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The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing? (2023)
Journal Article

Why and how has China covered the Black Lives Matter (BLM), a movement with emerging themes closely related to its domestic issues? To what extent does the Chinese media build a unified discourse on sensitive themes that underpin the BLM? These are i... Read More about The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing?.

The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986-2018) (2023)
Journal Article

This article studies the determinants of tax innovation in Spain's Common Regime Autonomous Communities (ACs) over the period 1986-2018, across the different types of taxes included in their 'own taxes'. Our central finding is that the introduction o... Read More about The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986-2018).

Recasting “Fundamental ‘British’ Values”: Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism (2023)
Journal Article

Societies concerned with preventing acts of violent extremism often target the ideas that are thought to motivate such acts. The state's use of educational institutions is one mechanism by which those ideas are subjected to challenge. Teaching libera... Read More about Recasting “Fundamental ‘British’ Values”: Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism.

COVID-19 and aid distribution in the Philippines: a patron-clientelist explanation (2023)
Journal Article

Republic Act (RA) 11469, also known as ‘The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act’, and RA 11494 the ‘Bayanihan to Recover as One Act’, or Bayanihan 2, were passed into law in the Philippines as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. RA 11469 and RA 11494 were... Read More about COVID-19 and aid distribution in the Philippines: a patron-clientelist explanation.

Of Substance, Signs and the State: A New Reading of St Augustine's Definition of the Republic (2023)
Journal Article

This article provides a new interpretation of St. Augustine’s concept of res publica, situating his political philosophy in terms of the distinction between res and signum, substance and sign, which runs across his work. The res of res publica is its... Read More about Of Substance, Signs and the State: A New Reading of St Augustine's Definition of the Republic.

Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (2023)
Book

In post-war Sierra Leone, a range of transitional justice mechanisms were implemented to address experiences of conflict, violence, and human rights violations. Much of the research on local transitional justice processes has focused on the work of o... Read More about Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone.

Measuring Subnational Variation in Freedom of Religion or Belief Violations: Reflections on a Path Forward (2023)
Journal Article

In recent years, numerous cross-country data collection instruments measuring freedom of religious or belief (FoRB) violations have become available. These have provided important insights, not least of which being the steady increase in religious di... Read More about Measuring Subnational Variation in Freedom of Religion or Belief Violations: Reflections on a Path Forward.

China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications (2023)
Journal Article

In 2020, hundreds of sub-national government officials and Chinese Communist Party cadres undertook a months-long experiment in livestreaming and social commerce. These sectors are among the most dynamic in the Chinese internet economy and culture, y... Read More about China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications.

The 2022 Conservative leadership campaign and post-racial gatekeeping (2023)
Journal Article

The UK Conservative Party leadership contest that took place in the summer of 2022 was unprecedented for, among other things, its level of ethnic diversity. This article argues that this does not indicate a sharp, contemporary liberal turn within the... Read More about The 2022 Conservative leadership campaign and post-racial gatekeeping.

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain (2023)
Journal Article

Rising support for populist parties and candidates has become a key story of recent decades, making headlines in Western democracies and beyond. While a growing body of populism research focuses on how parties use populist messaging and which voters... Read More about Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain.

Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance (2023)
Book

Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels (2023)
Working Paper

Forcing someone into marriage against their will is a violation of their human rights. In 2021, the county of Nottinghamshire, UK, launched a strategy to tackle forced marriage and violence against women and girls. However, accessing information abou... Read More about Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels.

Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer: Sexism, Racism, and Female Enlistment in World War II (2023)
Journal Article

What influenced women to volunteer for service in the US military during World War II? Whereas previous literature focused on potential intrinsic and extrinsic individual-level motives, we consider the broader structural context that may have played... Read More about Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer: Sexism, Racism, and Female Enlistment in World War II.

The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries (2023)
Journal Article

Understanding how public administrations around the world function and differ is crucial for strengthening their effectiveness. Most comparative measures of bureaucracy rely on surveys of experts, households, or firms, rather than directly questionin... Read More about The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries.

Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections (2023)
Journal Article

What drives British parliamentary candidates to attack their opponents? Using an original dataset of approximately 7500 general election leaflets from four elections between 2010 and 2019, we offer the first study into the conditions under which Brit... Read More about Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections.

Harriet Taylor Mill (2023)
Book

Harriet Taylor Mill is an overlooked figure in the history of political philosophy, ethics, economics and politics, over-shadowed by the fame of her writing partner, and eventual husband, John Stuart Mill. Given that they met at a very early age (whe... Read More about Harriet Taylor Mill.

Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle (2023)
Journal Article

The purpose of this article is to reflect on how we can conceptualise the multiple types of struggles over water. Through a historical materialist engagement with social reproduction theorists, post-colonial interventions and eco-socialism, we argue... Read More about Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle.

The Long Shadow of Default: Britain's Unpaid War Debts to the United States, 1917-2020 (2023)
Book

“The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom (2022)
Journal Article

This article examines the views of UK riders’ rights activists about perceived threats to the freedom to enjoy motorcycling, and how to mobilize the motorcycling community against these threats. Through semi-structured interviews with activists, we a... Read More about “The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom.