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Civil service laws, merit, politicization, and corruption: the perspective of public officials from five East European countries (2016)
Journal Article

Research on bureaucracy and corruption tends to concentrate on cross-national research taking countries as the unit of analysis. Yet national-level measures neglect large differences within countries. This paper therefore takes the perspective of ind... Read More about Civil service laws, merit, politicization, and corruption: the perspective of public officials from five East European countries.

Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework (2016)
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Terrorists learn every day to gain further knowledge on how to achieve their violent objectives. Consequently, understanding terrorist learning forms a crucial part of the fight to counter terrorism. However, whilst existing literature within terrori... Read More about Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework.

Political parties or party systems? Assessing the ‘myth’ of institutionalisation and democracy (2016)
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No matter the region of the world under study, party (system) institutionalisation has been traditionally considered to be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the survival of democracy. Despite being one of the most quoted statements in th... Read More about Political parties or party systems? Assessing the ‘myth’ of institutionalisation and democracy.

Chinese labour in the global economy: an introduction (2016)
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This Introduction outlines the main purpose of this special issue volume: to analyse new forms of resistance by Chinese workers against conditions of super-exploitation. After an assessment of the new international division of labour, we provide an o... Read More about Chinese labour in the global economy: an introduction.

What future for Chinese labour and transnational solidarity? (2016)
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In this conclusion we argue that class struggle is central to the future of Chinese workers and the improvement of their situation. Technological upgrading in itself will not automatically result in better working conditions. Moreover, we point out t... Read More about What future for Chinese labour and transnational solidarity?.

Why Russia is reviving its conventional military power (2016)
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The revival of Russian military power poses certain challenges to NATO and to the West. However, the exact nature of these challenges is not straightforward. This article discusses why Russia is reviving its conventional military p... Read More about Why Russia is reviving its conventional military power.

Choosing party leaders: Anglophone democracies, British parties and the limits of comparative politics (2016)
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Since 1965, Britain’s major political parties have radically, and repeatedly, changed the ways in which they choose their leaders. Building on a recent comparative study of party leadership selection in the five principal Anglophone (‘Westminster’) p... Read More about Choosing party leaders: Anglophone democracies, British parties and the limits of comparative politics.

Disruption and deniable interventionism: explaining the appeal of covert action and special forces in contemporary British policy (2016)
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The United Kingdom has long engaged in covert action. It continues to do so today. Owing to the secrecy involved, however, such activity has consistently been excluded from debates about Britain’s global role, foreign and security policy, and militar... Read More about Disruption and deniable interventionism: explaining the appeal of covert action and special forces in contemporary British policy.

Exploitation and resistance: a comparative analysis of the Chinese cheap labour electronics and high-value added IT sectors. (2016)
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This article compares the electronics sector in the area of Shenzhen, based on cheap labour assembling goods for export, with the IT sector in the area of Shanghai, relying on a more skilled workforce manufacturing high-value added goods. It is asked... Read More about Exploitation and resistance: a comparative analysis of the Chinese cheap labour electronics and high-value added IT sectors..

Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom (2016)
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Our work examines the relationship between knowledge/familiarity with shale gas development in a comparative context. The United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) represent very different cases of shale gas development, with development relatively... Read More about Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom.

First-order contests for second-order parties? Differentiated candidate nomination strategies in European Parliament elections (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines an alternative logic for candidate renomination to the European Parliament (EP), based upon the size and ideological nature of a Member of the European Parliament’s (MEP’s) home party, as well as timing of EP elections. I derive... Read More about First-order contests for second-order parties? Differentiated candidate nomination strategies in European Parliament elections.

Counter-terrorism, smart power and the United States (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines smart power, specifically in relation to US counter-terrorism initiatives, focusing on US foreign aid as a soft power instrument. Economic aid and military aid are disbursed under the auspices of USAID and the military is tasked... Read More about Counter-terrorism, smart power and the United States.

‘The longest suicide vote in history’: the Labour Party leadership election of 2015 (2016)
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The Labour leadership contest of 2015 resulted in the election of the veteran Left-wing backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn, who clearly defeated the early favourite, Andy Burnham. Yet Corbyn enjoyed very little support among Labour MPs, and his victory plung... Read More about ‘The longest suicide vote in history’: the Labour Party leadership election of 2015.

Nietzsche's Great Politics (2016)
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Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves awa... Read More about Nietzsche's Great Politics.

Russia and ‘hybrid warfare’ (2016)
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In the aftermath of the Crimea annexation in March 2014, the idea of ‘hybrid warfare’ quickly gained prominence as a concept that could help to explain the success of Russian military op... Read More about Russia and ‘hybrid warfare’.

China’s governance model: flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism (2016)
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Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to appreciat... Read More about China’s governance model: flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism.

Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American Special Relationships in the Obama Era: An Alliance Persistence Perspective (2016)
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Anglo-American and Israeli-American special relationships have proved to be unusually close and have confounded expectations that they would wither away with the changing internation... Read More about Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American Special Relationships in the Obama Era: An Alliance Persistence Perspective.

Unethical power Europe? Something fishy about EU trade and development policies (2016)
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This article analyses the impact of European Union (EU) policies in the field of fisheries on development in Africa. It contests the premise that the EU promotes local economies, and argues that it often contributes to depleting fish stocks, distorti... Read More about Unethical power Europe? Something fishy about EU trade and development policies.

What does it take to make it to the polling station? The effects of campaign activities on electoral participation (2016)
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This study explores the extent to which campaign visibility facilitates electoral participation, using data from first- and second-order elections in Britain. Our contribution to the existing literature is threefold. First, we assess whether the effe... Read More about What does it take to make it to the polling station? The effects of campaign activities on electoral participation.

Forced Marriage, Slavery, and Plural Legal Systems: An African Example (2016)
Journal Article

Slavery, long abolished under international law, left a devastating imprint on Africa. However, enslavement of women through forced marriages remains a common phenomenon in many African states. These African states share the common feature of legal p... Read More about Forced Marriage, Slavery, and Plural Legal Systems: An African Example.