De kern van de politiek
(2020)
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The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.
Locating gendered representation in European Union Member States (2020)
Book Chapter
While the EU does not set specific legal requirements for its member states’ electoral systems, it is perhaps one of the world’s best learning laboratories for comparing the effects of electoral design. The EU is also, in many ways, a leader in the p... Read More about Locating gendered representation in European Union Member States.
How can we model ethnic democracy? An application to contemporary India (2020)
Journal Article
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 Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis (2020)
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This report provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of extending support to adult conclusive victims of human trafficking in England and Wales for 12 months after exiting the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the UK’s identification and suppo... Read More about The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis.
The Importance of Leverage in GlaxoSmithKline’s China Engagement: A Revelatory Case Study (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.
Regulatory Reform in the Era of New Technological Development: The Role of Organizational Factors in the Public Sector (2020)
Journal Article
What is the role of organizational factors in fostering regulatory reform in response to new technological development? Existing studies provide useful frameworks to understand regulatory reform in rapidly changing circumstances but still lack a syst... Read More about Regulatory Reform in the Era of New Technological Development: The Role of Organizational Factors in the Public Sector.
Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies (2020)
Journal Article
How do career attributes affect the survival of post-communist ministers? We theorise that career attributes determine “desirability” of ministers, and therefore the length of their tenure. While political career attributes provide superior expertise... Read More about Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies.
John Stuart Mill: market socialist? (2020)
Journal Article
Compared to other elements of his political and economic thought, John Stuart Mill’s claim to be ‘under the general designation of Socialist’ has largely been ignored. Where it has been acknowledged, it has generally been denied. One exception to thi... Read More about John Stuart Mill: market socialist?.
The impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan's federal system: the politics of the CPEC (2020)
Journal Article
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is often portrayed as the flagship project of the new economic and political architecture envisaged by China as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). With official figures suggesting a $62 billion CPEC-relate... Read More about The impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan's federal system: the politics of the CPEC.
Robert Michels, the iron law of oligarchy and dynamic democracy (2020)
Journal Article
The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs (2020)
Journal Article
The outcome of the 2016 referendum on European Union membership took many by surprise and has continued to define the political discourse in Britain. Despite there being a growing body of research focused on explaining how voters cast their ballot, w... Read More about The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs.
Adjusting to austerity: the public spending responses of regional governments to the budget constraint in Spain and Italy (2020)
Journal Article
What are the effects of fiscal imbalances, and austerity, on regional-level spending? To answer this question, we examine an original dataset of yearly spending decisions of regional governments in Italy and Spain between 2003 and 2015. We find that... Read More about Adjusting to austerity: the public spending responses of regional governments to the budget constraint in Spain and Italy.
“Political … civil and domestic slavery”: Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Doyle Wheeler on marriage, servitude, and socialism (2020)
Journal Article
Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Wheeler are two 19th century British feminists generally over-shadowed by the fame of the men with whom they co-authored (respectively John Stuart Mill and William Thompson). Yet both made important, and interesting, cont... Read More about “Political … civil and domestic slavery”: Harriet Taylor Mill and Anna Doyle Wheeler on marriage, servitude, and socialism.
The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita (2020)
Journal Article
How can survival strategies of resource-dependent Chinese CSO be re-conceptualized in order to narrow the gap between civil society research and emerging CSO practices? Specifically, to what extent have CSOs managed to leverage scarce resources to se... Read More about The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita.
Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections (2020)
Journal Article
This article draws upon the literature on comparative political institutions in order to re-examine the logic of Twitter usage during campaign periods, now that social media has become a standard tool that is used across the political spectrum. We te... Read More about Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections.