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Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation (2015)
Book
(2015). A. Fulda (Ed.), Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

This book focuses on the question of whether and how civil society may contribute to policy innovation. As the focus of civil society research is often more on the constraints on civil society by the state and less on the agency and effects of civil... Read More about Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation.

Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels? (2015)
Book
Daniel, W. T. (2015). Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198716402.001.0001

This book presents an institutional theory for career behaviour in the European Parliament (EP). By focusing on the professional ambition of members of the EP (MEPs), the study presents a rigorous analysis of the powerful multinational legislature fr... Read More about Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?.

Introduction: The Future of Democracy (2015)
Journal Article
Adeney, K., & Taggart, P. (2015). Introduction: The Future of Democracy. Government and Opposition, 50(03), 325-335. doi:10.1017/gov.2015.12

In this article the special issue on the future of democracy is introduced with a discussion of the rationale and a brief overview of the contributions that follow. In addition the authors highlight four major themes that run through the special is... Read More about Introduction: The Future of Democracy.

What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia (2015)
Journal Article
Trumm, S. (2016). What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia. East European Politics and Societies, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325415577862

The literature on post-communist democracies has traditionally suggested that organisational strength is considerably less important for electoral success than extensive media-based campaigns. Recent studies on party-level electoral dynamics, however... Read More about What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia.

Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism (2015)
Journal Article
O'Hara, K., & Stevens, D. (in press). Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism. Policy and Internet, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.88

This article considers claims made by various authors that the use of filtering and recommendation technology on the Internet can deprive certain communities of feedback, and instead amplify groups' viewpoints, leading to polarization of opinion acro... Read More about Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism.

A move to majoritarian nationalism?: challenges of representation in South Asia (2015)
Journal Article
Adeney, K. (2015). A move to majoritarian nationalism?: challenges of representation in South Asia. Representation, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2015.1026213

Despite India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and increasing turnouts in many of the countries of South Asia, recent elections raise concerns about the threat to democracy in the form of majoritarianism. Many of the countries of South Asia... Read More about A move to majoritarian nationalism?: challenges of representation in South Asia.

Slavery as a Social Institution (2015)
Book Chapter
Bales, K. (2015). Slavery as a Social Institution. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 43-48. (2nd). Elsevier

Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament (2015)
Journal Article
Trumm, S. (2015). Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament. Journal of Common Market Studies, 53(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12237

Parliamentary representation is a fluid concept. Yet, while the behaviour of elected representatives during roll call votes has been widely analysed, we know little about how parliamentarians act when their individual voting choices are not made publ... Read More about Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament.

Risky business: factor analysis of survey data – assessing the probability of incorrect dimensionalisation (2015)
Journal Article
van der Eijk, C., & Rose, J. (2015). Risky business: factor analysis of survey data – assessing the probability of incorrect dimensionalisation. PLoS ONE, 10(3), Article 0118900. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118900

This paper undertakes a systematic assessment of the extent to which factor analysis the correct number of latent dimensions (factors) when applied to ordered categorical survey items (so-called Likert items). We simulate 2400 data sets of uni-dimens... Read More about Risky business: factor analysis of survey data – assessing the probability of incorrect dimensionalisation.

Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8 (2015)
Journal Article
Gill, D. J. (2015). Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8. Economic History Review, 68(3), 1016-1037. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12095

The UK received its first sovereign credit ratings in 1978. Despite having required financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund only 18 months earlier, the British government managed to secure ‘triple-A’ ratings from both Standard and P... Read More about Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8.

Modern slavery research: the UK picture (2015)
Report
Bales, K., Hedwards, B., Silverman, B., Costaguta, L., Trodd, Z., & Wright, N. (2015). Modern slavery research: the UK picture. Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner's Office