Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Politics

  1. The article frames theology as a response to climate emergency
    Develops integral eco-theology integrating COP30 outcomes and Earth Charter+25 renewal through Pope Francis's ecology and Wilber's AQAL framework, positioning degrowth and rewilding as ecodomy.
  2. Knowledge can both politicize and depoliticize environmental conflicts
    Analysis of knowledge mobilization in environmental conflicts showing that expert and grassroots knowledge both politicize and depoliticize issues in complex, contingent ways.
  3. Congress, especially Republicans, uses more security framing in trade policy
    Analysis of US trade discourse from 2001 to 2025 shows Congress uses security framing more than the executive branch, with Republicans in Congress leading the trend.
  4. Feminist logic may favor bilateralist strong negation
    Feminist critique of inferentialism showing how formal logic systems embed political hierarchies and proposing paraconsistent alternatives that address these concerns.
  5. Indonesia’s dynastic politics coincided with democratic decline
    Examine how Indonesian political dynasties systematically manipulated democratic institutions from 2014-2024 while preserving electoral legitimacy through adaptive mechanisms and constitutional.
  6. Swedish municipalities show interest in biodiversity but face constraints
    National survey reveals Swedish municipalities prioritise biodiversity but face organisational constraints, funding gaps, and conflicting agendas that fragment implementation efforts.
  7. Iranian political science curricula reflect state-led Islamization
    Analysis of how authoritarian state policies reshape political science curricula and research in Iranian universities through ideological control and institutional mechanisms.
  8. Listing changes how policy uncertainty affects R&D investment
    Study shows IPOs have dual effects on R&D spending in China: listing encourages investment under policy uncertainty, but political connections gained reduce it.
  9. Murui-Muina use language differences to mark subgroup identity
    Ethnographic study of how Murui-Muina speakers in the Colombian Amazon use lexical contrasts to sustain four ethnolinguistic subgroups, challenging conventional definitions of language.
  10. Civic Data at the Seams
    Civic data projects depend on managing seams—misalignments between institutions and stakeholders. Research on heat island mapping reveals how these boundaries require continuous maintenance and.
  11. Plant closure reduced incumbent votes, but effects faded after compensation
    Analysis of Danish shipyard closure shows plant closures reduce incumbent support through unemployment and blame attribution, but targeted compensation policies can neutralize electoral effects.
  12. Care is central in anatomical pathology technologists’ autopsy work
    Qualitative study examining care practices among anatomical pathology technologists in medico-legal autopsies and implications for coronial justice legitimacy.
  13. Executive dominance and weak institutions hinder Madagascar's republic
    Analysis of Madagascar's governance crisis identifies executive dominance and absence of political virtue as obstacles to justice, proposing ethical and structural reforms.
  14. Challenging Europe's Memory Regime: The Far Right's Narratives on Russia in The Shadow of War
    Analysis of how far-right parties in Germany, France, and Hungary construct competing historical narratives about Russia that challenge the EU's post-Cold War memory framework.
  15. Political donations are linked to lower cash holdings and investment efficiency
    Study of 300 Australian firms reveals political donations correlate with lower cash holdings, higher leverage, and reduced investment efficiency, pointing to agency costs.
  16. GIS maps crop change in nineteenth-century eastern Africa
    GIS analysis of 1857-1876 explorer accounts reveals spatial and temporal patterns in maize, rice, and cassava adoption across inland equatorial eastern Africa along caravan routes.
  17. Toponymic Practices in the Historical Geography of Sudan
    Historical study of Sudan's place names, revealing how external observers dominated toponymic practices while local naming traditions were lost or marginalized in regional historiography.
  18. Mass opinion shows little ideological structure
    Analysis of six million responses to Belgium's Voting Advice Application reveals voters lack ideological coherence while elites maintain consistent ideological structures.
  19. Voters use ideology labels to infer candidate policy positions
    Study reveals voters in multiparty systems use left-right ideology labels to infer candidate positions, even when their own ideology misaligns with their policy preferences.
  20. Reddit showed mixed views of the APA Goldwater Rule
    Analysis of Reddit discourse on the Goldwater Rule from 2016-2024 reveals public skepticism about psychiatric ethics guidelines, with 57.77% expressing neutral or negative views on restricting.