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The Politics of Hope: Strategies of Compromise in the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's intelligence chiefs explicitly link the role and purpose of their agencies today to two royal commissions led by Justice Robert Hope in the 1970s and 1980s. Such appeals to Hope's inquiries as the genesis of Australia's contemporary professional and apolitical intelligence community lean into the legitimising function of royal ...
Melanie Brand, Brian Cuddy
wiley   +1 more source

(Non)belonging and (un)freedom

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Learning traps

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract When constituents are uncertain about whether leaders' policy preferences align with their interests, policy choices generate a trade‐off between payoffs and information. Leaders can experiment with their preferred policy, but if the outcome is bad, constituents learn this and threaten office removal. I use a repeated model of political agency
Hassan Sayed
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Structure and agency in emancipatory reform: A blueprint from a Black union

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and ...
Benjamin T. Lynerd
wiley   +1 more source

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