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'There never was a time when so great a drama was being played out in one generation': John Stuart Mill and the French Revolution of 1848 (2019)
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The events of 1848 in France had a profound effect on John Stuart Mill, marking both an important change, and emphasising an important continuity, in his radical political thought. Mill had always had a strong interest in French politics, and a long-... Read More about 'There never was a time when so great a drama was being played out in one generation': John Stuart Mill and the French Revolution of 1848.

Soft Power Determinants in the World and Implications for China: A Quantitative Test of Joseph Nye's Theory on Three Soft Power Resources and of the Positive Peace Agreement (2019)
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Statistical tests are conducted on two explanations of soft power. One is Joseph Nye's argument that political values, foreign policy, and cultural appeals shape soft power, and the other is the positive peace argument which suggests the significant... Read More about Soft Power Determinants in the World and Implications for China: A Quantitative Test of Joseph Nye's Theory on Three Soft Power Resources and of the Positive Peace Agreement.

Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse (2019)
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What role do bureaucrats play in the development of the resource curse in countries that have recently discovered oil? Much of the resource curse literature argues that political leaders spend natural resource revenue in ways that entrench their poli... Read More about Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse.

Interpreting toxic masculinity in political parties: A framework for analysis (2019)
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The term ‘toxic masculinity’ was coined in the 1990s by sociologists and psychologists. It has since been appropriated by scholars and commentators interested in gendered behaviours and outcomes in politics. However, despite the attention belatedly b... Read More about Interpreting toxic masculinity in political parties: A framework for analysis.

Understanding Pipeline Politics in Eurasia: Turkey’s Transit Security in Natural Gas (2019)
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As the importance of natural gas for the energy future of the European Union rises, many new pipeline projects are proposed to transfer rich resources of Eurasia towards Europe. Why do some of these projects succeed, and others fail? To explain this... Read More about Understanding Pipeline Politics in Eurasia: Turkey’s Transit Security in Natural Gas.

Globalization and Modern Slavery (2019)
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This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different dimensions of globalization and modern slavery. It argues that both the economic and political dimensions of globalization are strongly associated with... Read More about Globalization and Modern Slavery.

Alasdair MacIntyre, utopianism and the politics of social institutions (2019)
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In what follows I shall consider what Alasdair MacIntyre has to say about utopianism, from the standpoint of someone who has an interest in the kind of politics that takes place within social institutions. The discussion has two parts. In the first p... Read More about Alasdair MacIntyre, utopianism and the politics of social institutions.

Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom (2019)
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The 2019 European Parliament (EP) election took place against the backdrop of the vote for Brexit and the failure of parliament to agree on a withdrawal agreement. Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party topped the poll and the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats,... Read More about Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom.

Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress (2019)
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In The Political Economy of Progress, Joseph Persky argues for seeing J.S. Mill as a consistent ‘radical’ with much to offer modern ‘radical’ political discourse. In this article, I further this claim with consideration of Mill's political philosophy... Read More about Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress.

China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces (2019)
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This article examines the mobilization of football in relation to Chinese state-building projects. Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “symbolic power” is applied to frame policy analysis of China’s 2016-2050 National Football Plan and narrative analysis of... Read More about China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces.

Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s (2019)
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In early 2019, the British government declassified a tranche of Information Research Department files. Among them is a candid and concise overview of British thinking about covert propaganda, complete with a list of examples of British forgery operat... Read More about Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s.

Lenin on library organisation in socialist society (2019)
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and leader of the first Socialist State in the world, devoted great attention from the very first days of the soviet power to the education of the people, to organising the wor... Read More about Lenin on library organisation in socialist society.

How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People? (2019)
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We propose a distinction between inclusionary and exclusionary autocratic ruling strategies and develop novel theoretical propositions on the legacy that these strategies leave on citizens' political attitudes once the autocratic regime broke down. U... Read More about How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?.

Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies? (2019)
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Proponents of the "China Model" suggest that autocracies, particularly in East Asia, reward competence more than democracies. However, a competing literature argues that autocracies are less likely to reward competence because autocrats fear that com... Read More about Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies?.

Timothy Larsen John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp.vi + 229. £30:00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198753155 (2019)
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Book review.

The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament (2019)
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2019. This article explores the consequences of quotas on the level of diversity observed in legislators' professional and political experience. We exam... Read More about The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament.

Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context (2019)
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This study examines effects of negative campaigning by political parties on citizens’ electoral preferences in the 2015 General Election in England. We do so by using a large Internet panel study and an operationalisation of (perceived) negative camp... Read More about Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context.

Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation (2019)
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Organizational scholars increasingly view institutionalization as a process through which actors adapt or translate seemingly successful practices in a field to create variations that are specific to their own organization. Yet little is known about... Read More about Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation.

Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments (2019)
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Group work is an essential aspect of our personal, educational and professional development, yet it is not a common method of assessment in Politics and International Relations departments at British Universities. This study explores how instructors... Read More about Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments.

Russian responses to the changing character of war (2019)
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For much of the post-Soviet era there was a widespread belief that improving capabilities required for dealing with local small wars and insurgencies was the central focus of Russian military reforms. As a result, Moscow's military assertiveness and... Read More about Russian responses to the changing character of war.