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Globalization and Modern Slavery (2019)
Journal Article
Landman, T., & Silverman, B. W. (2019). Globalization and Modern Slavery. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 275-290. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v7i4.2233

This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different dimensions of globalization and modern slavery. It argues that both the economic and political dimensions of globalization are strongly associated with... Read More about Globalization and Modern Slavery.

Alasdair MacIntyre, utopianism and the politics of social institutions (2019)
Journal Article
Burns, T. (2019). Alasdair MacIntyre, utopianism and the politics of social institutions. International Critical Thought, 9(3), 447-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/21598282.2019.1647550

In what follows I shall consider what Alasdair MacIntyre has to say about utopianism, from the standpoint of someone who has an interest in the kind of politics that takes place within social institutions. The discussion has two parts. In the first p... Read More about Alasdair MacIntyre, utopianism and the politics of social institutions.

The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Sharp Power and its Discontents (2019)
Book
Fulda, A. (2019). The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Sharp Power and its Discontents. Routledge

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. Taking a long historical perspective,... Read More about The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Sharp Power and its Discontents.

Harriet Taylor (2019)
Book Chapter
McCabe, H. (2019). Harriet Taylor. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's WritingSpringer

Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Cutts, D., Goodwin, M., Heath, O., Holloway, R., & Milazzo, C. (2019). Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom. Political Quarterly, 90(3), 496-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12736

The 2019 European Parliament (EP) election took place against the backdrop of the vote for Brexit and the failure of parliament to agree on a withdrawal agreement. Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party topped the poll and the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats,... Read More about Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom.

Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress (2019)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2020). Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress. Utilitas, 32(2), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820819000244

In The Political Economy of Progress, Joseph Persky argues for seeing J.S. Mill as a consistent ‘radical’ with much to offer modern ‘radical’ political discourse. In this article, I further this claim with consideration of Mill's political philosophy... Read More about Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress.

China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces (2019)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., Chadwick, S., & Gow, M. (2019). China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 43(6), 493-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723519867588

This article examines the mobilization of football in relation to Chinese state-building projects. Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “symbolic power” is applied to frame policy analysis of China’s 2016-2050 National Football Plan and narrative analysis of... Read More about China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces.

Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s (2019)
Journal Article
Cormac, R. (2019). Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s. Intelligence and National Security, 34(7), 1064-1069. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2019.1645434

In early 2019, the British government declassified a tranche of Information Research Department files. Among them is a candid and concise overview of British thinking about covert propaganda, complete with a list of examples of British forgery operat... Read More about Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s.

Lenin on library organisation in socialist society (2019)
Journal Article
Pateman, J. (2019). Lenin on library organisation in socialist society. Library and Information History, 35(2), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583489.2019.1632575

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and leader of the first Socialist State in the world, devoted great attention from the very first days of the soviet power to the education of the people, to organising the wor... Read More about Lenin on library organisation in socialist society.

How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People? (2019)
Journal Article
Neundorf, A., Gerschewski, J., & Olar, R.-G. (2020). How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?. Comparative Political Studies, 53(12), 1890-1925. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019858958

We propose a distinction between inclusionary and exclusionary autocratic ruling strategies and develop novel theoretical propositions on the legacy that these strategies leave on citizens' political attitudes once the autocratic regime broke down. U... Read More about How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?.

Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies? (2019)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., & Schuler, P. J. (2020). Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies?. Comparative Political Studies, 53(3-4), 531-566. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019858962

Proponents of the "China Model" suggest that autocracies, particularly in East Asia, reward competence more than democracies. However, a competing literature argues that autocracies are less likely to reward competence because autocrats fear that com... Read More about Testing the “China Model” of Meritocratic Promotions: Do Democracies Reward Less Competent Ministers Than Autocracies?.

Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context (2019)
Journal Article
Walter, A. S., & van der Eijk, C. (2019). Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21(3), 612-629. https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148119842038

This study examines effects of negative campaigning by political parties on citizens’ electoral preferences in the 2015 General Election in England. We do so by using a large Internet panel study and an operationalisation of (perceived) negative camp... Read More about Unintended consequences of negative campaigning: Backlash and second-preference boost effects in a multi-party context.

The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament (2019)
Journal Article
Aldrich, A. S., & Daniel, W. T. (2019). The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament. Politics and Gender, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000291

Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2019. This article explores the consequences of quotas on the level of diversity observed in legislators' professional and political experience. We exam... Read More about The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament.

Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation (2019)
Journal Article
Gill, M. J., McGivern, G., Sturdy, A., Pereira, S., Gill, D. J., & Dopson, S. (2020). Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation. British Journal of Management, 31(3), 470-486. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12372

Organizational scholars increasingly view institutionalization as a process through which actors adapt or translate seemingly successful practices in a field to create variations that are specific to their own organization. Yet little is known about... Read More about Negotiating imitation: Examining the interactions of consultants and their clients to understand institutionalization as translation.

Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments (2019)
Journal Article
Burcu, O. (2019). Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments. European Political Science, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-019-00212-6

Group work is an essential aspect of our personal, educational and professional development, yet it is not a common method of assessment in Politics and International Relations departments at British Universities. This study explores how instructors... Read More about Refocusing group work on collaborative learning and diversifying assessments in political science departments.

Russian responses to the changing character of war (2019)
Journal Article
Renz, B. (2019). Russian responses to the changing character of war. International Affairs, 95(4), 817-834. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz100

For much of the post-Soviet era there was a widespread belief that improving capabilities required for dealing with local small wars and insurgencies was the central focus of Russian military reforms. As a result, Moscow's military assertiveness and... Read More about Russian responses to the changing character of war.

Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy (2019)
Journal Article
Rendall, M. (2019). Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy. Ethics, 129(3), 441-463. https://doi.org/10.1086/701481

Discounting future costs and benefits is often defended on the ground that our descendants will be richer. Simply to treat the future as better off, however, is to commit an ecological fallacy. Even if our descendants are better off when we average... Read More about Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy.

Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias (2019)
Journal Article
Walter, A., & Van der Eijk, C. (2019). Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias. International Journal of Press/Politics, 24(3), 363-382. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161219843404

We compare measures of the tone of parties’ campaigns in the 2015 General Election in England, based on, respectively, coverage of parties’ campaigns in six national newspapers, citizens’ perceptions, and expert judgments. It is the most extensive st... Read More about Measures of campaign negativity: comparing approaches and eliminating partisan bias.