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Off-road policing: communications technology and government authority in Somaliland (2016)
Journal Article
Hills, A. E. (2016). Off-road policing: communications technology and government authority in Somaliland. International Affairs, 92(5), 1061-1078. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12701

Prompted by the trend to see information and communications technology (ICT) as a tool for capacity building, this article asks whether the use of ICT has—or can—recast centre–periphery relations in a hybrid country such as Somaliland. Taking as its... Read More about Off-road policing: communications technology and government authority in Somaliland.

Are We in the Same Boat or Not? The Opposite Effects of Absolute and Relative Income Shifts on Redistributive Preferences (2016)
Journal Article
Mérola, V., & Helgason, A. F. (2016). Are We in the Same Boat or Not? The Opposite Effects of Absolute and Relative Income Shifts on Redistributive Preferences. Journal of Politics, 78(4), 1107-1123. https://doi.org/10.1086/686254

What are the effects of economic mobility and macroeconomic cycles on redistributive preferences? These questions have gained more prominence in recent years, yet our main theoretical frameworks often provide conflicting predictions and empirical evi... Read More about Are We in the Same Boat or Not? The Opposite Effects of Absolute and Relative Income Shifts on Redistributive Preferences.

A High Bar or a Double Standard? Gender, Competence, and Information in Political Campaigns (2016)
Journal Article
Ditonto, T. (2017). A High Bar or a Double Standard? Gender, Competence, and Information in Political Campaigns. Political Behavior, 39(2), 301-325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-016-9357-5

This study seeks to determine whether subjects in two dynamic process tracing experiments react differently to information related to a candidate’s competence when that candidate is a woman, vs. when he is a man. I find that subjects evaluate a candi... Read More about A High Bar or a Double Standard? Gender, Competence, and Information in Political Campaigns.

Dyadic representation in a Westminster system (2016)
Journal Article
Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2017). Dyadic representation in a Westminster system. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 42(2), 235-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12148

Is policy representation in contemporary Westminster systems solely a function of programmatic national parties, or does the election of legislators via single-member districts result in MPs whose policy positions are individually responsive to publi... Read More about Dyadic representation in a Westminster system.

When Margaret Thatcher met the Chinese: UK’s SMEs policies in the 1980s and the case of See Woo Holdings (2016)
Journal Article
Cheung, G. C., & Gomez, E. T. (2016). When Margaret Thatcher met the Chinese: UK’s SMEs policies in the 1980s and the case of See Woo Holdings. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 8(3), 335-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeee-04-2015-0031

Purpose This paper attempts to examine the UK’s SMEs policies under Margaret Thatcher’s era in the 1980s, with a view to understand the success stories, historical development and the structures of Chinese family business through a case study of See... Read More about When Margaret Thatcher met the Chinese: UK’s SMEs policies in the 1980s and the case of See Woo Holdings.

Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization (2016)
Journal Article
Lau, R. R., Andersen, D. J., Ditonto, T. M., Kleinberg, M. S., & Redlawsk, D. P. (2017). Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization. Political Behavior, 39(1), 231-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-016-9354-8

This paper examines the effects of our modern media environment on affective polarization. We conducted an experiment during the last month of the 2012 presidential election varying both the choice of media sources available about the major president... Read More about Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization.

"Two-and-a-half Ways of Thinking about the European Union" (2016)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2016). "Two-and-a-half Ways of Thinking about the European Union". Politique européenne, 53(3), 28-37. https://doi.org/10.3917/poeu.053.0028

This article argues that the sui generis theory is a ‘negative’ and ‘unhistorical’ theory. It lacks explanatory value for it is based on a conceptual tautology (Hay, 1966, 37): the European Union is… . what it is; and it is not.… what it is not! Seco... Read More about "Two-and-a-half Ways of Thinking about the European Union".

Should We Tolerate Benevolent Absolutisms? (2016)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2016). Should We Tolerate Benevolent Absolutisms?. Social Theory and Practice, 42(3), 525-554. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201642315

In this paper, I argue that the real problem with Rawls’s view of international toleration is that, properly understood, it seems not too inclusive, but not inclusive enough. I examine the standing of what Rawls calls “benevolent absolutisms.” Accord... Read More about Should We Tolerate Benevolent Absolutisms?.