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Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2021). Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom. Archiwum Medycyny Sądowej i Kryminologii, 39-61. https://doi.org/10.7420/AK2021.33

The pandemic presented a uniquely unrestricted bonanza in many countries for opportunistic profitmaking at the public expense. In the United Kingdom, this took the form of collusion between senior political figures and business associates in purchasi... Read More about Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom.

When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257757

Context: The Covid-19 pandemic hit the developed world differentially due to accidental factors, and countries had to respond rapidly within existing resources, structures, and processes to manage totally new health challenges. This study aimed to id... Read More about When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy.

Political Connections and Seasoned Equity Offerings (2021)
Journal Article
Nnadi, M. I., Sorwar, G., Eskandari, R., & Chizema, A. (2021). Political Connections and Seasoned Equity Offerings. Journal of Banking and Finance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106312

This study examines the impact of political connections on seasoned equity offerings. Using seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) from 2001 to 2018 in the USA, we find that politically connected issuers enjoy a lower cost of seasoned equity issuance than... Read More about Political Connections and Seasoned Equity Offerings.

Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities. Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1959123

As climate movements are growing around the world, so too is a postapocalyptic form of environmentalism. While apocalyptic environmentalism warns of future catastrophe in case of inaction, its postapocalyptic sibling assumes that catastrophe is alrea... Read More about Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities.

Making Sense of Salafism: Theological foundations, ideological iterations, and political manifestations (2021)
Book Chapter
Sheikh. (2021). Making Sense of Salafism: Theological foundations, ideological iterations, and political manifestations. In The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Politics and Ideology. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816230-16

"This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism - in a variety of contexts, regions and countries.

A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee (2021)
Journal Article
Rigby, M. J. (2022). A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee. Child: Care, Health and Development, 48(1), 170-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12907

While children in general are usually seen as a societal priority, many children are disadvantaged by marginalization, with adverse effects on health and development. Following feasibility studies, the European Commission has now adopted a formal Chi... Read More about A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee.

After the European Global Vaccination Summit-The need for practical policies to boost vaccination delivery to children in Europe. (2021)
Journal Article
Rigby, M. J. (2021). After the European Global Vaccination Summit-The need for practical policies to boost vaccination delivery to children in Europe. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(6), 1998-2010. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3282

BACKGROUND: Low childhood vaccination rates in Europe continue to cause concern and have triggered much policy study. However, regarding children, making immunisation a stand-alone issue cuts across integrated child health services. Most initiatives,... Read More about After the European Global Vaccination Summit-The need for practical policies to boost vaccination delivery to children in Europe..

'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership (2021)
Journal Article
Paton, C. (2021). 'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(6), 1972-1989. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3264

BACKGROUND: The UK government's reckless and incompetent response to Covid-19 has produced an outcome which is amongst the worst in the world, and arguably the worst in terms of deaths per 100,000 population of major countries (especially when one me... Read More about 'We did everything we could': An account of toxic leadership.

Governing in Conflict or Cooperation? Trump’s Populism and the Republican Party (2021)
Journal Article
Herbert, J. (2021). Governing in Conflict or Cooperation? Trump’s Populism and the Republican Party

Trump’s election in 2016 generated an unusual political alignment, shackling a fervently populist presidency to an establishment political party in Congress. Trump appears to have emerged victorious from this conflict, as elected Republicans appeared... Read More about Governing in Conflict or Cooperation? Trump’s Populism and the Republican Party.

The New Vanguardists: an analysis of Militant Tendency and its involvement in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s (2021)
Thesis
Ferguson, J. The New Vanguardists: an analysis of Militant Tendency and its involvement in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/420351

The case study describes and analyses the taking of power by a Trotskyist entryist group in the Liverpool Labour Party and subsequently Liverpool City Council in the 1980s. The case study looks at the model of a vanguardist party and how it takes pow... Read More about The New Vanguardists: an analysis of Militant Tendency and its involvement in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s.

Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project (2021)
Book Chapter
Baiasu. (2021). Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project. In Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66857-0_6

An easily recognizable feature of Sartre’s phenomenological existentialism is his conception of freedom. According to a popular interpretation, we are absolutely free, not only from factual constraints, but also free to create and pursue our own valu... Read More about Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project.

Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny (2021)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2021). Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny. Philosophical Psychology, 34(7), 1011-1046. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2021.1937591

Generative grammarians typically advocate for a rationalist understanding of language acquisition, according to which the structure of a developed language faculty reflects innate guidance rather than environmental influence. This proposal is develop... Read More about Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny.

Theorising the meso-level space of school ethos and cultural pedagogy in relation to securitisation policy. (2021)
Journal Article
Barnard. (2021). Theorising the meso-level space of school ethos and cultural pedagogy in relation to securitisation policy. Journal of Education Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2021.1939423

This paper looks empirically at how the UK’s policy of securitisation within education impacts on the meso-level space of cultural ethos and pedagogy within two majority non-white secondary schools and one majority non-white further education college... Read More about Theorising the meso-level space of school ethos and cultural pedagogy in relation to securitisation policy..

Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6. (2021)
Journal Article
Higson-Bliss, L. (2021). Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6. Legal Studies, 1 - 4. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.9

<jats:p>The UK is currently experiencing what can only be described as a political crisis. As faith in politics declines amongst citizens, there is an increasing trend to turn to the courts for answers – this is the thesis of Jonathan Sumption's <jat... Read More about Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6..

After the Age of Wreckers and Exterminators? Confronting the limits of eradication and entanglement as modes of engaging with harmful beings (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). After the Age of Wreckers and Exterminators? Confronting the limits of eradication and entanglement as modes of engaging with harmful beings. Cultural Politics, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797501

This essay delineates the material and conceptual limitations of two prominent ways of figuring the relationship between humans and harmful beings: narratives of eradication and entanglement, respectively. Ecological concern about the legacies of 20t... Read More about After the Age of Wreckers and Exterminators? Confronting the limits of eradication and entanglement as modes of engaging with harmful beings.

Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations (2021)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M., & Zevnik, A. Z. (2021). Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0300

Critical and poststructural theories were introduced to global politics in early to mid-1990s. Since then there has been a proliferation of critical thinking in global politics with Derridean and Foucauldian approaches being the most popular. While p... Read More about Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations.