Outputs (564)

What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics (2023)
Journal Article
Byrne, C., & Randall, N. (2024). What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics. British Politics, 19, 26-45. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-023-00247-w

Research on British politics has traditionally been too reliant on a single model for understanding its field of inquiry—initially the Westminster model and then, since the 2000s, the governance-focused ‘differentiated polity model’. It has also been... Read More about What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics.

(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali (2023)
Journal Article
Bertrand, E., Chafer, T., & Stoddard, E. (2024). (Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18(3), 286-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2278268

Employing the concept of ‘utility of force' and advancing a new counterpart – the ‘disutility of force' – this article explores why France's military intervention in Mali failed despite a major French material power advantage over the armed groups it... Read More about (Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali.

Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures: the US government's intervention in Guatemala (2023)
Journal Article
Trenta, L., Fahey, K. T., & Atkinson, D. B. (2024). Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures: the US government's intervention in Guatemala. Intelligence and National Security, 39(4), 579-598. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2023.2279317

Recent scholarship debates the signaling function of secrecy and covertness. At the international level, covertness is used to achieve strategic objectives without risking escalation or openly violating international law. Domestically, secrecy is und... Read More about Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures: the US government's intervention in Guatemala.

Does citizen participation make public servants more satisfied with their jobs? It depends on whether they are Spectators or Participants (2023)
Journal Article
Islam, K. M., Meyer‐Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K. S., Rahman, T., & Schuster, C. (2023). Does citizen participation make public servants more satisfied with their jobs? It depends on whether they are Spectators or Participants. Public Administration and Development, 43(5), 381-392. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.2031

Is citizen participation in policymaking and implementation desirable? Numerous studies have explored its effects on policy outcomes and citizen attitudes. We, instead, examine its effects on public servants. Citizen participation changes public sect... Read More about Does citizen participation make public servants more satisfied with their jobs? It depends on whether they are Spectators or Participants.

MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements (2023)
Journal Article
Burns, T. (2023). MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231215713

This article examines the views of Hegel and Alasdair MacIntyre regarding philosophical disagreements, whether or not they can be resolved and if so how. For both thinkers such a disagreement is thought of as taking place between the advocates of two... Read More about MacIntyre and Hegel on the possibility of resolving philosophical disagreements.

Making universal education a priority for sustainable development: The EU, Vietnam and education (2023)
Journal Article
Gegout, C. (2024). Making universal education a priority for sustainable development: The EU, Vietnam and education. Global Policy, 15(1), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13298

This article highlights the need to bring education to the forefront of EU policies to promote sustainable development in Vietnam. The EU is increasingly concerned with promoting sustainable development worldwide. It does this in its aid policies, an... Read More about Making universal education a priority for sustainable development: The EU, Vietnam and education.

The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957 (2023)
Book Chapter
Bennett, H., & Burke, E. (2023). The Aden Protectorate Levies, Counter-insurgency and the Loyalist Bargain in South Arabia, 1951-1957. In G. Curless, & M. Thomas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies. Oxford University Press

Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations: what connections? (2023)
Journal Article
Dardanelli, P., Kincaid, J., Adeney, K., Moscovich, L., Olmeda, J. C., Schlegel, R., uberu, R., Boni, F., & Lacroix Eussler, S. (2023). Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations: what connections?. Regional and Federal Studies, 33(5), 577-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2023.2274861

What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politico-institutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization... Read More about Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations: what connections?.

Party and Party System Institutionalization: Which Comes First? (2023)
Journal Article
Casal Bértoa, F., Enyedi, Z., & Mölder, M. (2023). Party and Party System Institutionalization: Which Comes First?. Perspectives on Politics, 22(1), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592723002530

Parties and party systems are treated as separate phenomena in theory, but not in research practice. This is most clearly so in the literature on the institutionalization of party politics, where the party level and the systemic levels are often anal... Read More about Party and Party System Institutionalization: Which Comes First?.

Marx’s Capital and the concept of super-exploitation (2023)
Journal Article
Burns, T. (in press). Marx’s Capital and the concept of super-exploitation. Capital and Class, https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231199913

This article explores the theory of exploitation which Marx sets out in Capital. It argues that Marx assumes there that there are five modes of extraction of surplus value. These are associated with the following principles: 1. extended duration of t... Read More about Marx’s Capital and the concept of super-exploitation.