SPS: Call for Themed Section Proposals
Social Policy and Society published a uniquely structured themed section in each issue which is designed to offer an overview of a particular policy-relevant theme.…
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Unlocking Literacy on World Book Day
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
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Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal
In 2005, pharmacies in Greece and Portugal enjoyed some of the highest regulatory protections from competition in the EU. Fifteen-plus years later, Greek pharmacies are still highly protected, while Portuguese pharmacies have had to undergo several bouts of liberalization.…
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Pastoral Criticism, Structural Collaboration
The Roman Catholic Church has, in most historical and theological analyses, had a rather hostile relationship to liberal modernity, despite the fact that the church helped to produce the modern world and the thought patterns that continue to govern it.
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Conversations with Authors: Send Back the Bloodstained Money
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Emma Saunders-Hastings about her recent APSR article, “‘Send Back the Bloodstained Money’: Frederick Douglass on Tainted Gifts.”…
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Conversations with Authors: The Politics of the Mundane
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Roberto Carlos about his recent APSR article, “The Politics of the Mundane.”…
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Pride amid Prejudice
In this post, Phillip Ayoub (PA), Douglas Page (DP), and Sam Whitt (SW) discuss their APSR article, “Pride amid Prejudice: The Influence of LGBT+ Activism in a Socially Conservative Society.”…
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The European Super League should make all sports pause for thought
The proposed European Super League for football might have stalled at its inception but it is unlikely to be the last we hear of the idea, in this or any other sport.…
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Government pledge fulfillment on immigration (“How Party Platforms on Immigration Become Policy”)
Do governing parties follow through on their campaign promises? Representative democracy requires that there are policy linkages between citizens and policies ultimately enacted by their governments.…
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What happens to fundraising when the neediest are also the most stigmatized?
In a recent article in the APSR, Katerina Linos, Laura Jákli, and Melissa Carlson partnered with a Greek NGO to conduct a cutting edge text message donation experiment.…
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How can the Black Lives Matter riots be justified, whereas the “Stop the Steal” riot is not?
This post first appeared on Jonathan Havercroft’s blog in January 2021. During the middle of the Stop the Steal riot on Wednesday, some commentators on social media argued that this showed how those who defended Black Lives Matter riots in the summer were wrong.…
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Children’s fingers point to mothers’ income level and diseases that begin in the womb
Low-income mothers may feminize their children in the womb by adjusting their hormones, whereas high-income mothers may masculinize their children, a major study based on finger length, led by a Swansea University expert, has found.…
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Conversations with Authors: The #BlackLivesMatter Movement and Identity Frames
For this post, we asked Dr. Jamil Scott to speak with Dr. Tabitha Bonilla and Dr. Alvin Tillery about their APSR article, “Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?…
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Conversations with Authors: Group Specific Measures and Novel Designs to Mitigate Gender-Based Violence in India
Once again, a brutal rape case that occurred in India in September 2020 has captured headlines and stunned the world. In Hathra, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit (an oppressed caste), woman was gang-raped by several dominant caste men; she succumbed to her injuries two weeks after the attack.…
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Memory, Mind & Media, a new Gold Open Access journal for 2022
Cambridge University Press is excited to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed, Gold Open Access journal for 2022. Memory, Mind & Media will be an agenda-setting interdisciplinary journal that explores the impact of media and technology on human, social and cultural remembering and forgetting.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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APSR Editorial Report – Fall 2020
Prior to the beginning of our tenure, we set out a vision statement for the APSR revolving around six principles. One of these principles is editorial transparency, specifically as it refers to sharing with our community information about our editorial workflow and characteristics of our authors, reviewers, and readership during our tenure.…
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The Paradox of Prevention in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Drawing upon her article in the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Laura J. Shepherd explores ‘The Paradox of Prevention in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’.…
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The Decentralization of Death?
When 43 students disappeared in the Mexican city Iguala in September 2014 during an attack of a joint group made up of local mafia and municipal police forces, a public outcry plunged the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto into crisis and decisively contributed to the defeat of his PRI party in the presidential elections.…
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Implementing New Norms for Research with Human Participants
**updated August 28, 2020** Elections for judges in the US don’t usually attract much controversy or attention, but the 2014 race for seats on the Montana Supreme Court was an exception.…
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Belarus: A Glimmer of Hope?
For decades, external observers have dismissed Belarus as a country with a weak or contested national identity and an underdeveloped civil society.…
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Europeanization on Demand: The EU Cybersecurity Certification Regime Between Market Integration and Core State Powers [1997-2019]
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
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Women, Peace and Security After Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’
Drawing upon their article in vol.5, no.2 of the European Journal of International Security, Aiko Holvikivi and Audrey Reeves explore how the Women, Peace and Security agenda has broadened to make space for women in conflict zones and also for refugee women in Europe’s borderlands.…
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Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Diversity and Inclusion
This summer has seen mobilization on an unprecedented scale, as people have taken to the streets to demand action against police violence and systemic anti-Black racism.…
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5 books to begin exploring Higher Education from Cambridge University Press
On June 30th the Higher Education website initially launched with a small selection of 80 online textbooks, with more titles due to be added throughout the following months.…
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COVID-19 Meets Cognitive Warfare
In this post, John J. Heslen expands on his article in a recent issue of Politics and the Life Sciences.…
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Reparations as Reconstruction, Not as Alibi
In this post Lawrie Balfour expands on her 2003 American Political Science Review article ‘Unreconstructed Democracy: W.E.B. DuBois and the Case for Reparations‘.…
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Why are we launching Higher Education from Cambridge University Press?
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
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Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing
In this post Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo expand upon their APSR article ‘Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing‘ which was recently published online.…
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Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
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A new era for the American Political Science Review
We are honored to officially start our editorship of the American Political Science Review. We do so with great excitement, but also with some solemnity.…
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The pitfalls of video calls (and how to avoid them like a pro)
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
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The regional politics of austerity after the Great Recession: What lessons can we learn from Italy and Spain?
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
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Lecturing in Lockdown: advice from our Higher Education Panel
Many of us are discovering that working at home for a long stretch can be difficult. Staying productive and motivated is a challenge, and it is not always easy to find a routine to keep things running smoothly.…
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Threat, Prejudice, and White Americans’ Attitudes toward Immigration and Syrian Refugee Resettlement
On January 27, 2017, one week after his inauguration, President Trump signed the “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” executive order which indefinitely suspends the resettlement of Syrian refugees, temporarily bans people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S.…
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Latinos and American Catholicism: Examining Service Provision Amidst Demographic Change
The hashtag #primariessowhite has been trending in reference to the all-white, mostly male candidate pool for the Democratic presidential nomination. Little discussed is the fact that the demographics of the potential candidates is the result of institutional processes and procedures that artificially inflate the importance of white, middle class voters and suppress the political influence of racial and ethnic minorities by making harder for candidates of color to secure nominations and win offices.…
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Relationality: A Richly Different Lens for Analyzing Policy
Policy is often depicted as prescription –a set of rules by which services and functions are carried out in the public sphere.…
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Unpacking the Political Implications of Latinx Interstate Migration
Among the many narratives about political ramifications of racial and ethnic demographic change in the United States over the last several decades, the potential of Latinx population growth to shift the nature of politics in the states, and even the calculus of Presidential campaigns, gained prominence as Latinx population growth seemed concentrated in what were long considered Republican strongholds.…
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Partisan Learning or Racial Learning? An Analysis of Public Opinion on Sanctuary Policies in CA and TX
The accidental shooting of Kathryn Steinle in 2015 by Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant, in San Francisco ignited a long-dormant debate on sanctuary cities.…
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The strings of the ‘golden straightjacket’: How sovereign credit ratings constrain democratic choice in developing and developed countries
In the past three decades, credit rating agencies have been in the limelight on more than one occasion, and not in a good way.…
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The “Dreamers” Are Just As Politically Active as Native-Born Population
Are immigrants in the U.S. politically active? Do they vote, engage in political campaigns, and participate in protests as frequently as the native-born population?…
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No Safe Space: Neoliberalism and the Production of Violence in the Lives of Central American Migrants
Central American migration is not a new phenomenon. While the contexts causing people to leave the region, primarily the Northern Triangle, have changed over time, they remain interconnected in that the historical “push factors” for migration out of Central America laid the foundations for the migratory flows we are seeing now.…
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The Case for Illegal Immigration
On 4th February Donald Trump delivered what may be his last State of the Union. He is facing a tough election later in the year and it comes as no surprise that his address was chock full of themes to get his base frothing at the mouth, among which was illegal immigration.…
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Darwin’s Bureaucrat: An Evolutionary Understanding of Bureaucratic Behavior
Historically much of the literature on bureaucratic behavior seeks to better understand how bureaucrats will use their discretionary power and information advantages to make decisions.…
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Does gambling belong in the category of morality policy?
Morality policies involve a controversial question of first principles or core values. Does gambling belong to this category of policies?
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Unequal benefits – diverging attitudes: How an equal expansion of childcare attenuates backlash against egalitarian gender norms
After decades of value change towards more egalitarian gender norms across most Western societies, the trend has now slowed, and even reversed in some countries.…
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What is new omnivorism?
One of the traditional assumptions of the debate over the ethical status of animals has long been that someone who is committed to reducing animal harm should not eat meat.…
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‘Enemies of the people’: Populism and the politics of (in)security
Referencing his FirstView article for the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Thorsten Wojczewski examines populism in contemporary politics and international relations.…
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Secrecy’s subjects: special operators in the US Shadow War
Referencing her article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Elspeth Van Veeren blogs on the power of secrecy in security discourses.…
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Reconceptualizing the politics of knowledge authority in post-/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects
Based on her FirstView article in the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Anna Danielsson reconceptualises the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions.…
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The link between genes, psychological traits, and political engagement
In this post, Aaron C. Weinschenk expands on his and his co-authors’ article in a recent issue of Politics and the Life Sciences.…
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Inside the DMZ: Exploring Militarized Masculinities Through Visual Autoethnography
Referencing his article in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Security, Professor Roland Bleiker examines how everyday aesthetic sensibilities can open up new ways of thinking about security dilemmas.…
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From ‘nice girls’ to ‘cool girls’: Teenage sexuality in mid-twentieth-century England
Drawing upon original oral histories and reflective testimonies collected as part of the Mass Observation Project, my article explores the ways in which teenage girls’ friendship groups and extended network of classmates and peers shaped their sexual lives.
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Is Extinction Rebellion the answer to our prayers?
Throngs of young (and not so young) people refusing to pretend that the human race is not in the most serious crisis it has ever faced.…
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Parasitological research in the molecular age
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is ‘Parasitological research in the molecular age‘ by Christian Selbach, Fátima Jorge, Eddy Dowle & Robert Poulin Technological developments often provide new tools for scientific advances.…
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Civic Lessons: Policing, Citizenship and Equality
The killing of Solomon Tekah, an 18 year-old Ethiopian-Israeli, shot to death by a police officer, led to mass demonstrations. Young Israelis of Ethiopian descent voiced their frustrations and anger with what they described as racism and police brutality.…
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Retirement brings sweeter dreams
Might work be interrupting a good night’s sleep? Modern societies are chronically sleep deprived. Many adults are sleeping less than the recommended 7–8 hours, in part due to the pressures of work.…
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How to manage a crisis in Iran?
Discussions of Iran’s modern history are discussion about crisis. Since the outset of 20th century up until today, Iran went through two revolutions, two wars, successful and failed coups, international sanctions, and profound cultural and social transformations.…
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It Could Happen to You: How Perceptions of Personal Risk Shape Support for Social Welfare Policy in the American States
Social welfare policies are among the most salient and potentially controversial policies today. In virtually all western democracies, public support for the social safety net has changed significantly over time.…
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Bargaining over maternity pay
The importance of maternity and childcare entitlements has been widely acknowledged by both scholars and policy-makers: evidence shows that well paid, non-transferable and flexible provisions with respect to maternity and child care-giving mitigate the “baby penalty” women face in the labour market and help in reducing gender inequalities both in the household and at the workplace.…
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Physical harm warning urges patients to use medicine correctly
Patients warned about the personal health risks of misusing medicine were almost twice as likely to heed the advice and take and it correctly, a new study has found.…
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What is the cost of police, really?
A recent study by RAND Corporation researchers examined the average amount of police spending on crimes for each state. Averaging the results across all states and considering where people live, the cost to respond to various crimes
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Africa’s future is urban
Africa’s future is urban. By 2050, the majority of Africans will live in cities, transforming its societies and economies. Yet very little is known about the impact this demographic shift will have on residents and political systems.…
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How Policy Instruments Matter in Higher Education Performance
According to the mainstream literature related to governance change in higher education (HE),Western European governments have redesigned governance systems to make HE institutions more accountable by turning to a similar policy formula (the so-called ‘steering at a distance’ governance arrangement).…
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Labor Strikes Are Costly, Difficult… and Effective
With teachers on strike in Los Angeles and airport workers on strike in Berlin, early 2019 already looks set to be a notable year for labor actions in Europe and the United States.…
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How Ideas are Replacing Identities in Nigeria’s Electoral Competition
The 2015 defeat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls was Nigeria’s first “electoral turnover,” giving us a new narrative for the decline of dominant parties.…
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How Bureaucratic Leadership Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and Affluent Citizens’ Incomes in the American States
Unified control of policymaking by a single political party is perhaps necessary, but not sufficient for observing policy outcomes consistent with majoritarian policy preferences.…
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More bang for your buck: tax compliance in the United States and Italy
Sven Steinmo states in his book Taxation and Democracy, “Governments need money. Modern Governments need lots of money.” This is no less true today than it was twenty-five years ago when he wrote it.…
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The dynamics of policy change in authoritarian countries
In democratic countries, actors inside and outside the state have various channels for expressing their concerns and influencing policy agendas. In contrast, in authoritarian countries, less inclusive institutions lead to different dynamics of policy change.…
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Do the 50 American States Give Voters What They Want on Health and Immigration?
The 50 American state governments have been faced with many questions related to healthcare and immigration in the past two decades.…
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Gender-Submission Gap and Women’s Underrepresentation in Political Science Journals
Women are running for U.S. public office in record numbers, offering hopes of seriously tackling the gender gap in political representation.…
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When less public participation may be better public participation
Currently, policymaking is torn between two demands. On the one hand, issues become increasingly complex, calling for the incorporation of expertise in the policymaking process and increasingly complex decision-making procedures.…
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Protecting Academic Freedom: Using the Past to Chart a Path Toward the Future
This blog accompanies the Forum on Academic Freedom published in History of Education Quarterly. In the past decade or so, there has been an uptick in assaults on academic freedom across the globe. …
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The Great Keyishian Case: lessons in academic freedom from the Cold War
When the History of Education Quarterly asked me to contribute to a symposium on academic freedom, I could hardly refuse. I had recently written a book about how anti-communist witch hunters in the late 1940s and 1950s attacked teachers and professors, and about the Supreme Court’s eventual (and much-belated) response in 1967–striking down a typical state loyalty law and announcing that academic freedom is a “a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.”…
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How the Social Determinants of Indigenous Health became policy reality for Australia’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan
Significant health inequities persist between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, resulting from the past and continuing impacts of colonisation and contemporary social, economic and cultural inequalities.…
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The Evolution of Human Trafficking Policy and Its Effect on Human Trafficking Attitudes
Despite a near unanimous agreement that human trafficking is a morally reprehensible practice, there is confusion around what qualifies as human trafficking in the United States.…
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Meet the New Owners of Corporate America
A seismic shift is going on in finance still largely unnoticed by the public. People and institutions are increasingly investing their money into index tracker funds instead of actively managed mutual funds.…
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Iran and the nuclear deal: the politics of procrastination
Over a decade ago I attended a meeting in London with senior Iranian foreign ministry officials discussing prospects for a resolution of the burgeoning crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme.…
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The Feminist Origins of the Midlife Crisis
This article tells the history of the midlife crisis, for the first time. The term “midlife crisis” conjures up the image of an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age.…
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Changes to employment network providers’ contracts significantly changes how these services engage with single mothers subject to welfare to work policies
Since the early 2000s successive Australian governments have required single parents with school age children who are in receipt of income support payments to at a minimum engage in some form of planning to return to paid work or part-time paid work or education/training.…
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Replication: Practical Advice for Authors and Journals
This post by R. Michael Alvarez originally appeared on PS:Now on April 10, 2018. Research transparency and replication are important issues today in the quantitative social sciences.…
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Whither EU and UK Social Policy Post-Brexit?
In an article initially drafted a year ago and now published in a themed section of Social Policy and Society, we attempt to assess the past and future development of EU and UK social policy in the context of Brexit.…
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“I may be getting my hair done but I don’t care too much how it looks”: Treading the path between displays of over- and under-investment in appearance.
Dr Rachel Heinrichsmeier from King’s College London reports on a practice used by older women in her research in a hair-salon.…
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EU Social and Gender Policy beyond Brexit
In the United Kingdom and across the European Union, Brexit continues to be the key social, political and economic issue of the day.…
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Race and Political News Coverage
My book, Framed: Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics, is wake-up call for those who think that race does not matter in Canada.…
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Does sanctioning of benefit claimants drive them to need help from food banks?
In 2013, the proportion of benefit claimants being sanctioned reached record levels. Over 6% of jobseekers were having their out-of-work benefit payments stopped each month for a minimum of four weeks, and many more were going without payment while their decisions were under appeal.…
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Grandparent Care: A Key Factor in Mothers’ Labour Force Participation in the UK
The contribution of unpaid work, often performed by women, is and has been largely unrecognised, a situation feminist scholars have long drawn to our attention.…
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Doing more with less in health care: a multi-method study of decommissioning in the English NHS
Irrespective of moral and political arguments, current fiscal restraints in the English National Health Service (NHS) make decommissioning apparently unavoidable. Decommissioning – that is the removal, relocation or replacement of treatments and services – is being pursued by health care planners in response to the need to balance budgets, but has also been advocated by exponents of evidence based medicine on quality grounds (Hurley, 2014; Malhotra et al, 2015).…
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Brexit and Devolution
Since the Brexit referendum the UK government has been criticised for failing to recognise the positions and concerns of the devolved governments.…
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Global Animal Law – an introduction to the symposium
In this post, Anne Peters gives us an overview of the Symposium on Global Animal Law: Animals Matter in International Law and International Law Matters for Animals that is now published open access by AJIL Unbound.…
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How to be successful on the academic job market
Now that the new academic year has arrived, many Ph.D. students will be going on the job market for the first time.…
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It’s Time for Active Learning in All Sociology Classrooms…
If you teach in a sociology program, you have no doubt heard of teaching through active learning. Most college instructors now know that students learn more and perform better when actively engaged in (and out) of the classroom (Bajak 2014, Killian and Bastas 2015).…
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Warning: the cost of Brexit could seriously damage your health service
Leaving the EU would free up more money for the NHS, according to Leave campaigners. This pledge has been all but disowned – and in any case, writes Joan Costa Font, Brexit will impose further costs on an already cash-strapped service. …
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A New Team for the Journal of Experimental Political Science
I am delighted to announce a new editorial team for JEPS, which will hit the ground running after APSA. We will have seven associate editors and a senior associate editor.…
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Counting the Cost of European Union Regulation, You Couldn’t Make It Up
The role of regulation in saving lives, enhancing public health and welfare, and protecting the environment rarely features in policy debates in the UK.…
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Brexit means higher immigration and more social spending
As many commentators have pointed out, the UK welfare state faces long-term structural problems in two main areas. Globalisation and technological changes demand that government directs attention to national competitiveness, and population ageing requires more spending on pensions, health and social care.…
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Brexit and Race Equality Policies
With Brexit negotiations underway, a key question is whether withdrawal from the EU will affect equality policies. The Fawcett Society has recently warned that Government ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will present ‘a real threat to our equality laws’ in so far as it risks ‘weakening of protections’.…
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Dealing with rejection: Advice from an editor
It happens to all academic researchers, all of the time. We have to deal with rejection – our papers get rejected for publication by journals.…
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Finding Feminisms – a special issue from CJPS / RCSP
In this post, the guest Editors of the latest 50th anniversary issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Fiona MacDonald, Tracey Raney, Cheryl N.…
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Why the UK Needs a Social Policy on Ageing
This article just published in JSP is a direct challenge to official and mainstream social policy orthodoxy on the issue of ageing which focuses on old age, not ageing, and assumes that later life is a natural period of decline. …
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