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Unlocking the Statistics of Slavery (2017)
Journal Article

MGNREGA, power politics, and computerization in Andhra Pradesh (2017)
Journal Article

The link between e-governance and accountability of state administrations for service provision has been problematized in the literature to date. However, little is known about its application to anti-poverty programmes, of which public workfare sche... Read More about MGNREGA, power politics, and computerization in Andhra Pradesh.

When business met politics: the case of Want Want, a different type of media capital in Taiwan (2017)
Journal Article

Since 2008, the Taiwanese business group Want Want, having made a fortune in China, has returned to Taiwan to buy a major media group and attempt to exert political influence on Taiwanese society. This paper analyses the rise and rationale of this ne... Read More about When business met politics: the case of Want Want, a different type of media capital in Taiwan.

Poverty reduction, inequalities and human development in the BRICS: policies and outcomes (2017)
Journal Article

This paper assesses headway made by governments in Brazil, India, China and South Africa in pursuing three goals: reducing income poverty; reaching the poorest of the poor; and reducing inequality. Outcomes vary as we move up the ladder from the firs... Read More about Poverty reduction, inequalities and human development in the BRICS: policies and outcomes.

The limits of prescription: courts and social policy in India and South Africa (2017)
Journal Article

This paper explores social policy-making role of supreme courts in India and South Africa. It argues that that both significantly shaped social policy. But neither imposed its will on elected government – both recognised that judicial power is limite... Read More about The limits of prescription: courts and social policy in India and South Africa.

Parties between thresholds: State subsidies and party behaviour in post-communist democracies (2017)
Journal Article

Much has been written about what makes political parties form, persist, change and die. One factor often brought into this discussion is the availability of resources in general and of state financing of political parties in particular. However, an e... Read More about Parties between thresholds: State subsidies and party behaviour in post-communist democracies.

Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit (2017)
Journal Article

The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the EU –for a Brexit’- brought an end to the country’s membership of the European Union (EU) and set it on a fundamentally different course.... Read More about Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit.

America, Brexit and the security of Europe (2017)
Journal Article

The Obama administration played a surprisingly interventionist role in the UK referendum on membership of the European Union, arguing that a vote to leave would damage European security. Yet this article contends that US attitudes towards the EU as a... Read More about America, Brexit and the security of Europe.

Contemporary Coercive Labor Practices: Slavery Today (2017)
Book Chapter

Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’ (2017)
Journal Article

Contemporary theorists of constituent power recognise a tension in which the omnipotent novelty of constituent power is necessarily policed by constituted power. Beginning with Arendt’s claim that the categories of constitutional stability and politi... Read More about Hannah Arendt, the problem of the absolute and the paradox of constitutionalism, or ‘How to restart time within an inexorable time continuum’.

Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate (2017)
Journal Article

Roll call data are widely used to assess legislators’ preferences and ideology, as well as test theories of legislative behavior. In particular, roll call data is often used to determine whether the revealed preferences of legislators are affected by... Read More about Assessing differences in legislators’ revealed preferences: a case study on the 107th U.S. Senate.

Foreign direct investment and repression: an analysis across industry sectors (2017)
Journal Article

The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on repression in developing nations is still disputed. Some argue that FDI improves economic development and exports human rights values. Others criticise the exploitation of cheap labour and resources, w... Read More about Foreign direct investment and repression: an analysis across industry sectors.

Foreign correspondents: a case study of China in the digital and globalization age (2017)
Journal Article

While Western foreign correspondence is retreating, Chinese central media and correspondents, resourced by the government’s financial backing for media’s role in public diplomacy, are taking the opportunities to expand overseas bureaus, hire experien... Read More about Foreign correspondents: a case study of China in the digital and globalization age.

Allied special forces and prisoner of war recovery operations in Europe, 1944-1945 (2017)
Journal Article

This article investigates the efforts made to protect prisoners of war (POWs) in German hands at the end of the Second World War. Challenging contemporary and historical judgments, it argues that Allied plans were reasonable, realistic, and reflected... Read More about Allied special forces and prisoner of war recovery operations in Europe, 1944-1945.

Reconsidering the value of covert research: the role of ambiguous consent in participant observation (2017)
Journal Article

In this article, we provide a nuanced perspective on the benefits and costs of covert research. In particular, we illustrate the value of such an approach by focusing on covert participant observation. We posit that all observational studies sit alon... Read More about Reconsidering the value of covert research: the role of ambiguous consent in participant observation.

Defeat of the People’s Army?: the 2015 British general election and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) (2017)
Journal Article

The 2015 general election in Britain saw a major attempt by a relatively new party - the UK Independence Party (UKIP) - to secure elected representation. While UKIP received nearly four million votes, the party left the 2015 general election with jus... Read More about Defeat of the People’s Army?: the 2015 British general election and the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

Tales of the unexpected: the selection of British party leaders since 1963 (2017)
Journal Article

Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Leader of the Labour Party in 2015 stunned observers and practitioners of British politics alike. In this article, we first outline a theoretical framework that purports to explain why political parties operating in parlia... Read More about Tales of the unexpected: the selection of British party leaders since 1963.

Does ethnofederalism explain the success of Indian federalism? (2017)
Journal Article

Ethnofederalism has been contested as a solution for diverse societies as seen recently in Nepal (where federalism has been accepted, but the design and number of units remains heavily contested) and Myanmar (where ethnic minority demands for increas... Read More about Does ethnofederalism explain the success of Indian federalism?.

How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter focuses on party switching. The civil-war cleavage that differentiated the two main Irish parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, has been gradually diminishing in importance in recent decades. This trend reached a crescendo in 2011, when th... Read More about How generational replacement undermined the electoral resilience of Fianna Fáil.

Political socialisation and the making of citizens (2017)
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