Politics

  1. Mainstream vegan discourse may reinforce human exceptionalism
    Examine how mainstream vegan advocacy's focus on sentient animal welfare reinforces anthropocentrism. Explore post-anthropocentric frameworks for transformative multispecies ethics beyond zoocentrism.
  2. Intelligence reports reveal shifts in ethnic German morale in annexed Poland
    Comparative analysis of Polish Underground and Nazi SS intelligence reports reveals ethnic German sentiment shifts in Nazi-annexed Poland 1942-1944, reconstructing morale and loyalty patterns.
  3. Socio-natural resilience reshapes hydrosocial territories in Yangtze governance
    Examine governance transformations in China's Yangtze River through socio-natural resilience and hydrosocial territory analysis, revealing how power dynamics shape water management.
  4. Swiss parties join referendum campaigns for policy and image reasons
    Strategic analysis of political party participation in referendum campaigns, examining public attention, issue salience, and initiator status across 33 Swiss referendums using regression analysis.
  5. Pasmanda feminism reframes caste and gender in 'Dulari'
    Analysis of Sajjad Zaheer's 'Dulari' through Pasmanda feminism, examining intersections of caste, gender, and religious marginalization in Indian Muslim communities.
  6. Black So Man's songs critique Burkina Faso's postcolonial failures
    Explore how Burkinabé artist Black So Man uses human constellations and affective language in his music to critique postcolonial state dysfunction and neocolonial exploitation in Burkina Faso.
  7. Model captures rise and fall of ideas' popularity
    Novel SIRS-based model with dynamic feedback mechanisms captures cyclical rise and fall of idea popularity through endogenous system features rather than exogenous shocks.
  8. Mass Observation offers access to British public opinion and feeling
    Explore how Mass Observation methodology illuminates British political disaffection and polarization through longitudinal archival data, offering researchers unique insights into public sentiment.
  9. Latin American markets showed resilience after corruption scandals
    Event study analysis of political corruption scandal impacts on Latin American CDS and EMBI spreads 2017-2020, examining market resilience and implications for institutional governance.
  10. Political connections are linked to lower corporate innovation
    Study reveals how political connections paradoxically inhibit innovation in Chinese firms, with governance structures and dynamic capabilities serving as critical mitigating factors.
  11. American architects pursued major projects in 1970s Iran
    Explore American architects' ambitious but largely unrealized projects in 1970s Iran, driven by oil wealth and Cold War economics but constrained by political instability and cultural disconnects.
  12. TikTok refugees and RedNote natives formed a cosmopolitan discursive community
    Explores how TikTok users and RedNote natives built digital solidarity during the US TikTok ban, forming cosmopolitan communities through cultural exchange and everyday communication practices.
  13. Mokae’s novel reworks the police procedural in post-apartheid South Africa
    Analysis of Gomolemo Mokae's post-apartheid detective novel examining genre subversion, black consciousness thought, and reimagining of police authority in South African crime fiction.
  14. Private pension solutions face inflation and policy barriers
    Analysis of structural factors undermining public pension systems within welfare states, examining inflation, investment risks, and institutional barriers.
  15. The Voice of Reform: Muslim Nesan and Muslim Society in Colonial Ceylon
    Analyzes Muslim Nesan newspaper's role in catalyzing social, educational, and religious reform among Tamil-speaking Muslims in colonial Ceylon from 1882 to 1889.
  16. Article traces the "imaginary" in technology, war, and security studies
    Explore how imaginaries shape technology, warfare, and great power competition. This article maps social, sociotechnical, and security imaginaries as analytical frameworks for international.
  17. Transformer method measures inter-party communication
    Transformer-based approach for automated measurement of inter-party communication in representative democracies, with applications to coalition signals and negative campaigning analysis.
  18. Sovereignty violations can trigger emotional multilateral responses
    Analysis of sovereignty violations as dignity denials, examining performative emotionality in multilateral responses to state-led kidnappings through Argentine and Japanese case studies.
  19. Ordinary Germans adopted democratic habits without full democratic meaning
    Examines how ordinary Germans engaged with democratization during Allied occupation, revealing democracy functioned as performative rituals before becoming authentic political consciousness.
  20. Party archive types create different obstacles for comparative research
    Explore a typological framework for comparative political party archival research, addressing methodological barriers and heterogeneity across institutional contexts for social scientists.