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Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights (2020)
Journal Article
Wash, I. (2020). Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00621-9

© 2020, The Author(s). This article explains the value of discourse analysis for interpreting the construction and resolution of policy dilemmas in the field of international education. Its case material is drawn from official documents relating to i... Read More about Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights.

Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020)
Journal Article
Schwarz, K., & Nicholson, A. (2020). Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame. Human Rights Review, 21, 391-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-020-00604-y

The identification of contemporary forms of slavery is often problematically demarcated by reference to transatlantic enslavement as the definitive archetype. Such an approach overlooks other historic slaveries and neglects the totality of the maanga... Read More about Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame.

St. Augustine and Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of God (2020)
Journal Article
Burns, T. (2021). St. Augustine and Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of God. European Legacy, 26(1), 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2020.1793959

This article considers what St. Augustine has to say about administration (administrare) in The City of God, as well as in The Rule of St. Augustine and in Of the Work of Monks. Rather than focusing on Augustine’s political thought as traditionally u... Read More about St. Augustine and Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of God.

US Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive vs. Non-Extractive Sectors (2020)
Journal Article
De Soysa, I., Janz, N., & Vadlamannati, K. C. (2020). US Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive vs. Non-Extractive Sectors. Business and Society, 60(8), 2136-2174. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320928972

The consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) for human rights protection are poorly understood. We propose that the impact of FDI varies across industries. In particular, extractive firms in the oil and mining industries go where the resources... Read More about US Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive vs. Non-Extractive Sectors.

Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election (2020)
Journal Article
Spary, C. (2020). Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election. Contemporary South Asia, 28(2), 223-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2020.1765987

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Gender quota campaigns to increase women’s parliamentary presence in India have been ongoing for more than twenty years. Meanwhile, each general election results in the slow grow... Read More about Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election.