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The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament (2019)
Journal Article
Aldrich, A. S., & Daniel, W. T. (2019). The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament. Politics and Gender, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000291

Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2019. This article explores the consequences of quotas on the level of diversity observed in legislators' professional and political experience. We exam... Read More about The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament.

Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context (2019)
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Walter, A. S., & van der Eijk, C. (2019). Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21(3), 612-629. https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148119842038

This study examines effects of negative campaigning by political parties on citizens’ electoral preferences in the 2015 General Election in England. We do so by using a large Internet panel study and an operationalisation of (perceived) negative camp... Read More about Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context.

Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation (2019)
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Gill, M. J., McGivern, G., Sturdy, A., Pereira, S., Gill, D. J., & Dopson, S. (2020). Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation. British Journal of Management, 31(3), 470-486. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12372

Organizational scholars increasingly view institutionalization as a process through which actors adapt or translate seemingly successful practices in a field to create variations that are specific to their own organization. Yet little is known about... Read More about Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation.

Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments (2019)
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Burcu, O. (2019). Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments. European Political Science, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-019-00212-6

Group work is an essential aspect of our personal, educational and professional development, yet it is not a common method of assessment in Politics and International Relations departments at British Universities. This study explores how instructors... Read More about Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments.

Russian responses to the changing character of war (2019)
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Renz, B. (2019). Russian responses to the changing character of war. International Affairs, 95(4), 817-834. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz100

For much of the post-Soviet era there was a widespread belief that improving capabilities required for dealing with local small wars and insurgencies was the central focus of Russian military reforms. As a result, Moscow's military assertiveness and... Read More about Russian responses to the changing character of war.

Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy (2019)
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Rendall, M. (2019). Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy. Ethics, 129(3), 441-463. https://doi.org/10.1086/701481

Discounting future costs and benefits is often defended on the ground that our descendants will be richer. Simply to treat the future as better off, however, is to commit an ecological fallacy. Even if our descendants are better off when we average... Read More about Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy.

Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias (2019)
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Walter, A., & Van der Eijk, C. (2019). Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias. International Journal of Press/Politics, 24(3), 363-382. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161219843404

We compare measures of the tone of parties’ campaigns in the 2015 General Election in England, based on, respectively, coverage of parties’ campaigns in six national newspapers, citizens’ perceptions, and expert judgments. It is the most extensive st... Read More about Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
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Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation (2019)
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Mccabe, H. (2019). Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation. Utilitas, 31(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820819000074

The role of the 'ideal' in political philosophy is currently much discussed. These debates cast useful light on Mill's self-designation as 'under the general designation of Socialist'. Considering Mill's assessment of potential property-relations on... Read More about Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation.