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How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum (2015)
Journal Article

Pakistan has had a chequered democratic history but elections in 2013 marked a second turnover in power, and the first transition in Pakistan’s history from one freely elected government to another. How do we best categorize (and therefore understan... Read More about How to understand Pakistan’s hybrid regime: the importance of a multidimensional continuum.

Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012 (2015)
Journal Article

Strategic abstentions—in which legislators abstain from votes for ideological reasons—are a poorly understood feature of legislative voting records. The paper discusses a spatial model for legislators’ revealed preferences that accounts for abstentio... Read More about Measuring and accounting for strategic abstentions in the US Senate, 1989-2012.

Constructing a 'great' role for Britain in an age of austerity: interpreting coalition foreign policy, 2010-2015 (2015)
Journal Article

This article interprets the ideational underpinnings of the British Conservative–Liberal coalition government’s foreign policy from 2010 to 2015. It uses qualitative discourse analysis of speeches, statements and policy documents to unpack the tradit... Read More about Constructing a 'great' role for Britain in an age of austerity: interpreting coalition foreign policy, 2010-2015.

Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76 (2015)
Journal Article

This article argues that state violence in Northern Ireland during the period 1970–1976—when violence during the Troubles was at its height and before the re-introduction of the policy of police primacy in 1976—was on a greatly reduced scale from tha... Read More about Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76.

'Hell, No!' Labour's campaign: the correct diagnosis but the wrong doctor? (2015)
Journal Article

Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference (2015)
Journal Article

Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called ‘the argument from no difference’: that is, ‘if I don’t do it, someone else will’. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it ca... Read More about Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference.

Mere addition and the separateness of persons (2015)
Journal Article

How can we resist the repugnant conclusion? James Griffin has suggested that part way through the sequence we may reach a world—let us call it “J”— in which the lives are lexically superior to those that follow. If it would be better to live a single... Read More about Mere addition and the separateness of persons.

Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England (2015)
Journal Article

The last decade has seen the rise of literatures that have focused on the rapid expansion of the numbers of international students in higher education globally and the growing policy discourse around improving graduate employability. However, both, i... Read More about Rethinking the employability of international graduate migrants: reflections on the experiences of Zimbabweans with degrees from England.

‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’ (2015)
Journal Article

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was waged by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’. This paper will examine how the war was a space in the ongoing geographical extension of global capitalism linked to U.S. foreign policy. Was it simply the decision b... Read More about ‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’.

It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization (2015)
Journal Article

Although much has been written about the process of party system insti- tutionalization in different regions, the reasons why some party systems institutionalize while others do not still remain a mystery. Seeking to fill this lacuna in the literatur... Read More about It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization.

The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign (2015)
Journal Article

Election campaigns are expected to inform voters about parties’ issue positions, thereby increasing voters’ ability to influence future policy and thus enhancing the practice of democratic government. We argue that campaign learning is not only conti... Read More about The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign.

John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’ (2015)
Journal Article

John Stuart Mill’s commitment to female equality has generally been acknowledged as positive, but certain passages have been damned as anti-feminist or myopic regarding the reality of patriarchy, and used as sticks with which to beat both Mill’s theo... Read More about John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’.

The devil's long tail: religious and other radicals in the Internet marketplace (2015)
Book

Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation (2015)
Book

This book focuses on the question of whether and how civil society may contribute to policy innovation. As the focus of civil society research is often more on the constraints on civil society by the state and less on the agency and effects of civil... Read More about Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation.

Introduction: The Future of Democracy (2015)
Journal Article

In this article the special issue on the future of democracy is introduced with a discussion of the rationale and a brief overview of the contributions that follow. In addition the authors highlight four major themes that run through the special is... Read More about Introduction: The Future of Democracy.

Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels? (2015)
Book

This book presents an institutional theory for career behaviour in the European Parliament (EP). By focusing on the professional ambition of members of the EP (MEPs), the study presents a rigorous analysis of the powerful multinational legislature fr... Read More about Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?.

What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia (2015)
Journal Article

The literature on post-communist democracies has traditionally suggested that organisational strength is considerably less important for electoral success than extensive media-based campaigns. Recent studies on party-level electoral dynamics, however... Read More about What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia.

Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism (2015)
Journal Article

This article considers claims made by various authors that the use of filtering and recommendation technology on the Internet can deprive certain communities of feedback, and instead amplify groups' viewpoints, leading to polarization of opinion acro... Read More about Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism.

A move to majoritarian nationalism?: challenges of representation in South Asia (2015)
Journal Article

Despite India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and increasing turnouts in many of the countries of South Asia, recent elections raise concerns about the threat to democracy in the form of majoritarianism. Many of the countries of South Asia... Read More about A move to majoritarian nationalism?: challenges of representation in South Asia.

Slavery as a Social Institution (2015)
Book Chapter