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The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns (2017)
Journal Article
Milazzo, C., & Hammond, J. (2018). The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 28(3), 263-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2017.1394309

The personal characteristics of political elites play an important role in British elections. While the personalisation of the media’s election coverage has been the subject of much debate, we know less about the conditions under which voters receive... Read More about The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns.

Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques (2017)
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Gill, M. J., Gill, D. J., & Roulet, T. J. (2018). Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques. British Journal of Management, 29(1), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12262

Organizational scholars increasingly recognize the value of employing historical research. Yet the fields of history and organization studies struggle to reconcile. In this article, we contend that a closer connection between these two fields is poss... Read More about Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques.

Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship (2017)
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Shaw, G., & Zhang, X. (in press). Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship. China Information, https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X17734134

Owing to China’s austere censorship regulations on film media, directors of films and documentaries engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes have struggled to bring their work to domestic attention. Working outside of the state-fun... Read More about Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship.

Restructuring the state: mainstream responses to regional nationalism (2017)
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Toubeau, S. (2017). Restructuring the state: mainstream responses to regional nationalism. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 48(1), 76-101. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjx057

Under what conditions are ‘holding-together’ federations created? And what shapes the development of their territorial structures? This article answers these questions through a comparative-historical analysis of territorial restructuring in Belgium,... Read More about Restructuring the state: mainstream responses to regional nationalism.

The origins of redistributive policy preferences: political socialisation with and without a welfare state (2017)
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Neundorf, A., & Soroka, S. (2018). The origins of redistributive policy preferences: political socialisation with and without a welfare state. West European Politics, 41(2), 400-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2017.1388666

Research on the impact of the macroeconomy on individual-level preferences for redistribution has produced varying results. This paper presents a new theory on the presence of an expansive welfare state during one’s formative years as a source of het... Read More about The origins of redistributive policy preferences: political socialisation with and without a welfare state.

Prefigurative politics between ethical practice and absent promise (2017)
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Gordon, U. (in press). Prefigurative politics between ethical practice and absent promise. Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321717722363

'Prefigurative politics' has become a popular term for social movements' ethos of unity between means and ends, but its conceptual genealogy has escaped attention. This article disentangles two components: an ethical revolutionary practice, chiefly i... Read More about Prefigurative politics between ethical practice and absent promise.

Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US (2017)
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Evensen, D., Stedman, R. C., O'Hara, S., Humphrey, M., & Andersson-Hudson, J. (2017). Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US. Environmental Research Letters, 12(12), Article 124004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f7e

In decision-making on the politically-contentious issue of unconventional gas development, the UK Government and European Commission are attempting to learn from the US experience. Although economic, environmental, and health impacts and regulatory c... Read More about Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US.

Louis Althusser’s critique of the Communist Party and the question of the postrevolutionary state (2017)
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Nowak, J. (in press). Louis Althusser’s critique of the Communist Party and the question of the postrevolutionary state. Rethinking Marxism, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2017.1358499

This essay explores some aspects of the debate led by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar on the strategy of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the 1970s. They saw the Euro-communist turn of the party as a strategy that accepted the influence of soc... Read More about Louis Althusser’s critique of the Communist Party and the question of the postrevolutionary state.

The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares (2017)
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Casal Bertoa, F., Deegan-Krause, K., & Haughton, T. (2017). The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares. Electoral Studies, 50, 142-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2017.09.007

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Volatility is a widely used term in political science, but even the most widely used measure of volatility, Pedersen's index, can mask as much as it reveals. His simple and elegant calculation has become part of the political scie... Read More about The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares.

Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis (2017)
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Bieler, A., & Jordan, J. (2018). Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis. European Journal of International Relations, 24(4), 934-957. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117728383

In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding of essential public services, cuts in p... Read More about Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis.

Social diversity affects the number of parties even under first-past-the-post rule (2017)
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Milazzo, C., Moser, R. G., & Scheiner, E. (2018). Social diversity affects the number of parties even under first-past-the-post rule. Comparative Political Studies, 51(7), 938-974. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017720704

Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology (2017)
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Heywood, P. M., & Johnston, E. (in press). Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology. Crime, Law and Social Change, 68(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9709-z

This article provides an assessment and critique of the National Integrity System approach and methodology, informed by the experience of conducting an NIS review in Cambodia. It explores four key issues that potentially undermine the relevance and... Read More about Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology.

The religious dimension of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2017)
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Ng, N., & Fulda, A. (2018). The religious dimension of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Journal of Church and State, 60(3), 377-397. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csx053

Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics (2017)
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Khan, G. A. (2017). Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics. Political Studies Review, 15(4), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917712933

In this article, I critically evaluate a characteristic tendency that is found across the various traditions of poststructuralism, both narrowly and more broadly defined. This is an increasing propensity to be preoccupied with ontological questions a... Read More about Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics.

Citizen–Media Interaction in China’s Local Participatory Reform: a Contingent Participation Model (2017)
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Zhuang, M., Zhang, X., & Morgan, S. (2018). Citizen–Media Interaction in China’s Local Participatory Reform: a Contingent Participation Model. Journal of Contemporary China, 27(109), 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2017.1363025

Mass media play an important role in grassroots democracy, yet the dynamics of media-citizen interaction remains under-researched. Using the case of “Civil Monitory Organization” (CMO) program in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou city, we show how local media and t... Read More about Citizen–Media Interaction in China’s Local Participatory Reform: a Contingent Participation Model.

An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey (2017)
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Nanou, K., Zapryanova, G., & Toth, F. (2017). An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey. European Union Politics, 18(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116517721657

Only a few studies have measured the expansion of European Union competences and they have relied on information derived from consecutive treaties, producing measures that do not vary in between. But decisions on the allocation of authority to the Eu... Read More about An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey.

The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power (2017)
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Fulda, A. (in press). The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power. Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, 7,

This research paper examines how foundations—foreign and domestic, public and private, operating and grant making engage with Chinese civil society organisations in an authoritarian political context. In contrast to previous literature, which conside... Read More about The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power.

The moral person of the state: Pufendorf, sovereignty and composite polities (2017)
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Holland, B. (2017). The moral person of the state: Pufendorf, sovereignty and composite polities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108242127

Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right” (2017)
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Bieler, A. (2017). Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 9(1), 300-326

Between May 2012 and September 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’ successfully collected close to 1.9 million signatures across the European Union (EU), forcing the Commission into an official positi... Read More about Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”.

MGNREGA, power politics, and computerization in Andhra Pradesh (2017)
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Masiero, S., & Maiorano, D. (in press). MGNREGA, power politics, and computerization in Andhra Pradesh. Forum for Development Studies, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2017.1345785

The link between e-governance and accountability of state administrations for service provision has been problematized in the literature to date. However, little is known about its application to anti-poverty programmes, of which public workfare sche... Read More about MGNREGA, power politics, and computerization in Andhra Pradesh.