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Public debt and intergenerational ethics: how to fund a clean technology 'Apollo program'? (2021)
Journal Article
Rendall, M. (2021). Public debt and intergenerational ethics: how to fund a clean technology 'Apollo program'?. Climate Policy, 21(7), 976-982. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.1935679

If the present generation refuses to bear the burden of mitigating global heating, could we motivate sufficient action by shifting that burden to our descendants? Several writers have proposed breaking the political impasse by funding mitigation thro... Read More about Public debt and intergenerational ethics: how to fund a clean technology 'Apollo program'?.

Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector (2021)
Book Chapter
Jardine, A., Trautrims, A., & Gardner, A. (2021). Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector. In S. Gold, M. G. Arnold, J. N. Muthuri, & X. Rueda (Eds.), Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Hand car washing, the process of washing a vehicle by hand, is a relatively new business activity in the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to 2004, hand car washes (HCWs) were virtually non-existent (Clark & Colling, 2018). However, it is estimated that bet... Read More about Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector.

Consequences of Context: How the Social, Political and Economic Environment Affects Voting - Online Appendix, Version 1.0 (2021)
Other
(2021). Consequences of Context: How the Social, Political and Economic Environment Affects Voting - Online Appendix, Version 1.0. Mannheim

Online appendix with the book 'Consequences of Context - How the Social, Political and Economic Environment Affects Voting'. Contains additional findings, graphs, tables, analysis/replication syntaxes and scripts in Stata and R, contextual-informatio... Read More about Consequences of Context: How the Social, Political and Economic Environment Affects Voting - Online Appendix, Version 1.0.

How Pakistan and China Negotiate (2021)
Report
Adeney, K., & Boni, F. (2021). How Pakistan and China Negotiate. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment of International Peace

Since being officially launched in April 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been one of the most watched set of projects under the aegis of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Having already inj... Read More about How Pakistan and China Negotiate.

What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs (2021)
Journal Article
Cormac, R., Walton, C., & Puyvelde, D. V. (2021). What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs. Review of International Studies, 48(1), 111-128. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210521000231

Covert action has long been a controversial tool of international relations. However, there is remarkably little public understanding about whether it works and, more fundamentally, about what constitutes success in this shadowy arena of state activi... Read More about What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs.

Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (2021)
Book
Bieler, A. (2021). Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755640409

In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Gr... Read More about Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe.

Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Perrat, B., Li, X., Jackson, B., Landman, T., Ling, F., …Foody, G. M. (2021). Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z

This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics (2021)
Journal Article
Casal Bertoa, F., & Rama, J. (2022). Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics. Party Politics, 28(4), 611-624. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211015933

Focusing on the relationship between the access of political parties to direct public funding and electoral support for anti-political-establishment (e.g. populist, extremist) parties (APEp), this article tries to fill an important gap in the literat... Read More about Paying for appeasement: On the moderating role of public subsidies in East Central European party politics.

Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance? (2021)
Journal Article
Bieler, A., & Nowak, J. (2021). Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?. Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1915611

This article reflects on the insights generated by the contributions to the special issue on labour conflicts in the Global South. We emphasize first the need to go beyond Eurocentric industrial relations concepts forged in the historically specific... Read More about Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?.

Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot (2021)
Journal Article
Trumm, S. (2022). Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot. European Journal of Political Research, 61(2), 485-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12453

Internet is playing an increasingly important role in shaping citizens’ political experience. We turn to it to consume political news and, in some countries, to even cast our ballots at parliamentary elections. Leading the way in embracing Internet v... Read More about Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot.

Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China (2021)
Journal Article
Li, X., & Lee, C. (2021). Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China. Third World Quarterly, 42(7), 1601-1624. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1903309

This article explains the uneven distribution of industrialised villages in China through the application of modernisation theory and the theory of uneven and combined development. It adds to our understanding of China’s unevenness by employing a ‘bo... Read More about Uneven but not combined development: rural industrialisation on the East Coast of China.

J. V. Stalin and The British Road to Socialism (2021)
Journal Article
Pateman, J., & Pateman, J. (2021). J. V. Stalin and The British Road to Socialism. Labor History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2021.1919867

Joseph Stalin exerted substantial influence over the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), the largest Communist party in the United Kingdom between 1951 and 1991, as well as its intellectual successor, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), which... Read More about J. V. Stalin and The British Road to Socialism.

Rethinking sovereign default (2021)
Journal Article
Gill, D. J. (2021). Rethinking sovereign default. Review of International Political Economy, 28(6), 1751-1770. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1913439

Scholars continue to debate why states repay their debts to foreign creditors. The existing literature stresses the short-term economic and political costs that deter default, focusing on reputational damage, creditor reprisals, spillover costs, and... Read More about Rethinking sovereign default.

How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility (2021)
Journal Article
Walter, A., & Lipsitz, K. (2021). How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility. American Politics Research, 49(4), 359-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673x211004137

Citizen exposure to political incivility is increasing. Studies have found heterogeneous responses to incivility, but we know little about what drives this variation. This study investigates whether emotional responses to both civility and incivility... Read More about How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility.

(En)gendering post-conflict agency: Women’s experiences of the ‘local’ in Sierra Leone (2021)
Journal Article
Martin, L. S. (2021). (En)gendering post-conflict agency: Women’s experiences of the ‘local’ in Sierra Leone. Cooperation and Conflict, 56(4), 454-471. https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367211000798

This article explores how female agency and experience manifest in a local Sierra Leonean peacebuilding program known as Fambul Tok. While post-conflict literature, namely transitional justice and peacebuilding, has become more critical in recent yea... Read More about (En)gendering post-conflict agency: Women’s experiences of the ‘local’ in Sierra Leone.