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Partisan and Racial Sorting of Christian Nationalism, 1996–2022: Backlash and Counter Backlash on the (White) Secular Left and Religious Right

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Christian nationalism scholarship and discourse has surged in the years since Trump's 2016 election victory, even as, by most measures, adherence to Christian nationalist beliefs has declined. Applying scholarship on political backlash, I propose that this apparent discrepancy may be explained both by ideological trends antithetical to public ...
Jesse Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti‐Multicultural Era

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores what the future role of multiculturalism is, or may be, in Europe by looking at the case of the Netherlands. It focuses on how to respond to the tensions between, on the one hand, prevalent discourses on the dangers, demise and reckoning of multiculturalism and, on the other hand, the promotion of equal citizenship and ...
Tamar de Waal
wiley   +1 more source

Is decolonisation sufficient? [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health, 2022
Contractor SQ, Dasgupta J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 and Scottish Independence: The Instrumentalisation of the Pandemic in the Constitutional Debate

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
The Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in the UK in a specific context where, in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, much of the political scene had been dominated by constitutional politics.
Nelly Gérard
doaj   +1 more source

An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities. [PDF]

Ambio, 2023
van der Jagt APN, Buijs A, Dobbs C, van Lierop M, Pauleit S, Randrup TB, Wild T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategic Use of Ad Hoc Commissions for Blame Avoidance: Evidence From Chile

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ad hoc commissions are well known in policymaking, yet their strategic deployment during crises remains less understood. This study examines how governments rely on expert commissions to manage blame and political risk in response to critical events.
Carla Cisternas
wiley   +1 more source

The hedgerow: industrial farming's "useful idiot"?: The contributions and limitations of radical criticism in sociological analysis. [PDF]

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud, 2023
Magnin L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Depoliticising energy policy: transformative ideas won’t happen when technocrats are in charge [PDF]

, 2016
Political economy and public policy scholars have argued that UK governance has been increasingly depoliticised through the displacement of responsibility to market actors; the creation of ‘arms length’ bodies; and the power of experts to make decisions ...
Kuzemko, Caroline
core  

Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source