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How Do Voters Form Their Political Preferences? They Follow Their Leaders
A romantic notion of democracy depicts democratic governments as accountable to their citizens and acting in their citizens’ interests. Academic analyses of democratic decision-making support this view. Voters have preferences, and parties and candi…
Everything You Know About Fairies Is Wrong: Introducing Twilight of the Godlings
“In th’olde days of the king ArthourOf which that Britons speaken great honour,All was this land full fill’d with faerie …” In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath reflects that fairies used to be plentiful in …
What is the art of the reprint?
For one of the first of the over 250 drawings that Rockwell Kent made to illustrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) in 1930, he propped Ishmael up on his elbows, lying on his belly on a grassy hill. This is the famous opening scene of the novel, …
State Legislative Resistance
My latest book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance demonstrates how states played a crucial role from the beginning of the republic in assessing the equilibrium of federalism within the American constitutional orde…
The Law and Practice of Global ICT Standardization
“Home is where the Wi-Fi connects automatically.” There is some truth in this slightly stereotyped statement: our daily life can no longer be imagined without digital connectivity, and no economic activity would take place without devices and …
Unlocking the Groove: Our Journey to Uncovering the Transformative Power of Musicfor Older Adults
We are excited to present our groundbreaking research on the quality of life of older adult clients of U.S. senior centers through the lens of music participation. The post Unlocking the Groove: Our Journey to Uncovering the Transformative Power of Musicf…
Something’s fishy in medieval Europe
If you cast your line in the right places medieval Europe is full of fish. “A surfeit of lampreys” reportedly killed England’s King Henry I in 1135, and Pope Martin IV (d1285) expired after consuming too many eels from Lake Trasimeno. Hi…
How Ancient Civilizations Were Burdened by their Parasites
Evidence for parasites brought together in the book Parasites in Past Civilizations and Their Impact upon Health includes studies of ancient mummies, skeletons, toilets, coprolites, hair combs, and other archaeological materials. The different kinds of pa…
Was anticolonial activism global?
African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Ismay Milford ‘The trick of the colonist is to isolate colonial territories from the rest of the world’. This …
Putting Alison back in the picture
The photograph above, taken in May 1941, shows meadows near Bemerton, Wiltshire (UK), with a girl named Alison sitting on a plank bridge across a stream. Several features would immediately catch the eye of a landscape historian working in the empiric…
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Timing of cestode infection in threespine stickleback: Exploring variation among populations
When do parasites infect hosts? And does timing differ between separate host populations? Answers to these questions are fundamental to our understanding of host-parasite interactions and co-evolution. Yet often these aspects of host-parasite interactions…
Protected Urea – Protecting the Environment and Delivering for Farmers
The paper “Can a urease inhibitor improve the efficacy of nitrogen use under perennial ryegrass temperate grazing conditions? A multi-site study of N use in a temperate climate“, published in The Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chose…
What Makes a Good Review
What makes a good review? Some advice to potential reviewers about what we hope your review will accomplish for our authors and for us.
Conversations with Authors: Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Florian Foos and Daniel Bischof about their article, “Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England.”…
Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Global Urban History
Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History reinterprets the history of the world’s cities by combining the approaches of urban and global history.…
Five Changes I would like to see – in research
This blog post by Dr Tara Van Ho is the first in a series of blog pieces by describing a change or changes the writer would like to see in any part of the field of business and human rights. …
Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
We are grateful to you for sharing in our celebration of this Element series. Why write on this topic? Because we are excited about the series and what it represents to scholars.
Celebrating the publication of our 1000th Element
We are celebrating publishing the 1000th Element and I want to share why this is such an important milestone for us at Cambridge University Press.
Comments on Parasitology paper – Effects of parasitic freshwater mussels on their host fishes: a review
Starting my PhD in 2020 on the conservation of Swedish parasitic freshwater mussels (Order: Unionida), I initially noted a lack of effort put into the study of what these mussels actually do to their hosts. If our goal is to increase the number of these m…
A life in engineering: Prof. Jan Maciejowski talks to the Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC)
In the hot seat, Jan Maciejowski, InstMC Past President and Professor Emeritus of Control Engineering, University of Cambridge (now retired), gives us an insight into his career in engineering.
