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Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police (2007)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2007). Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police. International Peacekeeping, 14(2), 282-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533310601151055

Based on research undertaken in southern Serbia following the introduction of multi-ethnic policing units, this article examines the pluralist intentions behind attempts to democratize security through community-oriented policing (COP). It details th... Read More about Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police.

What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia (2007)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. (2007). What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia. Policing and Society, 17(1), 1 -20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460601124106

Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Miloševic's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in... Read More about What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia.

Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity. Environmental Politics, 860 -880. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937306

The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between majority (South) and minority (North) world environmental groups by focusing on one of the largest transnational environmental organisations: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI):1... Read More about Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity.

Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality. Environmental Politics, 881 -892. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937504

A consistent thread weaves through all the articles in this edition. Each author, in some fashion, reflects upon the dual concepts of a ‘global green public sphere’ and the ‘global governance state’, as they intersect with the politics of environment... Read More about Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality.

The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse (2007)
Journal Article
Biggs, S., Phillipson, C., Money, A., & Leach, R. (2007). The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse. Journal of Social Work Practice, 20(3), 239 - 250. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650530600931708

Through a critical engagement with policy trends, we ask how shifts in ideologies of ageing might influence the possibilities available to adults as they grow older. Of particular interest are the implications for how people are being encouraged to t... Read More about The Age-shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse.

The Europeanization of National Political Parties (Ed. by E. Carter, R. Ladrech) (2006)
Book
Carter, E., & Ladrech, R. (2007). T. Poguntke, N. Aylott, E. Carter, R. Ladrech, & K. R. Luther (Eds.). The Europeanization of National Political Parties (Ed. by E. Carter, R. Ladrech). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958

This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance. The Europeanization of National Political Parties is the first empirical study to examine the effects of the Europe... Read More about The Europeanization of National Political Parties (Ed. by E. Carter, R. Ladrech).

Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties (2006)
Book Chapter
Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R., & Richard Luther, K. (2006). Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958-9

The question of the United Kingdom’s (UK) relationship with, and role in, the European Union (EU) has been one of the most divisive and damaging issues in British party politics since the end of the Second World War. Furthermore, although it is perha... Read More about Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties.

European integration and internal party dynamics (2006)
Book Chapter
Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R., & Richard Luther, K. (2006). European integration and internal party dynamics. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958-7

Academic research on ‘Europeanization’ has become a veritable growth industry over the last decade. The number of works that have addressed this theme in one form or another has soared (see Featherstone 2003; Mair 2004) and the numerous doctoral stud... Read More about European integration and internal party dynamics.

Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms (2006)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2006). Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms. Environmental Politics, 697 -712. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937132

This introduction considers three themes that recur across the various contributions to this collection. The first is the nature of borders and how these have been affected by the increase in transnational collective action and the growth in the powe... Read More about Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms.

Political opportunity structures and right‐wing extremist party success (2006)
Journal Article
ARZHEIMER, K., & CARTER, E. (2006). Political opportunity structures and right‐wing extremist party success. European Journal of Political Research, 45(3), 419-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2006.00304.x

West European right-wing extremist parties have received a great deal of attention over the past two decades due to their electoral success. What has received less coverage, however, is the fact that these parties have not enjoyed a consistent level... Read More about Political opportunity structures and right‐wing extremist party success.

Waging terror: The geopolitics of the real (2006)
Journal Article
H. Jones, S., & B. Clarke, D. (2006). Waging terror: The geopolitics of the real. Political Geography, 25(3), 298-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.12.009

Against the background of the broad intellectual response to the events of 9/11, the paper examines the complicity of the media in the West's so-called War on Terror. Rejecting erroneous conceptions of a conspiratorial state control of the media (and... Read More about Waging terror: The geopolitics of the real.

Practice development and action learning (2006)
Journal Article
(2006). Practice development and action learning. Practice Development in Health Care, 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1002/pdh.28

This article seeks to explore the potentially fruitful connections between practice development and the approach to personal and organizational development known as action learning. Action learning is defined as: a method for individual and organizat... Read More about Practice development and action learning.

A Feeling for History? Bakhtin and `The Problem of Great Time' (2006)
Journal Article
(2006). A Feeling for History? Bakhtin and `The Problem of Great Time'

‘Great time’ has usually been seen as a ‘late term’ of Bakhtin’s. However, although it occurs most frequently in works written in the 1960s and 1970s, there is one known instance of its use in the 1940s. This confirms the close association between th... Read More about A Feeling for History? Bakhtin and `The Problem of Great Time'.

Editors' introduction (2005)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2005). Editors' introduction. In R.G. Collingwood: An Essay on Philosophical Method (13 -117)

Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1 (2004)
Journal Article
Carter, E. (2004). Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1. Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy, 40(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344890408523252

Focusing on the West European parties of the extreme right, this article considers the validity of the claim that proportional electoral systems promote political extremism. After a systematic, empirical examination of the relationship between electo... Read More about Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1.

Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK (2004)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2004). Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK. Social Movement Studies, 199 - 220. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474283042000266128

Ecological sabotage (ecotage) has been a feature of the more radical parts of the environmental movement in the Western world for several decades. While it may be perceived as being the preserve of underground cells of 'eco-terrorists', in the UK tho... Read More about Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK.

Changing Party Access to Elections (2003)
Book Chapter
Bowler, S., Carter, E., & Farrell, D. M. (2003). Changing Party Access to Elections. In Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (81-112). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199264996.003.0005

This chapter examines whether it has become easier or more difficult for political parties to participate in elections. It does this by comparing the electoral systems and the wider electoral laws (including those governing ballot access, media acces... Read More about Changing Party Access to Elections.