membership and conditions that the EU imposes on countries that aspire to join the Union remains scarce. Relying on data from a simple random sample of cellphone random digit dialing collected in summer 2015 in Albania, we found that people'…
The role of personality traits and political trust in people’s attitudes toward EU membership
Whereas the role of personality traits and political trust have long been argued to impact people's political attitudes, only recently have scholars of the European Union (EU) integration begun to take them into consideration while trying to explain people's attitudes toward the EU. In an effort to explain the support for EU membership among citizens of Albania and Kosovo, we build a series of ordered probit models using as key independent variab…
Nationalistic education and its colourful role in intergroup prejudice reduction: Lessons from Albania
Contributors to the education-as-enlightenment approach maintain that education helps to create less prejudicial individuals. This conclusion, emanating mainly from data collected in western democracies that apply multicultural education might not apply to countries where education’s primary goal is the establishment of a sense of national unity and belonging. On the one hand, nationalist education could reduce prejudices against groups not targe…
Trump sympathy in the Balkans: Cross-border populist appeal
Do populist leaders tend to win support from the same kinds of people abroad as they do at home? Since we know public opinion can shape foreign policy, the answer is important for understanding populists’ potential to carry out their typically anti-establishment international agendas. We address this question through original surveys in three Southeast European EU-aspiring countries on one populist leader (US President Donald Trump), establishing…
Individual similarities and regional differences: The impact of 2015 refugee crisis on Europeans’ attitudes toward immigration
Whereas the extant literature has found similarities in attitudes toward immigration to Europe, there is less attention on European East–West attitudinal differences on immigration. We account for attitude variations brought about by the 2015 Europe's refugee crisis in two geopolitical regions of the continent, namely the EU East and the EU west. We found that, the 2015 refugee crisis sparked different attitudinal reaction between these regions r…
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania
The dominant knowledge in the extant literature is that citizens in EU member countries are not receptive toward the EU message, but rather perceive it from a domestic politics perspective. However, recent research has shown that people in EU membership-aspiring countries from Southeastern Europe might not be as intransigent toward the EU message. What that literature has not highlighted thus far is the type of EU message. Whereas EU normative me…
Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans
Blurring Lines of Responsibility: How Institutional Context Affects Citizen Biases Regarding Policy Problems
Existing research suggests that individuals assign responsibility for policy problems based on prior biases like partisanship. However, what remains speculation is whether institutions that blur lines of responsibility elicit more biased responsibility-assignment when compared to institutions with clearer lines of responsibility. European Union enlargement provides an opportunity to examine responsibility-assignment for policy problems within mul…
Mother Teresa: The Saint and Her Nation. By Gëzim Alpion
In her acceptance speech of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa stated: “By blood and origin I am all Albanian. My citizenship is Indian. I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the whole world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus” (p. 1). Whereas her identity features encapsulated by sentences 2–5 in this quote have laid the foundations of Mother Teresa studies, her ethnic identity has remained almost unexplo…
Discovering neighbors: The Regional Migration Experience as a Source of Intergroup Contact
Invasiveness, Intrusiveness and Influence: Three New Metrics to Measure Communication Between Political Digital Echo Chambers
Political Science as a Science: Exploring Political Science Students’ Perception of their Discipline as Science
The role of interviewer-respondent gender dyads in cellphone interview retention and length
Public Diplomacy–Dissonant Events and Country Favorability: Effects of Trump’s Election in the Balkans
Governments care about their countries’ images abroad, often investing millions in “public diplomacy” to burnish favorability and legitimate foreign policy actions and alignments. Many make democracy central to such efforts. What happens to such a country’s image when elections produce victory for illiberal political forces? Developing a new theory on the foreign reputational impact of “public diplomacy–dissonant” (PDD) events, we present two sur…
Differential personality predictors and contextuality in human rights support: How the Big-Five personality model predicts support for human rights in a post-ethnic conflict society
In the debate between the universal versus contextual dimension of attitudes toward human rights, we argue that personality can explain differences in support for human rights, and that different personality traits tend to show different predictive stability across different issues. In this proto-theoretical effort, we argue that different contexts may affect differently the direction of personality traits in support for human rights. We found th…
You Can Go Your Own Way: How Transit-Country Migration Attitudes Are Influenced by European Union Ideals
Measuring the communication between multiple digital political echo chambers: Multidimensional Invasiveness, Intrusiveness, and Influence
Left–Right Ideological Identification in Kosovo: When Sociopolitical Attitudes Walk through the Minefield of Ideological Self-identification and Party Preference
Occasionally, people and political parties in Kosovo self-identify with the left–right spectrum. But what does this identification really mean? Holding the findings from the Western democracies about the impact of personality traits on people’s ideological orientation as references, the authors compared how the same traits explain Kosovo citizens’ identification along both a self-reported ideological identification and a left–right ideological in…
Political science (22 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · European union (6 works)