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Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children (2022)
Report
Robinson, G., Brewster, B., Brotherton, V., Silverman, B., & Walsh, D. (2022). Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children. Economic and Social Research Council

This is the third briefing from research investigating the impacts of Covid-19 on child criminal exploitation and County Lines. Findings indicate that restrictions introduced in response to the pandemic have hindered the ability of youth workers to s... Read More about Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children.

Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia (2022)
Journal Article
Trumm, S. (2022). Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia. East European Politics, 38(3), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2086861

The literature on post-communist democracies has traditionally suggested that expensive media-based campaigns are key to electoral success. Using data from the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Estonian Candidate Study, this article provides an up-to-date evaluat... Read More about Winning votes: the comparative importance of money and time on parliamentary candidates’ electoral performance in Estonia.

The World Isn’t Fair, but Shouldn’t Elections Be? Evaluating Prospective Beliefs about the Fairness of Elections and Referenda (2022)
Journal Article
Rose, J., & van der Eijk, C. (2022). The World Isn’t Fair, but Shouldn’t Elections Be? Evaluating Prospective Beliefs about the Fairness of Elections and Referenda. Societies, 12(3), Article 85. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12030085

Almost all academic literature about the causes and consequences of fairness of elections and referenda is based on retrospective evaluations. One of the strongest findings of such studies is that nonvoting is higher among citizens who retrospectivel... Read More about The World Isn’t Fair, but Shouldn’t Elections Be? Evaluating Prospective Beliefs about the Fairness of Elections and Referenda.

Public policy in multi-level systems: A new research agenda for the study of regional-level policy (2022)
Journal Article
Kleider, H., & Toubeau, S. (2022). Public policy in multi-level systems: A new research agenda for the study of regional-level policy. Regional and Federal Studies, 32(3), 277-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.2018681

While there is a cumulative research programme on the causes of decentralization to regional and local governments, research on its policy consequences is less integrated. This article takes stock of the existing research on the policy consequences o... Read More about Public policy in multi-level systems: A new research agenda for the study of regional-level policy.

UK Defence Policy After Ukraine: Revisiting the Integrated Review (2022)
Journal Article
Magill, P., & Rees, W. (2022). UK Defence Policy After Ukraine: Revisiting the Integrated Review. Survival, 64(3), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2022.2078048

The 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy signified a major change in United Kingdom’s defence thinking because it identified China as the foremost threat to its long-term security interests. The resulting tilt t... Read More about UK Defence Policy After Ukraine: Revisiting the Integrated Review.

Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery: Analysing Marriage as a “Choiceless Choice”. (2022)
Journal Article
McCabe, H., Baumeister, H., & Stickle, W. (2022). Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery: Analysing Marriage as a “Choiceless Choice”. Journal of Modern Slavery, 7(2), 33-57

Several international conventions, and domestic law in fifty-two countries, ban forced marriage, and Human Rights conventions insist that marriage should only be entered into with the “free and full consent” of both parties. Using rational choice the... Read More about Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery: Analysing Marriage as a “Choiceless Choice”..

Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Park, S. (2022). Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory. Public Management Review, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2051064

Existing studies based on institutional or rationalist approaches have limitations in explaining changes in individual ethical behaviour and thus propose social psychological models that can offer alternative explanations. We conduct surveys of over... Read More about Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory.

China's "wolf warrior diplomacy:" The interaction of formal diplomacy and cyber-nationalism (2022)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., & Wang, W. (2023). China's "wolf warrior diplomacy:" The interaction of formal diplomacy and cyber-nationalism. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52(1), 68-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026221079841

For all the popular interest in “wolf warrior diplomacy,” scant attention has been paid to the internal logics and mechanics of representative communications, notably the intersection with grassroots cyber-nationalism. Centring the connections betwee... Read More about China's "wolf warrior diplomacy:" The interaction of formal diplomacy and cyber-nationalism.

(Extreme) political polarization and party patronage (2022)
Journal Article
Kopecký, P., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Spirova, M. (2022). (Extreme) political polarization and party patronage. Irish Political Studies, 37(2), 218-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2022.2045143

The contemporary literature on political parties has identified their gradual but consistent shift away from civil society and towards the state. As parties are becoming ever increasingly dependent on state resources and exclusively interested in gov... Read More about (Extreme) political polarization and party patronage.