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Ill-gotten gains: Partisan alignment, politicised grant transfers and English local election outcomes Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Liam Clegg, Graeme AM Davies
Are grant flows from the Westminster government to local authorities influenced by political dynamics, and if so do these politicised transfers influence local election outcomes? John and Ward suggested that, through the 1980s and 1990s, Conservative central governments favoured politically aligned local authorities. We demonstrate the continuation of this trend across the cohort of Labour, coalition
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Too little, too vague: How populist parties talk about deliberation in Europe Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Sergiu Gherghina, Bettina Mitru
Populist parties place the people at the centre of polity and politics. Such parties refer to direct democracy as a suitable avenue to involve people in the decision-making process but much less is known about their approaches towards deliberation. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature and analyses how populist parties talk about deliberation in their election manifestos. It tests
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COVID capitalism: The contested logistics of migrant labour supply chains in the double crisis Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Stephan Scheel, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova
The introduction to the special issue (SI) lays out the agenda and key concepts of the SI ‘COVID Capitalism: The Contested Logistics of Migrant Labour Supply Chains in the Double Crisis’. The contributions to the SI focus on the reconfiguration of the means and methods of the exploitation of migrant labour during the COVID-19 pandemic and the related reorganisation of contemporary border and migration
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Unpacking the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA): Internationalisation of capital, imperial rivalry and cooperation, and regional power agency Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Kayhan Valadbaygi
The existing accounts of the Iranian nuclear programme and the JCPOA suffer from ontological exteriority, in conjunction with the problematic conception of the state and unpersuasive assessments of...
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The democratic personality? The big five, authoritarianism and regime preference in consolidated democracies Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Julian Erhardt
Research frequently contends that support for democracy is a comparatively stable attitude. A previously neglected explanation for this finding is that regime preferences rest on deeply rooted psyc...
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Seasonal workers wanted! Germany’s seasonal labour migration regime and the COVID-19 pandemic Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Dorothea Biaback Anong
The COVID-19 pandemic publicly exposed the urgent need for seasonal workers in agriculture. In Germany, an entry ban and entry quotas for seasonal workers at the beginning of the pandemic caused ma...
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Governed bodies, discarded bodies: Notes for an analysis of contemporary migrations during Covid-19 Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Yerko Castro Neira
This article presents the results of an ethnographic research conducted in the northern border of Mexico from 2019 to 2021, specifically in the city of Tijuana. The objective of this article is to ...
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A corona-carnival? A carnivalesque interpretation of (im)mobilities under COVID-19 lockdowns Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias
The soviet social theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin developed the theory of the carnivalesque as a logic of exaggeration, inversion and irony. Beyond carnival events themselves, Bakhtin proposed this log...
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Neoliberal imperialism Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Lars Cornelissen
This essay approaches the neoliberal tradition of thought through the lens of liberal imperialism. Seeking to bring scholarship on the history of neoliberal ideas together with research on liberal ...
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The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Cecilia Vergnano
Pandemic-induced border lockdowns in the spring of 2020 severely disrupted the migrant-labour supply in Western EU economies. This disruption of the EU border regime took place for different, even ...
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Iran’s uprisings for ‘Women, Life, Freedom’: Over-determination, crisis, and the lineages of revolt Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
This article explores the manifold lineages of crisis and revolt currently afflicting the Islamic Republic of Iran, most recently bursting forth in the 2022/2023 national uprisings where women-led ...
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Writing a constitution without parties? The programmatic weakness of party-voter linkages in the Chilean political change Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Fabián Belmar, Mauricio Morales, Benjamín Villarroel
In 2020 Chile began a constitution-making process that will culminate in writing a new constitution through a 155-member constitutional convention. The Chilean party system is often described as on...
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Monitoring digital election campaigns: Assessing the transparency ecosystem in the United Kingdom Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Katharine Dommett, Sam Power
Digital election campaigning has undergone increased levels of scrutiny in recent years, with numerous calls for improved transparency. One key innovation has been the creation of online advertisin...
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Economic development, corruption, and income inequality: The role of the informal sector Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Mathew Y H Wong
This article investigates how the relationship between economic development and income inequality is conditioned by corruption and the informal sector. While corruption has traditionally been belie...
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Do people in authoritarian countries have lower standards when evaluating their governments? An anchoring vignettes approach Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Yingnan Joseph Zhou
Why do people in authoritarian countries think more positively of their governments than people in democratic countries? Existing research suggests three explanations: (1) people in authoritarian c...
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Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Somdeep Sen
This article studies the violent politics of stigmatisation and erasure of nationalist urban infrastructure. In general, urban infrastructure is a mechanism of state power. But, through the case of...
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The effect of employment on attendance: A response to ‘Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement’ Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Chris Hanretty
I challenge Strong’s findings that student employment is not related to attendance. I argue that the original analysis is guilty of controlling for a post-treatment variable. As a result, the coeff...
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Some further reflections on the effect of employment on attendance Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 James Strong
I offer some further reflections on the relationship between student employment and classroom engagement, in response to Hanretty’s discussion of my original article on the topic. First, I note tha...
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The capitalist virus Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson
Borders and mobilities have played key roles in the transformations of capitalism that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We attempt to distinguish novel developments in the control of movemen...
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Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap
Electoral volatility and clientelism were traditionally analysed through the lenses of clientelistic behaviour by political actors. However, we know very little about the importance of volatility f...
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Rage against the Port City: Southern theologies mobilising for climate justice Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Anupama M Ranawana
In the years following the physical end to the civil war in Sri Lanka, the island was beset with a series of infrastructure projects. One of these was the ‘Port City’, a project funded by the Gover...
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Reading the COVID-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault: The liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Raffaela Puggioni
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, most analyses have used a Foucauldian perspective to investigate the disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms that (il/liberal) states introduced to conta...
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Oppressive pines: Uprooting Israeli green colonialism and implanting Palestinian A’wna Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Ghada Sasa
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Israeli green colonialism, denoting the apartheid state’s misappropriation of environmentalism to eliminate the Indigenous people of Palestine and ...
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Whose autonomy? Conceptualising ‘colonial extraterritorial autonomy’ in the occupied Palestinian territories Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Tariq Dana, Ali Jarbawi
The notion of ‘Palestinian autonomy’ has occupied a central position in Israel’s post-1967 strategic planning in occupied Palestinian territories. Despite that, the notion remains understudied in r...
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The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Paul Copeland, Marzia Maccaferri
This article analyses the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving United Kingdom (UK) Eurosceptic discourse in the context of the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU). It...
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Race and climate change: Towards anti-racist ecologies Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Lisa Tilley, Anupama M Ranawana, Andrew Baldwin, Tyler M Tully
Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events whic...
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Right-wing populist parties and their appeal to pro-redistribution voters Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Pascal D König, Georg Wenzelburger
As anti-establishment parties, right-wing populists (RWPs) have been successful in attracting the politically discontent. This article shows how this appeal of RWPs asymmetrically affects citizens ...
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Comparative evidence on cultural variability in authoritarianism: An ethical and relational perspective Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Meixi Zhuang
Is authoritarianism a universal psychological phenomenon? Does the concept of authoritarianism in its current form effectively explain anti-democratic tendencies across societies? From a cultural p...
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Kinder and gentler ministers in consensus democracies? Personality and the selection of government members Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Martina Flick Witzig, Adrian Vatter
This study examines the personality traits of candidates for the Swiss government and how they are related to the candidates’ electoral chances. Switzerland as a paradigmatic consensual democracy i...
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An inquiry into populism’s relation to science Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Cristóbal Bellolio
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a question seldom addressed in a straightforward manner by political theorists: whether populism is intrinsically anti-science. This article identifies three d...
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The 2021 federal German election: A gender and intersectional analysis Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Gabriele Abels, Petra Ahrens, Anne Jenichen, Malliga Och
On 26 September 2021, Germans elected the 20th Bundestag. This election was special in many ways. The article analyses the electoral campaign, voting behaviour, turnout, and the formation of a new ...
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Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’ Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Aurelien Mondon
While mainstream elite actors with the ability to shape public discourse (politicians, academics, and the media) generally oppose far-right politics, it is widely argued that such politics represen...
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The nexus between the Baltic governments and think tanks as instruments of foreign and security policy Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Danguolė Bardauskaitė
This study aims to unveil the nexus between the governments of the Baltic states and think tanks (TTs), which work on foreign and security policy. The article argues that the Baltic governments wis...
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Nostalgia and political analysis: A perspective from the Israeli case Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Yaacov Yadgar
I argue here for the relevance and importance of the study of nostalgia for political analysis. Focusing on the case of Israel, I propose that a study of nostalgia can yield, at least in the case a...
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Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement in a school of politics and international relations Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 James Strong
During the 2020/2021 academic year, I conducted a mixed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the drivers of student engagement in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mar...
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‘Fix the system!’ Variations of anti-establishment normalisation strategies in comparative perspective Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Bartek Pytlas
This article explores how different anti-establishment parties (AEPs) can themselves strategically enact an image of both distinctiveness and ‘normality’ behind their political offer. For this purp...
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Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Flo Bremner
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020, and the international uprisings which followed, racism moved to the forefront of public discourse. Yet, racism has n...
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The mobile and carceral logics of Haifa Port Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Sharri Plonski
This article investigates Haifa Port’s carceral and mobile geographies by examining how Israel is being re-made, rebranded, and harnessed as ‘safe and secure space’ for the transits of global capital. The article contends with ports as key protagonists of empire, situated in an enduring and ongoing history of colonial routes and route-making that are raced and moving with/through the transits of colonised
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Direct democracy, personality, and political interest in comparative perspective Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Markus Freitag, Alina Zumbrunn
For many, direct democracy is said to increase political interest. To date, however, empirical findings regarding this relationship remain inconclusive. In this article, we claim that this inconclusiveness can be partly ascribed to the diverse effects that direct democracy has on individuals. In other words, direct democracy influences political interest, but how and to what degree depends on an individual’s
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Progressive constitutional deliberation: Political equality, social inequalities and democracy’s legitimacy challenge Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Aris Trantidis
Social inequalities fuel a debate about the meaning of political equality. Formal procedural equality is criticised for reproducing discriminatory outcomes against disadvantaged groups but affirmative action, particularly in the form of group quotas, is also contested. When opposing conceptions of substantive equality support divergent views about which procedural rule genuinely respects political
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The ‘incomplete’ failure of political Islam: The Justice and Development Party and the Freedom and Justice Party as case studies Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Shaimaa Magued
How would Islamists succeed to sustain their rule in spite of their lack of an Islamic blueprint for governance? I draw on an original fieldwork study conducted in Turkey and Egypt from 2010 to 2013 to advance a theory linking Islamists’ rule sustainability and political leverage vis-à-vis the state establishment. In contrast with post-Islamism, the results contended that Islamists sustain their rule
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The disruption of an institutionalised and polarised party system: Discontent with democracy and the rise of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Lucas Perelló, Patricio Navia
Studies on party system collapse or individual-party breakdowns view programmatic inconsistency or convergence as necessary for abrupt party system change. In theory, a new or fringe contender can suddenly emerge and disrupt the party system under such circumstances. We test that claim by examining Nayib Bukele’s 2019 presidential election victory in El Salvador. With data from the AmericasBarometer
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Climate refugees: A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Lydia Ayame Hiraide
Against the background of climate scepticism and raging anti-immigrant sentiments across Europe, the politics of climate change and the politics of migration are fraught with tension. The two converge over discussions about ‘climate refugees’. But what merit does the term ‘climate refugee’ have, and are there potential problems associated with it? This article pays attention to how racialised discourses
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Institutional listening in deliberative democracy: Towards a deliberative logic of transmission Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Mary F Scudder, Selen A Ercan, Kerry McCallum
This article explores the role of institutional listening in deliberative democracy, focusing particularly on its contribution to the transmission process between the public sphere and formal institutions. We critique existing accounts of transmission for prioritizing voice over listening and for remaining constrained by an ‘aggregative logic’ of the flow of ideas and voices in a democracy. We argue
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Who wants COVID-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Christina-Marie Juen, Michael Jankowski, Robert A Huber, Torren Frank, Leena Maaß, Markus Tepe
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the major obstacles for successfully combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve a sufficiently high vaccination rate, calls for compulsory vaccinations have been discussed controversially. This study analyses what drives citizens’ attitudes towards compulsory vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we are interested in the impact of party- and expert
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Counter-hegemonic leadership for democratic alter-politics in our times Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Alexandros Kioupkiolis
This article sets out to grapple with strategic challenges facing democratic alter-politics in our times, dwelling on the question of leadership to explore ways of overcoming the frailties and risks that beset grassroots collective agency for democratic renewal. Discussion begins thus by fleshing out the notion of contemporary democratic alter-politics which breaks both with top-down statist rule and
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Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Chris Rossdale
Recent interventions in critical security studies have argued that the field has struggled to account for the racialised/racist foundations of security politics. This article engages with the US Black Panther Party (BPP), arguing that the Party did important work to show how security politics is dependent on racial violence. The idea that we can theorise global politics through struggle (`struggle
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IR, imperialism, and the Global South: From Libya to Venezuela Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Matteo Capasso
This article brings together two cases to contribute to the growing body of literature rethinking the study of international relations (IR) and the Global South: The Libyan Arab al-Jamāhīrīyah and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Drawing on media representations and secondary literature from IR and international political economy (IPE), it critically examines three main conceptual theses (authoritarian
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Regulatory regionalism and the limits of ASEAN banking integration: The case of Indonesia Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Moch Faisal Karim, Adelia Putri Irawan, Tirta Nugraha Mursitama
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) aims to integrate the banking industry in the region. To achieve this, ASEAN members have agreed to create the ASEAN Banking Integration Framework (ABIF) to support such integration. Despite being endorsed in 2014, the framework remains vague and lacks clear policy coordination arrangements as well as standardisation instruments that enable ASEAN member
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The missing link: Studying political leadership from the followers’ perspective Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-11-17 Rudolf Metz
Recent political developments suggest that political followership has played increasingly vital roles in modern democratic politics. However, scholarship seemingly lacks proper conceptual and methodological tools for analysing why and how citizens follow their leaders, and what the role of this relationship is in personalised politics and political leadership. Addressing the research gap, this article
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Youth doing politics in times of increasing inequalities Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Maria Grasso, Marco Giugni
Particularly in the current context of rapid political change it is key to understand the political participation of young people and what underpins their political engagement patterns as well the as the inequalities that may lay beneath them. While there is a rich literature on youth participation, to date we have lacked the data to carry out detailed subgroup analyses to understand differences in
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Avatars of Eurocentrism in international political economy textbooks: The case of the Middle East and North Africa Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Hannes Baumann
The project to decolonise the curriculum revolves around rethinking margin and centre of the discipline. To the extent that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is at the margin of international political economy (IPE), it is the ideal entry point to decolonise the curriculum. I conduct a summative content analysis of the six most commonly used IPE textbooks. To what extent do they reproduce or
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How does crisis affect the conflict between technocracy and populism? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Anders Esmark
The article focuses on the relationship between technocracy and populism during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. On one hand, this relationship has been defined by populist denial, displacement of crisis, and rejection of the technocratic consensus on the need for urgent and decisive action in the face of the global pandemic. On the other hand, COVID-19 has also led to convergence between the
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Gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people in Europe: Are young women less politically engaged than young men? Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Maria Grasso, Katherine Smith
This paper contributes to the literature by examining gender inequalities in political participation and political engagement among young people from a comparative perspective. By analyzing data on young people from nine European countries collected in 2018, we examine gender inequalities in participation in various modes of conventional and unconventional activism as well as related attitudes, broader
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Intra-generational inequalities in young people’s political participation in Europe: The impact of social class on youth political engagement Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Maria Grasso, Marco Giugni
The declining political engagement of youth is a concern in many European democracies. However, young people are also spearheading protest movements cross-nationally. While there has been research on political inequalities between generations or inter-generational differences, research looking at differences within youth itself, or inequalities between young people from different social backgrounds
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Analysing intra-party power: Swedish selection committees over five decades Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Niklas Bolin, Nicholas Aylott
Unlike political parties in many other countries, Swedish ones have not adopted more inclusive methods for choosing their election candidates and party leaders. While the party congress formally selects important party offices, the process is managed, prior to the formal vote, by a selection committee vested with the task of filtering the pool of potential leaders and proposing one of them as the new
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Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Sophia Hatzisavvidou, James Martin
This article introduces the special issue on Rhetorical Approaches to Contemporary Political Studies. It underscores the importance of innovations in political speech as a key to the continuing attraction of scholars to rhetorical methods. This is particularly relevant at a moment of crisis and disruption in established democracies when the parameters of acceptable discourse have been brought into
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Transitions and non-transitions from neoliberalism in Latin America and Southern Europe Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Juan Pablo Ferrero, Ramón I Centeno, Antonios Roumpakis
We seek to disentangle the process through which some democratic polities ‘escape’ from neoliberal rule while others do not. We understand neoliberalism as the resulting equilibrium provoked by the restoration of class power that undermined the pro-labour policies of the post-war period. Why do some democracies enter a route of political experimentation that challenges the status quo while others remain
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Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Rafeef Ziadah
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made headlines for its use of mass surveillance technologies against UAE residents, as well as opponents externally. Under the guise of protecting national security, there has been a proliferation of state-led initiatives to monitor public spaces and online activity across the UAE, making the country an important laboratory for advanced surveillance tools. This article
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(Un)Just transitions and Black dispossession: The disposability of Caribbean ‘refugees’ and the political economy of climate justice Politics (IF 1.731) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Keston K Perry
Caribbean populations face increased displacement, dispossession and debt burdens due to shocks related to climate change. As the major neighbouring power that is the most significant historical contributor to global warming, the United States has persistently deflected from this responsibility. Instead, its climate plans are weaponized to target potential climate refugees who constitute a ‘national