Longitudinal qualitative inquiry from a social gerontological perspective can offer unique insights into older adults’ wellbeing and home care service trajectories. This temporal case study of 12 older home care clients analysed 136 interviews over three time points with 53 home care network actors in Manitoba and Nova Scotia. Many clients and families grappled with service changes almost daily, even if the level or type of service appeared officially stable. The pandemic added further disruption, shaping clients’ lives, wellbeing, and relationships, as well as their access to and use of service. Notably, changes in clients’ wellbeing and needs for help were not necessarily straightforward nor always apparent to case coordinators, especially when these were tied to social, emotional, or relational wellbeing, or to clients’ living arrangements, housing, family, and community integration. Findings can enhance theorizing of change for older adults receiving home care and guide equity-informed policy and practice.

Do economic sanctions negatively affect democracy and human rights in targeted countries? Although often intended to improve these outcomes, their record of doing so has historically been mixed at best. Most canonical studies cover the 1980s–1990s, but sanctions practice has since undergone major innovations following debates on humanitarian harm. Given this move toward ‘targeted’ sanctions, it stands to reason that sanctions may today be achieving their intended purposes. I take up policy and methodological innovations to re-examine the effects of Western sanctions seeking to improve democracy and human rights from 1990 to 2021. I find that negative effects persist, offering an important update to the empirical literature. Beyond this contribution, I present a template for replicating and extending country-year research in international relations (IR).

We extend a classical model of continuous opinion formation to explicitly include an age-structured population. We begin by considering a stochastic differential equation model which incorporates ageing dynamics and birth/death processes, in a bounded confidence type opinion formation model. We then derive and analyse the corresponding mean field partial differential equation and compare the complex dynamics on the microscopic and macroscopic levels using numerical simulations. We rigorously prove the existence of stationary states in the mean field model, but also demonstrate that these stationary states are not necessarily unique. Finally, we establish connections between this and other existing models in various scenarios.

In multiparty systems, parties signal conflict through communication, yet standard approaches to measuring partisan conflict in communication consider only the verbal dimension. We expand the study of partisan conflict to the nonverbal dimension by developing a measure of conflict signaling based on variation in a speaker’s expressed emotional arousal, as indicated by changes in vocal pitch. We demonstrate our approach using comprehensive audio data from parliamentary debates in Denmark spanning more than two decades. We find that arousal reflects prevailing patterns of partisan polarization and predicts subsequent legislative behavior. Moreover, we show that consistent with a strategic model of behavior, arousal tracks the electoral and policy incentives faced by legislators. All results persist when we account for the verbal content of speech. By documenting a novel dimension of elite communication of partisan conflict and providing evidence for the strategic use of nonverbal signals, our findings deepen our understanding of the nature of elite partisan communication.