The Heart of Anti-American Sentiment in Muslim Countries
The US struggle for hearts and minds in Muslim countries has been aiming at the wrong targets, a new study claims. The effort poured into diplomacy and public relations to counter anti-American...
View ArticlePerspectives on Politics Marks 10 Years Despite Canceled Conference
The 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting & Exhibition, set to begin August 30, 2012 in New Orleans, was canceled as Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi,...
View ArticleEvery Town Should Have One? Emergency Food Banking in the UK.
Research into food banking highlights the importance of rights-based approaches to food experiences in the UK. Research published in the Journal of Social Policy… explores the rise of the UK’s first...
View ArticleThe Impact of the 2013 Social Security Cuts: More Social Disorder this Summer
The current UK government’s policies include headlong spending cuts and a far-reaching restructuring of public provision. These policies have failed in their stated objectives of reducing the deficit...
View ArticleLocal trends in teen conceptions reveal some surprises
Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are high compared with many other countries but there is marked variation across local areas, including those with high deprivation. Tim Blackman discusses his...
View ArticleLand Politics in Africa: Constituting Authority over Territory, Property and...
The latest Special issue of Africa,… guest Edited by Professors Christian Lund and Catherine Boone, examines how institutions and actors attempt to create and assert authority to determine access to...
View ArticleHow to get your book published, part 1
In the first of three posts, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few notes on getting your first book ready for publication. In these posts, John focuses on revised...
View ArticleHow to get your book published, part 2
In his second post, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few more notes on getting your first book ready for publication. John focuses on revised theses and other...
View ArticleHow to get your book published, part 3
Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few final notes on getting your first book ready for publication. In his posts, John focuses on revised theses and other first...
View ArticlePsst! Do you want to know a secret?
If you promise not to tell anyone, then I will let you in on something that only select people know. Promise? All right then, here it is: the papers of the special issue of the…
View ArticleDiscussing the ban on the Burqa: Third Annual ICLQ Lecture 2013
In September 2010 the French Senate approved a ban on the wearing of face-covering headgear and in April 2011 it became illegal to wear a face-covering veil or other mask in public places. This has…
View ArticlePublishing Your First Journal Article: an Academic Publisher’s view – 1
You’ve got an idea for a paper, but aren’t sure about how to get your scholarship to the right audience. Melissa Good, Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Journals, gives an overview. She manages a...
View ArticlePublishing Your First Journal Article: an Academic Publisher’s view – 2
You’ve got an idea for a paper, but aren’t sure about how to get your scholarship to the right audience. Melissa Good, Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Journals, completes her overview. What happens...
View ArticleGrammaticality judgment tests and linguistic ability in second language...
Posted on behalf of Xavier Gutiérrez Xavier Gutiérrez is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish at the University of Alberta in Canada. His latest article, published in Studies in...
View ArticleFrom Nudging to Budging: Behavioural economic-informed regulation of the...
Many politicians and policy makers in several countries have embraced the concept of ‘nudging’ in shaping policy and influencing citizens’ behaviour. Adam Oliver argues that we should refrain from...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be un-American?
We are pleased to announce the publication of the “Un-America” Special issue of of Journal of American Studies…. As an introduction to the topic of Un-Americanism, Dr George Lewis, Guest Editor of the...
View ArticlePrison Health Discharge Planning – Evidence of an Integrated Care Pathway or...
Post written by Wendy Dyer and Paul Biddle Improvements in offender healthcare are key to the current UK Government’s reform of the criminal justice system and the aims of reducing reoffending and...
View Article2014: A Big Year for Law and Society Scholarship
2014 marks 50 years of the Law and Society Association, the largest society for socio-legal scholarship. Attendance of the Association’s annual conference has grown from less than 100 scholars in the...
View ArticleHas the welfare state been reinvented?
Post written by H.J.M. Fenger European welfare states have a tradition in compensating for social risks. But across Europe, remarkable transformations may be observed that shift the focus from a...
View ArticleSpecial Issue of Children Australia focuses on International Child and Family...
Post written by Nicki Taylor This Special Issue of Children Australia… focuses on international child and family law topics. It includes nine high-quality articles from authors spanning three different...
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