Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Politics

  1. Village heads used government aid to sustain political power
    Study of how Indonesian village heads use government assistance to maintain power and influence elections during the country's democratic transition period.
  2. Rural schooling is shaped by local, digital, and spatial tensions
    Ethnographic study of Swedish rural education reveals tensions between local traditions and global digital influences, showing how place-making shapes students' aspirations and futures.
  3. GCM’s impact on Canadian migration policy appears limited
    Legal analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration's impact on Canadian migration policies, revealing gaps between international commitments and domestic practice.
  4. Prospective homeowners are more right-wing than satisfied renters
    Survey of Canadian renters reveals prospective homeowners hold rightward policy views but don't vote accordingly, suggesting ideology predates homeownership.
  5. Imported criminalisation affects Kurdish diaspora in Nordic countries
    Analysis of how the Turkey-Sweden-Finland NATO memorandum altered legal frameworks affecting Kurdish diaspora populations through imported criminalisation mechanisms.
  6. German right-wing fiction uses imagined book power to seem effective
    Analysis of contemporary German right-wing fiction reveals how political novels stage fantasies of literary power to address the genre's declining cultural authority in the twenty-first century.
  7. Foreign-born women remain underrepresented in Swedish councils and parliament
    Literature review of 20 studies examining foreign-born political underrepresentation in Swedish parliament and local councils alongside analysis of factors enabling or hindering their participation.
  8. Resourcing shapes influence and fragmentation in international organizations
    Special issue examining how state resourcing decisions—through funding, personnel, and support—fragment international organizations and undermine multilateral governance effectiveness.
  9. Nested governance is seen as insufficient for planetary environmental crises
    Examining why global environmental governance fails to address planetary crises through fragmented multilateral agreements and proposing nested systems and world federation approaches for.
  10. Political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire increased political secularization
    Political crises catalyzed institutional secularization in Côte d'Ivoire, with politicians marginalizing religious leadership. Secularism remained confined to political spheres.
  11. Trump election linked to overreaction in low-ESG and alternative energy stocks
    Event study analysis of 2024 U.S. election reveals significant market overreaction in ESG and alternative energy stocks, casting doubt on sustainable investment resilience.
  12. Party aid and party research rest on different assumptions
    Article examining the gap between international party support practitioners and comparative researchers, identifying differing conceptualizations of party function as a barrier to convergence.
  13. BRICS discourse challenges Western climate governance narratives
    Comparative legal discourse analysis of BRICS countries' positions on state climate obligations, examining how epistemological contestation challenges Western dominance in global climate governance.
  14. Reimagining Identity in Postcolonial East African Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Comparative analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah examines divergent approaches to representing postcolonial identity and historical trauma in East African fiction.
  15. Social media helped organize Indonesian protest agendas
    Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.
  16. The essay argues crisis urbanism is persistent yet progress remains possible
    Critical examination of crisis urbanism as structural feature of contemporary urbanization, analyzing personal-planetary dialectics and historical continuities in urban crises.
  17. Survey wording may shape Black women’s reported emotions and political participation
    Survey methodology influences emotion reporting among Black women in political participation, revealing gaps in intersectional theories of affect and electoral engagement.
  18. Politics should be rigorous, problem-driven, and cross-disciplinary
    Explore how a PPE graduate developed a rigorous political science methodology emphasizing temporal and spatial analysis over behavioural paradigms, bridging humanities and social sciences through.
  19. Sound installation created an aural space inside a water tower
    Site-specific sound installation study exploring aural architecture within Santiago water tower heritage structures through multichannel sonic composition and phenomenological spatial experience.
  20. Subsidies and health framing draw higher support for meat-reduction policies
    Survey of 10,513 respondents across six countries shows meat-reduction policies gain higher support with subsidies and health framing over taxes and climate messaging.