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The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
Journal Article
Such, E., Gardner, A., Dang, M., Wright, N., Bravo-Balsa, L., Brotherton, V., Browne, H., Esiovwa, N., Jiménez, E., Lucas, B., Wyman, E., & Trodd, Z. (in press). The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2194760

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain (2023)
Journal Article
Tindall, C., & Trumm, S. (2024). Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain. British Politics, 19, 334-354. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-023-00233-2

Rising support for populist parties and candidates has become a key story of recent decades, making headlines in Western democracies and beyond. While a growing body of populism research focuses on how parties use populist messaging and which voters... Read More about Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain.

Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Seymour, R., Nyarko-Agyei, A., Severn, K., McCabe, H., Kypraios, T., Sirl, D., & Taylor, A. Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels

Forcing someone into marriage against their will is a violation of their human rights. In 2021, the county of Nottinghamshire, UK, launched a strategy to tackle forced marriage and violence against women and girls. However, accessing information abou... Read More about Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels.

Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer: Sexism, Racism, and Female Enlistment in World War II (2023)
Journal Article
Artiles, A., Treneska, J., Fahey, K., & Atkinson, D. B. (2023). Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer: Sexism, Racism, and Female Enlistment in World War II. PS: Political Science and Politics, 56(3), 383-389. https://doi.org/10.1017/S104909652300015X

What influenced women to volunteer for service in the US military during World War II? Whereas previous literature focused on potential intrinsic and extrinsic individual-level motives, we consider the broader structural context that may have played... Read More about Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer: Sexism, Racism, and Female Enlistment in World War II.

The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries (2023)
Journal Article
Schuster, C., Mikkelsen, K. S., Rogger, D., Fukuyama, F., Hasnain, Z., Mistree, D., Meyer‐Sahling, J., Bersch, K., & Kay, K. (2023). The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries. Public Administration Review, 83(4), 982-993. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13611

Understanding how public administrations around the world function and differ is crucial for strengthening their effectiveness. Most comparative measures of bureaucracy rely on surveys of experts, households, or firms, rather than directly questionin... Read More about The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries.

Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections (2023)
Journal Article
Duggan, A., & Milazzo, C. (2023). Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections. Electoral Studies, 83, Article 102600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102600

What drives British parliamentary candidates to attack their opponents? Using an original dataset of approximately 7500 general election leaflets from four elections between 2010 and 2019, we offer the first study into the conditions under which Brit... Read More about Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections.

Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle (2023)
Journal Article
Bieler, A., & Moore, M. (2023). Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle. Global Labour Journal, 14(1), 2-20. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v14i1.5074

The purpose of this article is to reflect on how we can conceptualise the multiple types of struggles over water. Through a historical materialist engagement with social reproduction theorists, post-colonial interventions and eco-socialism, we argue... Read More about Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle.

Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets (2023)
Journal Article
Tiniç, M., Sensoy, A., Akyildirim, E., & Corbet, S. (2023). Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets. Journal of Financial Research, 46(2), 497-546. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12317

In this article we investigate the influence that information asymmetry may have on future volatility, liquidity, market toxicity, and returns within cryptocurrency markets. We use the adverse-selection component of the effective spread as a proxy fo... Read More about Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets.