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Methodological challenges of experiments in social media

Experiments in social media have rapidly become an important method in social science. However, there are a number of methodological problems connected to this method. One of these is the fact that social media are dominated by a small number of information oligopolists such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Since the service provider has control over the information and the algorithms that stru

Hail the Tattletale

In the US, whistle blowers who help uncover illegal offlabel promotion are usually awarded 15-25 percent of any recovered damages. Does incentivizing informants deter off-label drug marketing – and should other countries follow suit?

Weak States, Uncivil Societies and Thousands of NGOs: Benevolent Colonialism in the Balkans

This paper discusses whether the Western democracy promotion project of exporting civil society to the Balkans is a form of colonialism. In particular, it deals with they system of project life, and project culture which has structured Western development interventions. Examples come from the author's own work as consultant in Bosnia, Albania and Romania in the field of civil society/NGO developme