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The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs (2014)
Journal Article
Cockayne, J. (2014). The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs. Journal of Strategic Studies, 37(5), 736-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2014.901911

Confronted by non-conventional non-state military forces enjoying high – but very localized – social legitimacy, the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) struggled between 2004 and 2007 to embed the use of force in a larger strategy of state co... Read More about The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs.

The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics (2014)
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Ryan, J. B., & Milazzo, C. (2015). The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics. Political Behavior, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-014-9276-2

This paper explains changes in partisanship among Catholics in the last quarter of the 20th Century using a theory of partisan change centered on the contexts in which Catholics lived. Catholics were part of the post-New Deal Democratic coalition, bu... Read More about The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics.

Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model (2014)
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Datta, M. N., & Bales, K. (2014). Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model. Human Rights Quarterly, 36(2), 277-295. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2014.0025

Since the passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act and the United Nations Palermo Protocols of 2000, there has been an increased focus on the magnitude and complexity of modern day slavery. Yet, surprisingly, little empirical... Read More about Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model.

Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis (2014)
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Bieler, A. (2014). Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis. Global Labour Journal, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v5i2.1154

The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements... Read More about Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis.

“Close but no cigar”: the measurement of corruption (2014)
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Heywood, P. M., & Rose, J. (2014). “Close but no cigar”: the measurement of corruption. Journal of Public Policy, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X14000099

The financial cost of corruption has recently been estimated at more than 5 per cent of global GDP. Yet, despite the widespread agreement that corruption is one of the most pressing policy challenges facing world leaders, it remains as widespread tod... Read More about “Close but no cigar”: the measurement of corruption.

‘We no longer love you, but we don’t want to leave you’: the Eurozone crisis and popular Euroscepticism in Greece (2014)
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Clements, B., Nanou, K., & Verney, S. (in press). ‘We no longer love you, but we don’t want to leave you’: the Eurozone crisis and popular Euroscepticism in Greece. Journal of European Integration / Revue d'Intégration Européenne, 36, https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2014.885753

This article analyses whether and how public opinion towards the European Union (EU) in Greece has changed in the context of the current Eurozone crisis. It provides the first detailed treatment of how the crisis has affected citizens’ views in a tra... Read More about ‘We no longer love you, but we don’t want to leave you’: the Eurozone crisis and popular Euroscepticism in Greece.

John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion (2014)
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McCabe, H. (2014). John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion. Informal Logic, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v34i1.3869

In his youth, John Stuart Mill followed his father’s philosophy of persuasion but, in 1830, Mill adopted a new philosophy of persuasion, trying to lead people incrementally towards the truth from their original stand-points rather than engage them an... Read More about John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion.

Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education (2014)
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Stevens, D. (in press). Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 33(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-014-9403-x

Proponents of environmentalist views often urge the teaching of such views and the inculcation of ‘green’ values within the educational curriculum of schools as a key component of achieving their ends. It might seem that modern versions of political... Read More about Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education.

From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies (2014)
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Bolleyer, N., & Trumm, S. (2014). From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies. European Journal of Political Research, 53(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12051

While direct state funding of political parties has been a prominent theme in cross-national research over the last decade, we still know little about party strategies to access state resources that are not explicitly earmarked for partisan usage. Th... Read More about From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies.