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12 Sep 2023 • Book
Parliaments and Government Termination: A New Perspective on Parliamentary Democracies
AbstractThis book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive–legislative relations, claiming that the way in which the governments may be challenged or dismissed has far greater impact than previously understood. The core feature of a parliamentary system is not that governments tend to emerge from the legislatures in some way or
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Sep 2023 • Book Chapter • East-West Asia Relations in the 21st Century
Fluid Triangle: Shifting Cold War Alliances between Beijing, Moscow, and Washington in the Middle East
AbstractThis chapter deals with the shifting Cold War alliances between Beijing, Moscow, and Washington in the Middle East. Nearly three decades after the end of the Cold War, Beijing appears to have learned an important lesson with regard to its international behavior. In the Cold War period, China's foreign policy and international behavior were “non-Chinese” in the sense
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Sep 2023 • Book
Post-Truth American Politics: False Stories and Current Crises
AbstractDavid Ricci has written two books on 'political stories,' providing the foundations for Post-Truth Democracy. Yet the present book is arguably the most important yet. The author writes that we need stories to make our way in the world. But many stories, say from identity politics, are necessarily false because they are simplifications of some larger reality. However
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24 Aug 2023 • Book
Bread and Autocracy: Food, Politics, and Security in Putin's Russia
AbstractFood has been crucial to the functioning and survival of governments and regimes since the emergence of early states. Only in a few countries is the connection between food and politics as pronounced as in Russia. Virtually every significant development in Russian and Soviet history since the 1917 Revolution has been either directly driven by or closely associated with
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20 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Suárez’s Republic of Demons : Could There Be an Obligation to Do Evil?
AbstractSuárez was probably the first theologian to propose a political understanding of the order of subordination among the demons. According to Aquinas, this subordination immediately reflects the natural differences in perfection between the demons. Suárez charged that a natural-based order of demonic subordination could not ground the capacity of the demons’ ruler—Lucifer—to
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16 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Conflict Resolution
Legacies of survival: Historical violence and ethnic minority behavior
AbstractHow is the electoral behavior of minorities shaped by past violence? Recent studies found that displacement increases hostility between perpetrators and displaced individuals, but there has been paltry research on members of surviving communities. We argue that the latter exhibit the opposite pattern because of their different condition. Violence will cause cross-generational
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14 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Social Sciences
Polarization and Moral Threat: Insights from Systemist Analysis
AbstractThis article presents a theoretical framework for understanding the social consequences of polarization-driven behaviors by conceptualizing them as a moral threat to the self. Our argument employs systemist graphics, illustrating key connections and patterns from two distinct scientific works. First, an analysis of polarization-driven behavior, which reveals Americans’
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13 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Comparative Political Studies
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement
AbstractHow does living on property taken from others affect voting behavior? Recent studies have argued that benefiting from historical violence leads to support for the far right. We extend this fledgling literature with new theoretical insights and original data from Israel, using case-specific variation in the nature of displacement to uncover heterogeneous treatment effects
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3 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Policy Sciences
Symposium: Affect and emotions in policy dynamics
AbstractThis symposium tackles pressing and intellectually challenging questions bringing research on affect and emotions in the examination of policy dynamics. What does it mean to have affective processes intertwined in policymaking processes? How do affective processes increase or decrease policy value, or shape chances to pursue particular policy opportunities, and to
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28 Jul 2023 • Journal Article • Grotiana
Sepúlveda on the Spanish Invasion of the Americas: Defending Empire, Debating Las Casas, edited and translated by Luke Glanville, David Lupher, and Maya Feile Tomes
AbstractOn 7 July 1550 a council of fourteen leading theologians and jurists convened by the King of Spain met in Valladolid ostensibly to discuss ‘by what manner and under what laws our Holy Catholic Faith should be preached and promulgated’. In effect, however, they met to discuss the justice of the conquest of the New World and the subjection of its inhabitants. This was
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