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It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization (2015)
Journal Article
Casal Bértoa, F. (2017). It’s Been Mostly About Money! A Multi-method Research Approach to the Sources of Institutionalization. Sociological Methods and Research, 46(4), 683-714. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124115588998

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
Van der Meer, T. W., Walter, A., & Van Aelst, P. (2015). The Contingency of Voter Learning: How Election Debates Influence Voters’ Ability and Accuracy to Position Parties in the 2010 Dutch Election Campaign. Political Communication, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2015.1016639

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
McCabe, H. (2015). John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 272(2),

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’.

Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation (2015)
Book
(2015). A. Fulda (Ed.), Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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
Adeney, K., & Taggart, P. (2015). Introduction: The Future of Democracy. Government and Opposition, 50(03), 325-335. doi:10.1017/gov.2015.12

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
Daniel, W. T. (2015). Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198716402.001.0001

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
Trumm, S. (2016). What does it take to get elected in a post-communist democracy? Explaining the success and failure of parliamentary candidates in Estonia. East European Politics and Societies, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325415577862

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
O'Hara, K., & Stevens, D. (in press). Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism. Policy and Internet, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.88

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
Adeney, K. (2015). A move to majoritarian nationalism?: challenges of representation in South Asia. Representation, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2015.1026213

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
Bales, K. (2015). Slavery as a Social Institution. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 43-48. (2nd). Elsevier

Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament (2015)
Journal Article
Trumm, S. (2015). Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament. Journal of Common Market Studies, 53(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12237

Parliamentary representation is a fluid concept. Yet, while the behaviour of elected representatives during roll call votes has been widely analysed, we know little about how parliamentarians act when their individual voting choices are not made publ... Read More about Voting procedures and parliamentary representation in the European Parliament.

Risky business: factor analysis of survey data – assessing the probability of incorrect dimensionalisation (2015)
Journal Article
van der Eijk, C., & Rose, J. (2015). Risky business: factor analysis of survey data – assessing the probability of incorrect dimensionalisation. PLoS ONE, 10(3), Article 0118900. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118900

This paper undertakes a systematic assessment of the extent to which factor analysis the correct number of latent dimensions (factors) when applied to ordered categorical survey items (so-called Likert items). We simulate 2400 data sets of uni-dimens... Read More about Risky business: factor analysis of survey data – assessing the probability of incorrect dimensionalisation.

Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8 (2015)
Journal Article
Gill, D. J. (2015). Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8. Economic History Review, 68(3), 1016-1037. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12095

The UK received its first sovereign credit ratings in 1978. Despite having required financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund only 18 months earlier, the British government managed to secure ‘triple-A’ ratings from both Standard and P... Read More about Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8.

Modern slavery research: the UK picture (2015)
Report
Bales, K., Hedwards, B., Silverman, B., Costaguta, L., Trodd, Z., & Wright, N. (2015). Modern slavery research: the UK picture. Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner's Office

Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics (2014)
Journal Article
Mumford, A. (2015). Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics. International Politics, 52(1), https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2014.40

Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision-making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’ we have arguably see... Read More about Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics.

The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (2014)
Book
Ritter, D. (2014). The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199658329.001.0001

Revolutions no longer stand to be recognized. In contrast to the processes of political and social change spearheaded—and romanticized—by revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao, contemporary revolutions no longer require violent struggle in order to secu... Read More about The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (1-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.intro

Corruption is one of the most high-profile issues in the contemporary world. According to the 2011 ‘World Speaks’ surveys, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, corruption was the world’s most talked-about problem, ahead of extreme povert... Read More about Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption.

Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (137-153). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.ch10

How do we measure some thing that is, by its very nature, largely hidden? This is the conundrum that faces all who have attempted to develop a means of measuring corruption. Given the seemingly intractable nature of this problem, the obvious question... Read More about Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits.