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Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy (2019)
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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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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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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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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.

Lenin without dogmatism (2019)
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A longstanding criticism of Lenin is that his epistemological contributions to the theory of scientific socialism prompted the decline of Marxism in dogmatism and despotism in the twentieth century. According to this narrative, Lenin claimed to posse... Read More about Lenin without dogmatism.

GlobalBritain™: the discursive construction of Britain’s post-Brexit world role (2019)
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Of the many dilemmas faced by Theresa May in negotiating Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, finding a workable narrative to explain Britain’s new world role post-Brexit proved one of the most intractable. She and her top government ministers alighted... Read More about GlobalBritain™: the discursive construction of Britain’s post-Brexit world role.

From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit's neo-republicanism (2019)
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© Bristol University Press 2019. In this paper, I bring Ernesto Laclau’s post-Marxist approach into conversation with the analytical thinker Philip Pettit, who has developed an influential neo-republican conception of freedom as ‘non-domination’. Bot... Read More about From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit's neo-republicanism.

The poverty of contractarian moral education (2019)
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In A Theory of Moral Education, Michael Hand claims that a directive moral education that seeks to persuade children that a particular conception of contractarian morality is justified can be undertaken without falling foul of the requirement not to... Read More about The poverty of contractarian moral education.

Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior (2019)
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Politicians’ moral behaviors affect how voters evaluate them. But existing empirical research on the effects of politicians’ violations of moral standards pays little attention to the heterogeneous moral foundations of voters in assessing responses t... Read More about Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior.

Nation, Migration, Identity: Learning from the Cross?Strait Context (2019)
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It has been argued that globalisation, with its flexible landscapes of production, consumption and mobility, has favoured the emergence of new forms of belonging and identity that are not necessarily built on such principles of the nation state. In t... Read More about Nation, Migration, Identity: Learning from the Cross?Strait Context.

Parliamentary Representation: A Cross-national Study of Candidates’ Views (2019)
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This study explores political elites’ self-conceptualisation of parliamentary representation by using data on nearly 7,000 candidates encompassing eighteen elections in fifteen countries. We examine the relevance of institutional features, closeness... Read More about Parliamentary Representation: A Cross-national Study of Candidates’ Views.

Socialist Television Drama, Newspaper Critics and the Battle of Ideas During the Crisis of Britain’s Post-War Settlement (2019)
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Due to the difficult methodological issues it presents, political historians are wary of using television - the most important mass medium of the later twentieth century - as a means of exploring vernacular political thinking. Attempting to show how... Read More about Socialist Television Drama, Newspaper Critics and the Battle of Ideas During the Crisis of Britain’s Post-War Settlement.

Decolonising the Curriculum (2019)
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Multinational cooperation: building capabilities in small air forces (2019)
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European air power is represented by a variety of air forces, each equipped with different capabilities and facing different limitations. Developing the former and making up for the latter requires resources and finances and is not always possible wi... Read More about Multinational cooperation: building capabilities in small air forces.

The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Shale gas extraction is a highly controversial process. Despite significant proven or potential reserves, public reaction to extraction have often been negative. In some cases, this has prevented exploration. In this paper, we inv... Read More about The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom.

The Anglo-American military relationship: Institutional rules, practices, and narratives (2019)
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The Anglo-American military relationship is a vital yet neglected area of study. This article argues that the British military have actively cultivated a relationship with the U.S. military that has contributed to the longevity of the broader so-call... Read More about The Anglo-American military relationship: Institutional rules, practices, and narratives.

Typhoon Yolanda and post-disaster resilience: problems and challenges (2019)
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Typhoon Yolanda hit the Visayas region of the Philippines on 8 November 2013. With wind speeds reaching 315 km/h, the storm remains one of the strongest and most destructive typhoons ever to make landfall (Santos, 2013). This article focuses on how t... Read More about Typhoon Yolanda and post-disaster resilience: problems and challenges.

The emergence of citizen diplomacy in EU-China relations:principles, pillars, pioneers, paradoxes (2019)
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This analysis considers the phenomenon of citizen diplomacy in European Union [EU]–China relations. It begins by engaging with the global discourse about “new” diplomacy and outlines how society-centric citizen diplomacy differs from state-centric pu... Read More about The emergence of citizen diplomacy in EU-China relations:principles, pillars, pioneers, paradoxes.

Further thoughts on talking to the unreasonable: a response to Wong (2019)
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EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post-Keynesian Critique: EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? (2019)
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Post-Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone Crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively the macroeconomic imbala... Read More about EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post-Keynesian Critique: EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis?.