A Voice Despite Exit: The Role of Assimilation, Emigrant Networks, and Destination in Emigrants’ Transnational Political Engagement
What explains varying levels of emigrant transnational engagement in homecountry politics? The well-known difficulties in obtaining migrant profile data and restriction to a few destination countries have resulted in a lack of systematic empirical investigation of this question. We expand nascent efforts to fill this gap by offering a new theoretical framework and novel research design that stress the potential importance of destination characteristics.
Bureaucratic norms and state capacity in India implementing primary education in the Himalayan region
Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms-unwritten rules that guide public officials-influence how well state agencies deliver services for the poor. The findings call attention to the informal, everyday practices that generate state capacity.
The United Nations
Europe Unbound: geopolitics, economics, and communication
Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage
'SEESOX: Our Mission' - a film of the story of South East European Studies at Oxford University
'Wake Up Europe! Why Britain should stay engaged and transform the EU'
As the Eurozone crisis leads to increasing ‘Euro-contestation’, debate has intensified over how the European Union should be reformed. The UK has a crucial role to play in this debate. In this session, we will engage in a conversation as to why and how.
Book Review: Drone Wars
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The Externalities of Inequality: Fear of Crime and Preferences for Redistribution in Western Europe
Why is the difference in redistribution preferences between the rich and the poor high in some countries and low in others? In this article, we argue that it has a lot to do with the rich and very little to do with the poor. We contend that while there is a general relative income effect on redistribution preferences, the preferences of the rich are highly dependent on the macrolevel of inequality. The reason for this effect is not related to immediate tax and transfer considerations but to a negative externality of inequality: crime.