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Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa: all pain, no gain (2018)
Journal Article
Harrison, G. (2019). Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa: all pain, no gain. Globalizations, 16(3), 274-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2018.1502491

As a region of the world capitalist political economy, Africa has been the epitome of neoliberalism as a universal project to remake societies in its image. In Africa, the neoliberal project encountered a region already ensconced in state-forms that... Read More about Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa: all pain, no gain.

Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments (2018)
Journal Article
Andersen, D. J., & Ditonto, T. (2018). Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments. Political Analysis, 26(4), 379-398. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2018.21

This article examines how the presentation of information during a laboratory experiment can alter a study’s findings. We compare four possible ways to present information about hypothetical candidates in a laboratory experiment. First, we manipulate... Read More about Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments.

Better than before : comparing Moscow’s Cold War and Putin era policies toward Arabia and the Gulf (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Katz, M. N. (2018). Better than before : comparing Moscow’s Cold War and Putin era policies toward Arabia and the Gulf

In comparing Soviet era and Putin era foreign policies toward Arabia and the Gulf, a striking similarity emerges. In both eras, Moscow’s foreign policy has been characterized not so much by a grand design but by an opportunistic approach that seeks t... Read More about Better than before : comparing Moscow’s Cold War and Putin era policies toward Arabia and the Gulf.

When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement (2018)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2018). When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement. The Middle East journal, 72(3), 365-384. https://doi.org/10.3751/72.3.11

This article is a case study of how Tunisia's Islamist party, the Ennahda Movement, responded to new political opportunities that opened up after the 2011 Arab uprisings. It argues that Ennahda chose to make a hard-to-reverse commitment to politiciza... Read More about When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement.

The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’ (2018)
Journal Article
Braun, C. N. (2018). The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’. Journal of International Political Theory, 14(3), 349-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088218786306

Contemporary just war thinking has mostly been split into two competing camps, namely, Michael Walzer’s approach and its revisionist critics. While Walzerians employ a casuistical method, most revisionists resort to analytical philosophy’s reflective... Read More about The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’.

Could rainfall have swung the result of the Brexit referendum? (2018)
Journal Article
Leslie, P. A., & Arı, B. (2018). Could rainfall have swung the result of the Brexit referendum?. Political Geography, 65, 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.05.009

Previous studies have shown that weather conditions may affect voter turnout, sometimes in ways that could plausibly swing the result of a close election. On the day of Britain's EU Referendum, the presence of torrential rain in the South-East of Eng... Read More about Could rainfall have swung the result of the Brexit referendum?.

Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations (2018)
Journal Article
Holley, C., Shearing, C., Harrington, C., Kennedy, A., & Mutongwizo, T. (2018). Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 14, 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101317-030945

This article analyzes the implications of the Anthropocene for the governance of security. Drawing on environmental law, green criminology, and international relations, the article examines the development of environmental security scholarship over r... Read More about Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations.

From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University (2018)
Journal Article
Martelli, J., & Arı, B. (2018). From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University. India Review, 17(3), 263-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2018.1473319

Several recent studies propose that political choices of Indian youth can hardly be distinguished from those of their parents in many respects. Contrary to this well-established understanding, this article shows that when set apart from the spheres o... Read More about From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University.

Two’s a Crowd: Women Candidates in Concurrent Elections (2018)
Journal Article
Ditonto, T., & Andersen, D. J. (2018). Two’s a Crowd: Women Candidates in Concurrent Elections. Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 39(3), 257-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477x.2018.1475790

Most research on evaluations of women candidates considers single elections in isolation. Using two Dynamic Process Tracing experiments, this article examines whether voters alter their evaluations of women candidates, as well as their willingness to... Read More about Two’s a Crowd: Women Candidates in Concurrent Elections.

Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia (2018)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J. (2018). Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia. International Political Sociology, 12(3), 256-273. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/oly010

Development promotes bureaucratization, and bureaucracies are based on knowledge and produce knowledge. Failures of development are therefore regularly attributed to a lack of knowledge. The article argues that the quest for knowledge is embedded in... Read More about Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia.