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It is easy to explain why countries with rampant corruption tend to have poor economic performance: corrupt officials steal funds from the economy and steer resources to easy-to-corrupt, wasteful projects....
It is entirely reasonable to believe that media coverage is systematically flawed. In some ways, it is! Too much attention is paid to violent crime (Altheide 1997; Soroka 2014). Tweets are increasingly...
It is almost a cliché that politics is a lot like magic. Even the language we use to describe it, when we talk of ‘dark arts’ and ‘cabals’, implies occult mysteries. Political success often depends not...
OECD countries adopt different models of healthcare financing. The health financing mechanisms incorporate not only opposing interests (some models favor the highest incomes, others the lowest) but even...
If democracy is the story of people gaining a collective voice, then there is a lot more to be told. It is not a tale without its tribulations or turning points, often threatened by those for whom power...
A woman holding a baby in one arm with a gun slung over the other. It’s a powerful image of a society mobilizing for revolution, carrying overtones of self-determination and gender equality. Striking...
Sometimes, during research, what appears to be a narrow, well-charted path opens out into a startling vista. In 2016, my PhD supervisor, Anna Snaith, advised me to look at the transcripts of early radio...
On the 20th of January 2021, the Biden administration released a fact sheet detailing executive actions it would deliver within hours of inauguration. The orders addressed four interrelated crises: the...
You might be offered a dinner in a New England restaurant or an overnight stay in a Midlands pub, a room furnished with a four-poster bed, an oak wooden dresser or even a fishing rod. What would these...
We are all familiar with the jelly bean guessing game. Let every kid in the birthday party make their best guess on the number of jelly beans inside the jar. Whoever is closest to the correct number,...
What does it mean and what does it take to be a foreign language speaker in late antique Christianity? Was such a person considered a heretic? A barbarian? A Christian of equal standing? A saint or a...
In pre-pandemic times scientists’ skilled migration and mobility were described as major drivers of international collaboration among peer scientists overseas. However, since the start of the Covid-19...
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