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Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation (2024)
Journal Article
Hu, W. Z. (in press). Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931241229445

As a promising Social Science Methodology, Structural/Mechanism Explanation (SME) retains the advantages of mechanism-based explanation (ME), particularly its focus on “identifying causal patterns from micro-level social phenomena.” It also acknowled... Read More about Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation.

Assemblies and the Courts (2024)
Book Chapter
Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2024). Assemblies and the Courts. In The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.26

To what extent is the protest trial a threat or an opportunity to protesters? This chapter argues that it is both. Trials potentially provide a site of resistance and the means for ongoing struggle and contestation, while simultaneously threatening t... Read More about Assemblies and the Courts.

Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, J., & Robertson, S. L. (in press). Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2302829

In this paper we ask: what does ‘the idea’ of the Chinese university mean at the current time, especially when the sector has been shaped by endogenous and exogenous globalising dynamics? We explore this question, drawing on cultural political econom... Read More about Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China.

Britain as a European nation state (2024)
Book Chapter
Parr, H. Britain as a European nation state. In Cambridge History of Modern Britain, 1900- the present. Cambridge University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Should we believe Rishi Sunak’s hint that the election will be in October? What the evidence tells us (2024)
Digital Artefact
Loomes, G. (2024). Should we believe Rishi Sunak’s hint that the election will be in October? What the evidence tells us. [Blog Style Article]

Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War (2024)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2024). Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War. Journal of Ethics, 28(1), 27–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-023-09467-0

Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate exodus of a speed and scale which we’ve never seen. While corporate withdrawal appears to have conside... Read More about Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War.