All Outputs (24)

The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning (2015)
Journal Article

Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communic... Read More about The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning.

Understanding the Support Needs of Human-Trafficking Victims: A Review of Three Human-Trafficking Program Evaluations (2015)
Journal Article

Human trafficking is a global crime and human rights violation that affects nearly every country of the world. Victims of human trafficking may suffer severe physical, psychological, and emotional health consequences as they are often subjected to a... Read More about Understanding the Support Needs of Human-Trafficking Victims: A Review of Three Human-Trafficking Program Evaluations.

Dream capitalism (2015)
Journal Article

John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness represents an heroic attempt to bridge the gap between Rawlsian ‘high liberals’ and the advocates of classical liberalism/contemporary libertarianism. I argue that Tomasi’s project fails, above all because it canno... Read More about Dream capitalism.

The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific (2015)
Journal Article

This article explains the origins of the Australia–New Zealand–United States (ANZUS) Treaty by highlighting U.S. ambitions in the Pacific region after World War II. Three clarifications to the historiography merit attention. First, an alliance with A... Read More about The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific.

Is the free market acceptable to everyone? (2015)
Journal Article

In this paper we take issue with two central claims that John Tomasi makes in Free Market Fairness (2012). The first claim is that Rawls’s difference principle can better be realized by free market institutions than it can be by state interventionist... Read More about Is the free market acceptable to everyone?.

How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum (2015)
Journal Article

Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understan... Read More about How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum.

Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012 (2015)
Journal Article

Strategic abstentions—in which legislators abstain from votes for ideological reasons—are a poorly understood feature of legislative voting records. The paper discusses a spatial model for legislators’ revealed preferences that accounts for abstentio... Read More about Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012.

Constructing a 'great' role for Britain in an age of austerity: interpreting coalition foreign policy, 2010-2015 (2015)
Journal Article

This article interprets the ideational underpinnings of the British Conservative–Liberal coalition government’s foreign policy from 2010 to 2015. It uses qualitative discourse analysis of speeches, statements and policy documents to unpack the tradit... Read More about Constructing a 'great' role for Britain in an age of austerity: interpreting coalition foreign policy, 2010-2015.

Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76 (2015)
Journal Article

This article argues that state violence in Northern Ireland during the period 1970–1976—when violence during the Troubles was at its height and before the re-introduction of the policy of police primacy in 1976—was on a greatly reduced scale from tha... Read More about Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76.

'Hell, No!' Labour's campaign: the correct diagnosis but the wrong doctor? (2015)
Journal Article

Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference (2015)
Journal Article

Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called ‘the argument from no difference’: that is, ‘if I don’t do it, someone else will’. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it ca... Read More about Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference.

Mere addition and the separateness of persons (2015)
Journal Article

How can we resist the repugnant conclusion? James Griffin has suggested that part way through the sequence we may reach a world—let us call it “J”— in which the lives are lexically superior to those that follow. If it would be better to live a single... Read More about Mere addition and the separateness of persons.

Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England (2015)
Journal Article

The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, i... Read More about Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England.

It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization (2015)
Journal Article

Although much has been written about the process of party system insti- tutionalization in different regions, the reasons why some party systems institutionalize while others do not still remain a mystery. Seeking to fill this lacuna in the literatur... Read More about It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization.

‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’ (2015)
Journal Article

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was waged by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’. This paper will examine how the war was a space in the ongoing geographical extension of global capitalism linked to U.S. foreign policy. Was it simply the decision b... Read More about ‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’.

The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign (2015)
Journal Article

Election campaigns are expected to inform voters about parties’ issue positions, thereby increasing voters’ ability to influence future policy and thus enhancing the practice of democratic government. We argue that campaign learning is not only conti... Read More about The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign.

John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’ (2015)
Journal Article

John Stuart Mill’s commitment to female equality has generally been acknowledged as positive, but certain passages have been damned as anti-feminist or myopic regarding the reality of patriarchy, and used as sticks with which to beat both Mill’s theo... Read More about John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’.

Introduction: The Future of Democracy (2015)
Journal Article

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

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

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.