“I may be getting my hair done but I don’t care too much how it looks”:...
Dr Rachel Heinrichsmeier from King’s College London reports on a practice used by older women in her research in a hair-salon.…
View ArticleGender-Submission Gap and Women’s Underrepresentation in Political Science...
Women are running for U.S. public office in record numbers, offering hopes of seriously tackling the gender gap in political representation.…
View ArticleDo the 50 American States Give Voters What They Want on Health and Immigration?
The 50 American state governments have been faced with many questions related to healthcare and immigration in the past two decades.…
View ArticleThe dynamics of policy change in authoritarian countries
In democratic countries, actors inside and outside the state have various channels for expressing their concerns and influencing policy agendas. In contrast, in authoritarian countries, less inclusive...
View ArticleMore bang for your buck: tax compliance in the United States and Italy
Sven Steinmo states in his book Taxation and Democracy, “Governments need money. Modern Governments need lots of money.” This is no less true today than it was twenty-five years ago when he wrote it.…
View ArticleHow Bureaucratic Leadership Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and...
Unified control of policymaking by a single political party is perhaps necessary, but not sufficient for observing policy outcomes consistent with majoritarian policy preferences.…
View ArticleHow Ideas are Replacing Identities in Nigeria’s Electoral Competition
The 2015 defeat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls was Nigeria’s first “electoral turnover,” giving us a new narrative for the decline of dominant parties.…
View ArticleLabor Strikes Are Costly, Difficult… and Effective
With teachers on strike in Los Angeles and airport workers on strike in Berlin, early 2019 already looks set to be a notable year for labor actions in Europe and the United States.…
View ArticleWhen less public participation may be better public participation
Currently, policymaking is torn between two demands. On the one hand, issues become increasingly complex, calling for the incorporation of expertise in the policymaking process and increasingly complex...
View ArticleGender-Submission Gap and Women’s Underrepresentation in Political Science...
Women are running for U.S. public office in record numbers, offering hopes of seriously tackling the gender gap in political representation.…
View ArticleDo the 50 American States Give Voters What They Want on Health and Immigration?
The 50 American state governments have been faced with many questions related to healthcare and immigration in the past two decades.…
View ArticleThe dynamics of policy change in authoritarian countries
In democratic countries, actors inside and outside the state have various channels for expressing their concerns and influencing policy agendas. In contrast, in authoritarian countries, less inclusive...
View ArticleMore bang for your buck: tax compliance in the United States and Italy
Sven Steinmo states in his book Taxation and Democracy, “Governments need money. Modern Governments need lots of money.” This is no less true today than it was twenty-five years ago when he wrote it.…
View ArticleHow Bureaucratic Leadership Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and...
Unified control of policymaking by a single political party is perhaps necessary, but not sufficient for observing policy outcomes consistent with majoritarian policy preferences.…
View ArticleHow Ideas are Replacing Identities in Nigeria’s Electoral Competition
The 2015 defeat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls was Nigeria’s first “electoral turnover,” giving us a new narrative for the decline of dominant parties.…
View ArticleHow Policy Instruments Matter in Higher Education Performance
According to the mainstream literature related to governance change in higher education (HE),Western European governments have redesigned governance systems to make HE institutions more accountable by...
View ArticleThe Great Keyishian Case: lessons in academic freedom from the Cold War
When the History of Education Quarterly asked me to contribute to a symposium on academic freedom, I could hardly refuse. I had recently written a book about how anti-communist witch hunters in the...
View ArticleProtecting Academic Freedom: Using the Past to Chart a Path Toward the Future
This blog accompanies the Forum on Academic Freedom published in History of Education Quarterly. In the past decade or so, there has been an uptick in assaults on academic freedom across the globe. …
View ArticleLabor Strikes Are Costly, Difficult… and Effective
With teachers on strike in Los Angeles and airport workers on strike in Berlin, early 2019 already looks set to be a notable year for labor actions in Europe and the United States.…
View ArticleAfrica’s future is urban
Africa’s future is urban. By 2050, the majority of Africans will live in cities, transforming its societies and economies. Yet very little is known about the impact this demographic shift will have on...
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