As policy debates are increasingly moving towards resilience, critical scholars have discussed whether this turn reveals something deeper about shifts in techniques of government. In the field of security, commentators have observed a ‘marked distancing from centrally coordinated response organized via hierarchical chains of command and control designed to combat known threats and enemies’, in […]
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Pirate parties appear to be on the decline. These parties were successful in winning representation in Sweden (European Parliament) and in Germany (State Parliaments) but have since disappeared from these parliaments. Yet recently, they have recently won seats in national parliaments in Iceland, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg. Given the great differences in electoral results […]
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8 new journal articles from our Special Issue on Irregular Migration and the Politics of Agency.
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The Politics Prize was announced at the 2017 Political Studies Association Conference
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How to understand complex inequalities and power changes in diverse societies? Intersectionality is the answer.
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Turnout rates are in decline across advanced democracies. We also know lower educated citizens turn out less. Does this imply educational inequalities in who turns out to vote and who does not are increasing?
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Every Year Politics awards a prize for the best article published in the previous year's print volume. The nominations for the best article published in 2016 are...
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What role do sanctuary movements play in a world where states make it harder for irregular migrants to live as human beings?
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The November 2016 contains three Special Sections: Intersectionality in European political science research, Resurrecting IR Theory and Teaching Africa and International Studies
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Contacting Politics All correspondence regarding submissions to Politics as well as general editorial enquiries should be sent to politicsjournal@ncl.ac.uk All correspondence regarding politicsblog.ac.uk and/or Politics digital media channels should be sent to editors@politicsblog.ac.uk Editors Martin Coward, The University of Manchester, UK Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University, UK Associate Editors Amanda Chisholm, Newcastle University, UK Emily Clough, Newcastle […]
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