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Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe (2020)
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How can governments manage civil servants to enhance public service motivation (PSM)? Despite the centrality of PSM in public administration research, the effects of management practices on PSM remain understudied. We address this gap through a conjo... Read More about Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Sieyès and republican liberty (2020)
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In On the People’s Terms, Philip Pettit incorporates the Sieyèsian notion of constituent power into his constitutional theory of non-domination. In this article, I argue that Emmanuel Sieyès’s understanding of liberty precludes such an appropriation.... Read More about Sieyès and republican liberty.

Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study (2020)
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What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative sample of 11,523 respondents in nine countries. First, it shows that t... Read More about Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study.

Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications (2020)
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Parties’ electoral communications play a central role in British campaigns. Yet, we know little about the nature of the material contained in these communications and how parties’ campaign messages differ across constituencies or elections. In this a... Read More about Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications.

Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol (2020)
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© 2020 Author(s). Published by BMJ. Introduction Slavery and human trafficking are crimes involving the violation of human rights and refer to exploitative situations where an individual cannot refuse or leave due to threats, coercion or abuse of pow... Read More about Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol.

Working with the Financial Sector to Correct the Market Failure of Modern Slavery (2020)
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Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal (2020)
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Recently, policy actors have posited the promotion of public integrity as a new response to corruption in government and the decline in trust in public institutions. However, often, this use of the term «public integrity» amounts to little more than... Read More about Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal.

Big Data on BHR: Innovative Approaches to Analysing the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Database (2020)
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Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil (2020)
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In the current structure of careers in the Brazilian Federal Government, public officials who do not hold a DAS position have two predominant ways of reaching a higher salary level: years of service and passing a written examination for a higher paid... Read More about Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil.

China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria: From Sovereignty Protection to Pragmatism (2020)
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Will the rise of China, an authoritarian, party-state with a poor record of protecting its citizens' human rights, undermine humanitarian intervention? This question has been particularly pertinent since China's 'assertive turn' in foreign policy. Dr... Read More about China, Responsibility to Protect, and the Case of Syria: From Sovereignty Protection to Pragmatism.

Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe (2020)
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© 2020, The Author(s). Land-based fish-processing activities in coastal fringe areas and their social-ecological impacts have often been overlooked by marine scientists and antislavery groups. Using remote sensing methods, the location and impacts of... Read More about Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe.

Forced Marriage Real Simple (2020)
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The concepts of 'real rape' and 'real rape victim' play a key role in the reporting and prosecution of rape cases and strongly influence their outcomes. Similar biases and misconceptions obscure other acts of gender-based violence such as forced marr... Read More about Forced Marriage Real Simple.

What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians? (2020)
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The aim of this article is to explore the motivations of street-level bureaucrats when implementing change initiated by elected politicians. We analyse experimental data on more than 1,800 local civil servants from all 243 local governments in South... Read More about What Motivates Street-level Bureaucrats to Implement the Reforms of Elected Politicians?.

(Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries (2020)
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Do management practices have similar anti-corruption eects in OECD and developing countries? Despite prominent cautions against 'New Zealand' reforms which enhance managerial discretion in developing countries, scholars have not assessed this questio... Read More about (Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries.

The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights (2020)
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This article challenges the traditional approach to studying the creation of foreign policy within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Whilst most historical and contemporary research has focused upon the role of the Foreign Secretary, Permanent Un... Read More about The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights.

Winner–loser effects in contentious constitutional referenda: Perceptions of procedural fairness and the Brexit referendum (2020)
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This paper addresses a critical gap in the literature on winner-loser effects that consists of the lack of attention for highly contentious constitutional referenda. It uses unique multi-wave panel data of over 13,000 people that is unrivalled in siz... Read More about Winner–loser effects in contentious constitutional referenda: Perceptions of procedural fairness and the Brexit referendum.

John Stuart Mill on "legitimate socialism" and the 1848 revolution in Paris (2020)
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According to his Autobiography, the 1848 revolution in Paris prompted Mill to present his politics “under the general designation of Socialist” in the 1852 edition of Principles of Political Economy. Yet some read, in his later Chapters on Socialism,... Read More about John Stuart Mill on "legitimate socialism" and the 1848 revolution in Paris.

How can we model ethnic democracy? An application to contemporary India (2020)
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The status of India as the world's largest democracy is often lauded, but the re‐election of the overtly Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 has increased concerns about the threat to India's multinational democracy and the rule of law.... Read More about How can we model ethnic democracy? An application to contemporary India.

The Importance of Leverage in GlaxoSmithKline’s China Engagement: A Revelatory Case Study (2020)
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This article critically examines multinational corporation (MNC)–host government relations in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) through the prism of the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) corruption scandal. The article takes the episode as a revelatory case s... Read More about The Importance of Leverage in GlaxoSmithKline’s China Engagement: A Revelatory Case Study.

The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy (2020)
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The existing literature suggests that China launched the belt and road initiative (BRI) in order to stimulate economic growth through infrastructural investment abroad, foster closer economic ties with Eurasia, and counter the US pivot to Asia. In th... Read More about The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy.