Chicago's political decline

Economic decline and political reform in Papua New Guinea

Mixing politics and crime - The prevalence and decline of political discourse on the cryptomarket.

BACKGROUND Dread Pirate Roberts, founder of the first cryptomarket for illicit drugs named Silk Road, articulated libertarian political motives for his ventures. Previous research argues that there is a significant political component present or involved in cryptomarket drug dealing which is specifically libertarian. The aim of the paper is to investigate the prevalence of political discourses ...

The (Ontological) Politics in Depoliticisation Debates: Three Lenses on the Decline of the Political

The argument that representative democracies are experiencing an age of depoliticisation has become increasingly prominent. However, there has been too little reflection on the assumptions made about politics within the depoliticisation literature. This has led to a lack of precision in terms of how we identify (de)politicisation empirically and the grounds upon which we can normatively critiqu...

The emergence, growth and decline of political priority for newborn survival in Bolivia.

Bolivia is expected to achieve United Nations Millennium Development Goal Four, reducing under-five child mortality by two-thirds between 2021 and 2025. However, progress on child mortality reduction masks a disproportionately slow decline in newborn deaths during the 2000s. Bolivia's neonatal mortality problem emerged on the policy agenda in the mid-1990s and grew through 2004 in relationship ...

Who cares about financialization? Explaining the decline in political salience of active markets for corporate control

Why is unprecedented financialization failing to provoke a strong political backlash? The role of financial markets, motives, actors, and institutions has expanded continuously in recent decades, but – contrary to Polanyi’s “double movement” theory and despite the current financial crisis – market-containment efforts have grown weaker over time. The present paper approaches this puzzle by expla...