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The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures (2022)
Journal Article
Uscinski, J. E., Smallpage, S. M., Enders, A. M., & Drochon, H. (2022). The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 555-569. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.1

Polls asking respondents about their beliefs in conspiracy theories have become increasingly commonplace. However, researchers have expressed concern about the willingness of respondents to divulge beliefs in conspiracy theories due to the stigmatiza... Read More about The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures.

Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19 (2022)
Report
Brewster, B., Robinson, G., Brotherton, V., Silverman, B., & Walsh, D. (2022). Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19. Economics and Social Research Council

The second briefing from ongoing research indicates that restrictions introduced in response to Covid-19 have forced adaptations in the methods used by County Lines drug supply networks and have impacted upon the ways law enforcement work to detect a... Read More about Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19.

Activating the "Big Man": Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies (2022)
Journal Article
Harris, A. S., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Sass Mikkelsen, K. (2022). Activating the "Big Man": Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac009/6532599

Public service delivery by African states is often characterized as particularist, favoring ethnic, personal or political networks of those inside the state over universalist, pro-social services to citizens. One explanation for particularist service... Read More about Activating the "Big Man": Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies.

Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States (2022)
Journal Article
Sigman, R., Harris, A. S., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Schuster, C. (2022). Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States. Journal of Development Studies, 58(4), 639-655. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.2013468

The resource curse literature argues that oil production reshapes the fiscal contract between citizens and the state: politicians become less responsive to citizen taxpayers and more likely to use public revenues for their own benefit. This paper exa... Read More about Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States.

Terror as justice, justice as terror: counterterrorism and anti-Black racism in the United States (2022)
Journal Article
Meier, A. A. (2022). Terror as justice, justice as terror: counterterrorism and anti-Black racism in the United States. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(1), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2031132

How do counterterrorism policies in the United States reproduce anti-Black racism? Research on U.S. domestic counterterrorism post-9/11 has largely focused on the experiences of Muslim Americans while marginalising both overlapping and separate effec... Read More about Terror as justice, justice as terror: counterterrorism and anti-Black racism in the United States.

Wealth, power and institutional change in Tanzania’s parliament (2022)
Journal Article
Collord, M. (2022). Wealth, power and institutional change in Tanzania’s parliament. African Affairs, 121(482), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac008

Tanzania’s legislature, or Bunge, has undergone considerable change in recent decades, gradually strengthening to attain unprecedented influence during Jakaya Kikwete’s presidency (2005–2015) only to decline again under President John Magufuli (2015–... Read More about Wealth, power and institutional change in Tanzania’s parliament.

Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments (2022)
Journal Article
Chauhan, V., Crowley, T., Fisher, A., McCabe, H., & Williams, H. (2022). Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments. Metaphilosophy, 53(1), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12538

Should philosophy of race be taught as part of a philosophy degree? This paper argues that it should. After surveying 1,166 modules on offer in 2019–2020, across forty-seven philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, however, the authors identifie... Read More about Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments.

Participatory Photography, Ethical Storytelling, and Modern Slavery Survivor Voices: Adapting to COVID-19 (2022)
Book Chapter
Haji, A. A., Baya, R., Brady, E., McCabe, H., Manji, Y., & Otiende, S. (2022). Participatory Photography, Ethical Storytelling, and Modern Slavery Survivor Voices: Adapting to COVID-19. In M. do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, R. Gutwald, T. Kleibl, R. Lutz, N. Noyoo, & J. Twikirize (Eds.), The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development: Global Perspectives (371-380). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84678-7_31

Conducting a truly participatory research project between partners in the Global North and Global South brings challenges in normal circumstances, yet when the COVID-19 pandemic forced our project to pause, we overcame multiple additional challenges... Read More about Participatory Photography, Ethical Storytelling, and Modern Slavery Survivor Voices: Adapting to COVID-19.

Marxism and the Concept of a Social Formation: An Immanent Critique of the Views of Jairus Banaji (2022)
Journal Article
Burns, T. (2022). Marxism and the Concept of a Social Formation: An Immanent Critique of the Views of Jairus Banaji. Science and Society, 86(1), 38-65. https://doi.org/10.1521/SISO.2022.86.1.38

Jairus Banaji associates the concept of a social formation (involving modal combination, or the articulation of modes of production) with "vulgar Marxism." This includes both the Marxism of the Second International and the structuralist Marxism of Lo... Read More about Marxism and the Concept of a Social Formation: An Immanent Critique of the Views of Jairus Banaji.