and the media in influencing the economy and determining its actual course. In particular, this framework may be of help … in elucidating the complex role of the media in contemporary democratic societies. For this purpose, a simple … media. The first three form the three corners of a triangle while the media play an intermediating role among them. The …

deprive the latter of contributing to their representative variables or canonical variates. Our proposed Representation … solution. By a proper choice of λ, one can avoid hijacking of the representation issue of two datasets by a lone couple of …

representation to weakly correlated variables also. The method has been applied to data of 125 countries and the HDI so constructed …

only weakly informative of representation. For example, if the top decile cutoff is lower for minority than majority … the under-representation. In this paper, we propose a direct measure of the representation of a population subgroup, which … representation index is easily generalised to condition on characteristics (such as age, education, etc). Further, it generalizes …

representation to the poorly correlated variables, it is elitist. The PCA index is often elitist, particularly for an under … alleviate the representation of poorly correlated variables for some small reduction in the overall explanatory power (vis …-à-vis the PCA index). These indices are inclusive in nature, caring for the representation of the poorly correlated variables …

This paper uses the Dornbusch and Edwards (1990) analytical framework to investigate the macroeconomic populism in Iran …