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Authoritarian Populism in Transitional Countries of Western Balkans

open access: yesIustinianus Primus Law Review, 2014
Populism today is a topic in Europe in different societies and at different levels, as in the recent past. Of course, the concept is split again among various opinions about populism, like those claiming it is a political tactic, rhetorical ...
Ljubomir Danilov Frchkoski
doaj  

Is There a ‘Cancel Culture’, and if so, for Whom? Rank‐Based Differences in Restrictions on Academic Freedom

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full‐time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research.
Julian Hamann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people who are or can be at home anywhere in the world (the “Anywheres”) is at the heart of many contemporary political conflicts. According to him, the
Achim Hildebrandt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks

open access: yesFilosofický časopis
This paper examines Urbinati’s theory of populism, with the aim of bringing to the fore a lacuna in such theory. The lacuna concerns her appreciation of the role of rhetoric in populism and more generally in democracy. If Urbinati’s general understanding
Ballacci, Giuseppe
doaj   +1 more source

The Symbolic Organisation of Political Antagonism: An Integrative Model of Cultural and Social Polarisation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Worrying Expertise: Representation and Expert Knowledge in Trade Unions

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies of professionalisation, oligarchy and expertise have asked how expertise affects democratic representation in professionalised membership organisations. This article approaches that problem from the other direction by examining the role of representation in the production of expert knowledge.
Staffan Edling
wiley   +1 more source

A Hundred Years of the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The centenary of the UK‐based Agricultural Economics Society (AES) is an obvious opportunity to provide an updated summary institutional history of its development and achievements. Knowledge of equivalent associations in the US influenced the foundation of the AES in 1926.
David R. Stead
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
wiley   +1 more source

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