2 International Political Economy (IPE) is a relatively new sub-discipline within Political Science. The first textbook in the area was published in 1977 (Spero 1977), and regularly scheduled undergraduate and graduate courses were not routinely offered until the middle 1980s. Even today, the boundaries of IPE are not always clear – the overlap with political economy research in Comparative Pol...

mohammed, north, and ashton find that decentralization in fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. they surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....

Drawing on recent visual and spatial turns in history writing, this paper considers AIDS posters from the perspective of their museum 'afterlife' as collected material objects. Museum spaces serve changing political and epistemological projects, and the visual objects they house are not immune from them. A recent globally themed exhibition of AIDS posters at an arts and crafts museum in Hamburg...

In studies of popular politics a split exists. Some scholars focus on rather tame forms of participation while others become interested mainly when political action spills out onto the streets. This article considers acts located near the boundary between official, prescribed politics and politics by other means. It explores popular pressure that is arguably legal, permissible in some eyes but ...

The popularity of digital media has spurred what been called a “crisis authority”. How do female evangelical microcelebrities figure in this crisis? Many these women belong to churches led by male pastors, have amassed large following online, and are sought-after speakers teachers. This paper analyses how gender, religious authority, the sphere collide through rise microcelebrities. Bringing to...

The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

The literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics has established the interplay between domestic transnational norms political tactics. However, knowledge about how local LGBTIQ activists understand, negotiate, employ campaigns tactics over time remains limited. This article builds dynamics national politics. Based interviews with Cypriot activists, it exam...

This special issue argues that the novelty of current migration realities is not so much due to scale or forms practices as it rise anti-migrant politics, which has led institution and differentiation novel border regimes. Over years, resistance have developed against these regimes politics in different places on various scales. highlights emergent interplay everyday resisting subverting them. ...