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The impact of the World War I on the law governing the treatment of prisoners of war, and the making of a humanitarian subject (2018)
Journal Article
Wylie, N., & Cameron, L. (2018). The impact of the World War I on the law governing the treatment of prisoners of war, and the making of a humanitarian subject. European Journal of International Law, 29(4), 1327–1350. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy085

This paper evaluates the impact of the First World War on the development of international humanitarian law (IHL) regarding the treatment of prisoner of war (POW). In contrast to traditional scholarship, which overlooks the war’s significance on the... Read More about The impact of the World War I on the law governing the treatment of prisoners of war, and the making of a humanitarian subject.

Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections (2018)
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Milazzo, C., & Townsley, J. (2020). Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections. Parliamentary Affairs, 73(1), 127-146. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsy040

© 2018 The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society; all rights reserved. Recent decades have seen an increasing trend towards the personalisation of election campaigns, even in systems where candidates ha... Read More about Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections.

Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China (2018)
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Sullivan, J., & Kehoe, S. (2019). Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China. China Quarterly, 237, 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018001285

A visit to a Chinese city of any size—looking up at downtown billboards, riding public transport, shopping at a mall—is to be in the presence of a Chinese celebrity endorsing a product, lifestyle or other symbols of “the good life”. Celebrity in Chin... Read More about Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China.

The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment (2018)
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Meyer-Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Schuster, C. (2019). The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 29(3), 445–459. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muy071

Public service motivation (PSM) and ethical behavior are central concerns in public administration. Yet, experimental evidence on the causes of ethical behavior and the causal effects of PSM remains scarce, curtailing our understanding of both. This... Read More about The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment.

A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery (2018)
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Nicholson, A., Dang, M., & Trodd, Z. (2018). A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery. Human Rights Law Review, 18(4), 689-704. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngy032

© 2018 The Author(s). This article examines key debates on the legal definition of slavery from the perspective of survivors. This group has previously not been included in the debates on slavery definitions. By drawing upon new interviews we have co... Read More about A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery.

The ‘new’ wave of populist right-wing parties in Central and Eastern Europe: explaining electoral support for the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (2018)
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Trumm, S. (2018). The ‘new’ wave of populist right-wing parties in Central and Eastern Europe: explaining electoral support for the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia. Representation, 54(4), 331-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2018.1539028

Rising support for populist right-wing parties has become a key story of recent decades. It has mainly been making headlines in Western democracies but is also becoming increasingly prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe. Despite there being strong... Read More about The ‘new’ wave of populist right-wing parties in Central and Eastern Europe: explaining electoral support for the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia.

“Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power (2018)
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Lindsay, A. (2018). “Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power. Political Theory, 47(4), 475-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591718805979

The prevailing interpretation of constituent power is taken to be the extra-institutional capacity of a group, typically ‘the people’, to establish or revise the basic constitutional conditions of a state. Among many contemporary democratic theorists... Read More about “Pretenders of a vile and unmanly disposition”: Thomas Hobbes on the fiction of constituent power.

Core political values and the long-term shaping of partisanship (2018)
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Evans, G., & Neundorf, A. (2018). Core political values and the long-term shaping of partisanship. British Journal of Political Science, 50(4), 1263-1281. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123418000339

Party identification has been thought to provide the central organizing element for political belief systems. We argue in contrast that core values concerning equality and government intervention versus individualism and free enterprise are fundament... Read More about Core political values and the long-term shaping of partisanship.

The spectre of social democracy: a symptomatic reading of the power resources approach (2018)
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Nowak, J. (2018). The spectre of social democracy: a symptomatic reading of the power resources approach. Global Labour Journal, 9(3), 353-360. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v9i3.3713

The subject of historical cognition is the battling, oppressed class itself. In Marx it steps forward as the final enslaved and avenging class, which carries out the work of emancipation in the name of generations of downtrodden to its conclusion. Th... Read More about The spectre of social democracy: a symptomatic reading of the power resources approach.

Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan (2018)
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Sullivan, J., & Lee, D. S. (2018). Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1(2), 273-300. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00102003

How does the Western media frame Taiwan? Analysing a large set of Western newspaper reports over the past two decades, this article provides the first systematic assessment of global coverage of Taiwan. Seeking to explain why Taiwan has been framed i... Read More about Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan.

Combating corruption in the twenty-first century: new approaches (2018)
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Heywood, P. M. (in press). Combating corruption in the twenty-first century: new approaches. Daedalus, 47(3), https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00504

Despite the focus placed on combating corruption over the last quarter-century, practical results have been disappointing. A small number of "success" stories cannot mask the fact that corruption continues to blight the lives of millions of citizens.... Read More about Combating corruption in the twenty-first century: new approaches.

Post disaster social capital: trust equity, bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda (2018)
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Eadie, P., & Su, Y. (2018). Post disaster social capital: trust equity, bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda. Disaster Prevention and Management, 27(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-02-2018-0060

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of disaster rehabilitation interventions on bonding social capital in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. Design/methodology/approach: The data from the project is drawn from eight barangays... Read More about Post disaster social capital: trust equity, bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda.

Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea (2018)
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Lee, D. S. (2018). Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 18(3), 345-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2018.16

How do the president's calculations in achieving policy goals shape the allocation of cabinet portfolios? Despite the growing literature on presidential cabinet appointments, this question has barely been addressed. I argue that cabinet appointments... Read More about Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea.

Contextualizing Chinese migrations to Africa (2018)
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Sullivan, J., & Cheng, J. (2018). Contextualizing Chinese migrations to Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53(8), 1173-1187. doi:10.1177/0021909618776443

Who are ‘the Chinese’ in Africa? Why are they there? As China’s engagement with African countries intensifies, and the size of the Chinese population in Africa increases, these questions have elicited substantial attention. Many attempts to provide a... Read More about Contextualizing Chinese migrations to Africa.

Current challenges to multinational federalism in India (2018)
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Adeney, K., & Bhattacharyya, H. (2018). Current challenges to multinational federalism in India. Regional and Federal Studies, 28(4), 409-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2018.1473855

India’s multinational federation has experienced multiple challenges in the last 25 years, relating to the rise of coalition politics and the process of economic liberalisation, both of which have increased the power of some of the states of the fede... Read More about Current challenges to multinational federalism in India.

Democratization and women’s representation in presidential cabinets: evidence from East and Southeast Asia (2018)
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Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (in press). Democratization and women’s representation in presidential cabinets: evidence from East and Southeast Asia. Asian Journal of Political Science, 26(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2018.1476257

This article examines patterns of women’s cabinet representation across all presidential democracies in East and Southeast Asia since democratization. It demonstrates how the choice of female ministers differs across career backgrounds in presidentia... Read More about Democratization and women’s representation in presidential cabinets: evidence from East and Southeast Asia.

Party support in multi-level elections: the influence of economic perceptions and vertical congruence (2018)
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Toubeau, S., & Wagner, M. (2018). Party support in multi-level elections: the influence of economic perceptions and vertical congruence. Electoral Studies, 54, 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2018.04.019

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd How does the economy influence party support in multi-level states? Using regional-level survey data from Canada, Germany and Spain, we show that there is a ‘cross-level’ effect of economic evaluations. Citizens thus take into con... Read More about Party support in multi-level elections: the influence of economic perceptions and vertical congruence.

Decentralisation, clientelism and social protection programmes: a study of India’s MGNREGA (2018)
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Maiorano, D., Das, U., & Masiero, S. (2018). Decentralisation, clientelism and social protection programmes: a study of India’s MGNREGA. Oxford Development Studies, 46(4), 536-549. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2018.1467391

Does decentralisation promote clientelism? If yes, through which mechanisms? We answer these questions through an analysis of India’s (and the world’s) largest workfare programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA),... Read More about Decentralisation, clientelism and social protection programmes: a study of India’s MGNREGA.