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Does Press Freedom Come with Responsibility? Media for and against Populism in Taiwan (2021)
Journal Article
Lin, L., & Lee, C. (2021). Does Press Freedom Come with Responsibility? Media for and against Populism in Taiwan. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 17(1), 119-140

On November 18, 2020, the National Communications Commission (NCC) revoked the application of cable news station Chung Tien TV (CTiTV) to renew its broadcasting license.

Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights (2020)
Journal Article
Wash, I. (2020). Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00621-9

© 2020, The Author(s). This article explains the value of discourse analysis for interpreting the construction and resolution of policy dilemmas in the field of international education. Its case material is drawn from official documents relating to i... Read More about Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights.

Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020)
Journal Article
Schwarz, K., & Nicholson, A. (2020). Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame. Human Rights Review, 21, 391-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-020-00604-y

The identification of contemporary forms of slavery is often problematically demarcated by reference to transatlantic enslavement as the definitive archetype. Such an approach overlooks other historic slaveries and neglects the totality of the maanga... Read More about Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame.

St. Augustine and Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of God (2020)
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Burns, T. (2021). St. Augustine and Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of God. European Legacy, 26(1), 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2020.1793959

This article considers what St. Augustine has to say about administration (administrare) in The City of God, as well as in The Rule of St. Augustine and in Of the Work of Monks. Rather than focusing on Augustine’s political thought as traditionally u... Read More about St. Augustine and Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of God.

US Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive vs. Non-Extractive Sectors (2020)
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De Soysa, I., Janz, N., & Vadlamannati, K. C. (2020). US Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive vs. Non-Extractive Sectors. Business and Society, 60(8), 2136-2174. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320928972

The consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) for human rights protection are poorly understood. We propose that the impact of FDI varies across industries. In particular, extractive firms in the oil and mining industries go where the resources... Read More about US Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive vs. Non-Extractive Sectors.

Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election (2020)
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Spary, C. (2020). Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election. Contemporary South Asia, 28(2), 223-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2020.1765987

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Gender quota campaigns to increase women’s parliamentary presence in India have been ongoing for more than twenty years. Meanwhile, each general election results in the slow grow... Read More about Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election.

Livelihood and vulnerability in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda: lessons of community and resilience (2020)
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Tan-Mullins, M., Eadie, P., Atienza, M. E., & Mullins, M. T. (2020). Livelihood and vulnerability in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda: lessons of community and resilience. Natural Hazards, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03984-z

Livelihood strategies that are crafted in ‘extra-ordinary’ post-disaster conditions should also be able to function once some semblance of normalcy has resumed. This article aims to show that the vulnerability experienced in relation to Typhoon Yolan... Read More about Livelihood and vulnerability in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda: lessons of community and resilience.

Loyalist Mobilization and Cross-Border Violence in Rural Ulster, 1972-1974 (2020)
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Burke, E. (2022). Loyalist Mobilization and Cross-Border Violence in Rural Ulster, 1972-1974. Terrorism and Political Violence, 34(6), 1057-1075. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1745777

This article argues that, at a tactical level, loyalist terrorism in the Irish border region between 1972 and 1974 worked. Cross-border attacks including bombings in Irish towns prompted the Irish government to reinforce security along the border—a l... Read More about Loyalist Mobilization and Cross-Border Violence in Rural Ulster, 1972-1974.

The production of leisure: understanding the social function of football development in China (2020)
Journal Article
Hesketh, C., & Sullivan, J. (2020). The production of leisure: understanding the social function of football development in China. Globalizations, 17(6), 1061-1079. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1737408

In this article, we utilise the social theories of Antonio Gramsci and Henri Lefebvre to explore the role that leisure activities such as football play within contemporary China in relation to issues of class. We argue that the recent promotion of fo... Read More about The production of leisure: understanding the social function of football development in China.

Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations (2020)
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Lee, D. S., Park, S., Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (2021). Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations. Public Management Review, 23(8), 1160-1183. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2020.1730941

In this article, we examine public employees' perceptions of agency heads' leadership styles by focusing on the role of gender in organizational management. Employing an original survey experiment with over 800 national civil servants in South Korea,... Read More about Civil servants’ perceptions of agency heads’ leadership styles: the role of gender in public sector organizations.

Power-Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?) (2019)
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Adeney, K., & Swenden, W. (2019). Power-Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?). Swiss Political Science Review, 25(4), 450-475. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12360

© 2019 Swiss Political Science Association India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster constitution and simple plurality electoral system, albeit also with a federal structure. It was eventuall... Read More about Power-Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?).

The co-evolution of media and politics in Taiwan: implications for political communications (2019)
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Sullivan, J. (2019). The co-evolution of media and politics in Taiwan: implications for political communications. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 2(1), 85-110. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00201005

Over the course of democratisation, Taiwan’s communications environment has experienced significant changes. Liberalisation and commercialisation of the media, and the emergence and popularisation of digital, have substantially altered the informatio... Read More about The co-evolution of media and politics in Taiwan: implications for political communications.

Restrained change: party systems in times of economic crisis (2018)
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Casal Bértoa, F., & Weber, T. (2019). Restrained change: party systems in times of economic crisis. Journal of Politics, 81(1), 233-245. https://doi.org/10.1086/700202

The recent global financial crisis has been a serious stress test for representative democracies. Voter support has supposedly become more volatile, fragmented, and polarized, leaving elites with an intricate mix of economic and political challenges.... Read More about Restrained change: party systems in times of economic crisis.

The best of both worlds? Evaluating the campaign behaviour of dual candidates (2018)
Journal Article
Trumm, S. (2018). The best of both worlds? Evaluating the campaign behaviour of dual candidates. Electoral Studies, 56, 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2018.09.002

The conventional wisdom of electoral politics suggests that parliamentary candidates who run for office under candidate-centred mechanisms tend to conduct more intense and personalised campaigns than those who run under party-centred ones. But what a... Read More about The best of both worlds? Evaluating the campaign behaviour of dual candidates.

Interlocutions with passive revolution (2018)
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Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2018). Interlocutions with passive revolution. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513618787659

© The Author(s) 2018. This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and particularly the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism’s outward expansion as well as issues... Read More about Interlocutions with passive revolution.

The hierarchies of age-period-cohort research: Political context and the development of generational turnout patterns (2013)
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Smets, K., & Neundorf, A. (2014). The hierarchies of age-period-cohort research: Political context and the development of generational turnout patterns. Electoral Studies, 33, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.06.009

Voters that come of age at roughly the same time share common influences because of the specific political context during their formative years. We can therefore assume the errors in a model explaining their political behavior to be dependent. Recent... Read More about The hierarchies of age-period-cohort research: Political context and the development of generational turnout patterns.