Understanding dogwhistles politics

Profit or Politics? Understanding Renationalizations in Russia

This study tests alternative hypotheses about firm-level determinants of the government incentives to acquire controlling stakes in private companies. Using a novel hand-collected dataset of 153 largest listed and unlisted Russian companies, I investigate the economic and political rationale of a 2004-2008 wave of selected nationalizations and provide new evidence on the methods and characteris...

Raymond Aron and the Politics of Understanding

Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. Translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. (CPW) Democracy and Totalitarianism: A Theory of Political Systems. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. (Dem) Les Dernieres Annees du Siecle. Paris: Julliard, 1983. (DA) Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society. Translated by M. K. Bottomore. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson...

Understanding Tradition in British Politics and Beyond

Please do not cite without permission The concept of 'tradition' is used in a range of different ways within studies of British politics. Despite this there have been only a few attempts to theorise notions of tradition within British political science. Furthermore the different concepts of tradition forwarded by conservatives, interpretivists and realists have each been contested. This paper e...

Understanding Japanese Politics from a Local Perspective

Understanding and countering misperceptions in politics and health care

Misperceptions about politics and health can undermine public debate and distort people’s choices and behavior. Why do people hold these false or unsupported beliefs and why is it so difficult to change their minds? An emerging literature examines the difficulty of correcting false or unsupported beliefs and the reasons for this resistance, but relatively little is known about the sources of mi...