Ralf Wetzel, (Vlerick Business School, Belgium) The enormous sums earned by the stars of modern commercialized football, like Messi, Götze, or [...]
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The Media and Child Abuse
Fred Powell and Margaret Scanlon (University College, Cork) The media has played a key role in the construction of child abuse [...]
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Jo Pavey wins a race: Is 40 the new 30 in athletics?
Emmanuelle Tulle (Glasgow Caledonian University) Jo Pavey won the 10k at the European Championships in Zurich in August 2014. She was [...]
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Focus: Budge up Nudge – Policy fashions and the demise of an intervention
Alan Warde (University of Manchester) There are few more important political issues of the 21st century than the making of arrangements [...]
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Viewpoint: The Future of Human Rights in India
Roger Jeffery (University of Edinburgh) In May 2014, to the surprise of many commentators, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party – the BJP [...]
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On the Frontline: Poverty, Opium and Militarisation in Modern Burma’s Golden Triangle
Ta’ang National Liberation Army soldiers taking tea break during village meeting (Photo: Alec Scott) Alec Scott (Burma Campaign, UK) In the past [...]
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Policy Briefing: Scotland’s Health – Could independence help rescue the ‘sick man of Europe’?
Kat Smith, Jeff Collin, Mark Hellowell and Rob Ralston (University of Edinburgh) In the Scottish government White Paper setting out [...]
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Euroscepticism – what is the stance of young Germans and Britons?
Robert Grimm (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Marius Guderjan (Humboldt University) Eurosceptic parties across the EU have never been more successful than [...]
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A country called Europe? A cartographic story of a continent united in diversity
Dimitris Ballas (University of Sheffield), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Benjamin Hennig (University of Oxford) “… we must re-create the European [...]
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Scotland: State and Devolution…but not Revolution…as yet?
Gerry Mooney (The Open University in Scotland) In the debate on Scottish independence there has been much emphasis on policy architecture, [...]
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