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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

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.

Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (2018)
Book

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was inven... Read More about Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.

Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections (2018)
Journal Article

© 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.

The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East (2018)
Book

A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery (2018)
Journal Article

© 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.

Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding (2018)
Journal Article

Towards a more professional civil service in Kosovo: evidence from a survey of civil servants in central and local government (2018)
Working Paper

Civil service management in Nepal: evidence from a survey of more than 1,200 civil servants (2018)
Working Paper

Theory-testing Uyghur terrorism in China (2018)
Journal Article

Analysis of terrorism perpetrated by Uyghurs inside China and the presence of Uyghur fighters in the warzones from Afghanistan to Syria has been divided as to whether such violence constitutes the alignment of Uyghur groups like the Turkestan Islamis... Read More about Theory-testing Uyghur terrorism in China.

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

The Essence of Politics (2018)
Book

This book discusses the nature of politics and 'the political'. It does so by contrasting and comparing contested definitions and descriptions, leading to a focus on processes of characterised by both conflict and cooperation. These processes can be... Read More about The Essence of Politics.

Core political values and the long-term shaping of partisanship (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Civil service management in Estonia: evidence from a survey of civil servants and employees (2018)
Working Paper

The spectre of social democracy: a symptomatic reading of the power resources approach (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Fighting With Fire: Negative Campaigning in the 2015 UK General Election Campaign as Reported by the Print Media (2018)
Book Chapter

Negative campaigning, i.e., attacking the political opponent to decrease the opponent’s electoral attractiveness, is a frequently used electoral strategy, including by political parties in the UK. Research on negative campaigning does not often study... Read More about Fighting With Fire: Negative Campaigning in the 2015 UK General Election Campaign as Reported by the Print Media.

John Stuart Mill on free speech (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to draw the reader’s attention to Mill’s wider body of work concerning freedom of expression. Mill’s other writings augment the more famous text of On Liberty, in ways that give a better impression of how his position on free speech... Read More about John Stuart Mill on free speech.

Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan (2018)
Journal Article

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.