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Economic crisis and party responsiveness on the left–right dimension in the European Union (2017)
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The economic crisis within the European Union has had a significant impact on domestic politics in the member states, affecting the links between parties and citizens and accentuating the tensions parties face between governing responsibility and bei... Read More about Economic crisis and party responsiveness on the left–right dimension in the European Union.

The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns (2017)
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The personal characteristics of political elites play an important role in British elections. While the personalisation of the media’s election coverage has been the subject of much debate, we know less about the conditions under which voters receive... Read More about The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns.

Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques (2017)
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Organizational scholars increasingly recognize the value of employing historical research. Yet the fields of history and organization studies struggle to reconcile. In this article, we contend that a closer connection between these two fields is poss... Read More about Constructing trustworthy historical narratives: criteria, principles, and techniques.

Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship (2017)
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Owing to China’s austere censorship regulations on film media, directors of films and documentaries engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes have struggled to bring their work to domestic attention. Working outside of the state-fun... Read More about Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship.

Restructuring the state: mainstream responses to regional nationalism (2017)
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Under what conditions are ‘holding-together’ federations created? And what shapes the development of their territorial structures? This article answers these questions through a comparative-historical analysis of territorial restructuring in Belgium,... Read More about Restructuring the state: mainstream responses to regional nationalism.

The origins of redistributive policy preferences: political socialisation with and without a welfare state (2017)
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Research on the impact of the macroeconomy on individual-level preferences for redistribution has produced varying results. This paper presents a new theory on the presence of an expansive welfare state during one’s formative years as a source of het... Read More about The origins of redistributive policy preferences: political socialisation with and without a welfare state.

Prefigurative politics between ethical practice and absent promise (2017)
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'Prefigurative politics' has become a popular term for social movements' ethos of unity between means and ends, but its conceptual genealogy has escaped attention. This article disentangles two components: an ethical revolutionary practice, chiefly i... Read More about Prefigurative politics between ethical practice and absent promise.

Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US (2017)
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In decision-making on the politically-contentious issue of unconventional gas development, the UK Government and European Commission are attempting to learn from the US experience. Although economic, environmental, and health impacts and regulatory c... Read More about Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US.

The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Volatility is a widely used term in political science, but even the most widely used measure of volatility, Pedersen's index, can mask as much as it reveals. His simple and elegant calculation has become part of the political scie... Read More about The volatility of volatility: Measuring change in party vote shares.

Louis Althusser’s critique of the Communist Party and the question of the postrevolutionary state (2017)
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This essay explores some aspects of the debate led by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar on the strategy of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the 1970s. They saw the Euro-communist turn of the party as a strategy that accepted the influence of soc... Read More about Louis Althusser’s critique of the Communist Party and the question of the postrevolutionary state.

Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis (2017)
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In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding of essential public services, cuts in p... Read More about Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis.

Social diversity affects the number of parties even under first-past-the-post rule (2017)
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Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology (2017)
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This article provides an assessment and critique of the National Integrity System approach and methodology, informed by the experience of conducting an NIS review in Cambodia. It explores four key issues that potentially undermine the relevance and... Read More about Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology.

Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics (2017)
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In this article, I critically evaluate a characteristic tendency that is found across the various traditions of poststructuralism, both narrowly and more broadly defined. This is an increasing propensity to be preoccupied with ontological questions a... Read More about Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics.

The religious dimension of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2017)
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Citizen–Media Interaction in China’s Local Participatory Reform: a Contingent Participation Model (2017)
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Mass media play an important role in grassroots democracy, yet the dynamics of media-citizen interaction remains under-researched. Using the case of “Civil Monitory Organization” (CMO) program in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou city, we show how local media and t... Read More about Citizen–Media Interaction in China’s Local Participatory Reform: a Contingent Participation Model.

The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power (2017)
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This research paper examines how foundations—foreign and domestic, public and private, operating and grant making engage with Chinese civil society organisations in an authoritarian political context. In contrast to previous literature, which conside... Read More about The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power.

An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey (2017)
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Only a few studies have measured the expansion of European Union competences and they have relied on information derived from consecutive treaties, producing measures that do not vary in between. But decisions on the allocation of authority to the Eu... Read More about An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey.

The moral person of the state: Pufendorf, sovereignty and composite polities (2017)
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Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right” (2017)
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Between May 2012 and September 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’ successfully collected close to 1.9 million signatures across the European Union (EU), forcing the Commission into an official positi... Read More about Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”.