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Anti-human trafficking interventions: how do we know if they are working? (2016)
Journal Article

Since the early 2000s, a significant number of programs and policies have been developed and implemented to prevent and combat human trafficking. At the international, regional and national levels, government, and international, and nongovernment org... Read More about Anti-human trafficking interventions: how do we know if they are working?.

A modern-day requirement for co-ordinated covert action (2016)
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Covert action can be an important weapon in a state’s arsenal. It is, however, inherently controversial and risky. Rory Cormac, Michael S Goodman and Tom Holman argue that when considering covert action, Whitehall should look to lessons from the rece... Read More about A modern-day requirement for co-ordinated covert action.

The black door: spies, secret intelligence, and British Prime Ministers (2016)
Book

Coming together or drifting apart? Income maintenance in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article

There has been long-standing debate in the comparative welfare state literature as to whether social policy regimes come to look more alike over time (“converge”) or else retain their distinctiveness. In this article, we explore this question throug... Read More about Coming together or drifting apart? Income maintenance in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

The Compensation Effect of Civic Education on Political Engagement: How Civics Classes Make Up for Missing Parental Socialization (2016)
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The development of political engagement in early life is significant given its impact on political knowledge and participation. Analyses reveal a large influence of parents on their offspring’s curiosity about politics during their teenage years. Inc... Read More about The Compensation Effect of Civic Education on Political Engagement: How Civics Classes Make Up for Missing Parental Socialization.

The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments (2016)
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While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issue positions, political competition revolves equally around issue salience, i.e., debates over which issue areas political p... Read More about The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments.

Learning to pull the strings after Suez: Macmillan’s management of the Eisenhower administration during the intervention in Jordan, 1958 (2016)
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This analysis re-instates the importance of the 1958 British intervention in Jordan within the study of Anglo-American relations and the revisionist literature on Suez. It does so by challenging the idea of British subservience to American foreign po... Read More about Learning to pull the strings after Suez: Macmillan’s management of the Eisenhower administration during the intervention in Jordan, 1958.

China's expanding influence in Africa: projection, perception and prospects in Southern African countries (2016)
Journal Article

China's multi-faceted endeavour to expand its influence in Africa has attracted worldwide scholarly and media attention. This article examines the different moments of China's soft power endeavour, from projection through its state media to represent... Read More about China's expanding influence in Africa: projection, perception and prospects in Southern African countries.

An online electoral connection? How electoral systems condition representatives’ social media use (2016)
Journal Article

Party patronage in contemporary democracies: results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions (2016)
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This Research Note presents a new dataset of party patronage in 22 countries from five regions. The data was collected based on the same methodology to compare patterns of patronage within countries, across countries and across world regions that are... Read More about Party patronage in contemporary democracies: results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions.

Party competition over decentralisation: the influence of ideology and electoral incentives on issue emphasis (2016)
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Under what conditions is decentralisation a salient issue for state-wide political parties? It is argued in this article that the extent to which state-wide parties emphasise decentralisation depends on their strategic considerations: on their overal... Read More about Party competition over decentralisation: the influence of ideology and electoral incentives on issue emphasis.

Silent professionalization: EU integration and the professional socialization of public officials in Central and Eastern Europe (2016)
Journal Article

This paper applies theories of international socialization to examine the impact of European Union contact on the professional socialization of public officials in Central and Eastern Europe. Based on a survey of officials in seven new member states,... Read More about Silent professionalization: EU integration and the professional socialization of public officials in Central and Eastern Europe.

Blood and earth: modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world (2016)
Book

Improving the implementation of merit recruitment procedures in the Western Balkans:analysis and recommendations (2015)
Book

The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning (2015)
Journal Article

Faced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communic... Read More about The professionals speak: practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning.

Understanding the Support Needs of Human-Trafficking Victims: A Review of Three Human-Trafficking Program Evaluations (2015)
Journal Article

Human trafficking is a global crime and human rights violation that affects nearly every country of the world. Victims of human trafficking may suffer severe physical, psychological, and emotional health consequences as they are often subjected to a... Read More about Understanding the Support Needs of Human-Trafficking Victims: A Review of Three Human-Trafficking Program Evaluations.

Dream capitalism (2015)
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John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness represents an heroic attempt to bridge the gap between Rawlsian ‘high liberals’ and the advocates of classical liberalism/contemporary libertarianism. I argue that Tomasi’s project fails, above all because it canno... Read More about Dream capitalism.

UKIP: inside the campaign to redraw the map of British politics (2015)
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The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific (2015)
Journal Article

This article explains the origins of the Australia–New Zealand–United States (ANZUS) Treaty by highlighting U.S. ambitions in the Pacific region after World War II. Three clarifications to the historiography merit attention. First, an alliance with A... Read More about The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific.

Is the free market acceptable to everyone? (2015)
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In this paper we take issue with two central claims that John Tomasi makes in Free Market Fairness (2012). The first claim is that Rawls’s difference principle can better be realized by free market institutions than it can be by state interventionist... Read More about Is the free market acceptable to everyone?.