Daniel Smith ‘A spectre is haunting Britain – the spectre of gentry.’ We are all denying its existence in our holy [...]
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Category "2016"
The two Irelands in the Euros: a win for peace?
David Mitchell, Ian Somerville and Owen Hargie The European football championships finish this month – and what will we have learned? [...]
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Doing Public Sociology: Student perspectives of international placements
Maya Blake Boland, Allysa Gatinao, Chloe Hernandez, Daniel Marsh, Crystal Nicholson, Ana Paixao Pancada, Odette Schwarz, Samuel Trimm, Ceyda Vasif, [...]
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FOCUS: Racial Inequality and the Weakening of Voting Rights in America
Desmond King and Rogers M Smith In our book, Still a House Divided (2011), and set of published papers, we [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Authoritarian Populism and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Dilip Menon Contemporary populism is usually located in a crisis of parliamentary democracy in which the question of popular sovereignty begins [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Trump and Working Class Distress
Monica Prasad I’ve heard several plausible explanations for Donald Trump’s popularity, including that it all boils down to racism, or that [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: There is More than One Way to Involve the Public in Policy Decisions
Rikki Dean The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated [...]
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The Spatial Logic of Racial Inequality
Nina Yancy At the start of this century, the Texan town where I grew up might have been paraded as a [...]
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Race, Violence and the Failure of the American State
Lisa L. Miller It has become fashionable among American liberals to condemn the American state for its great penal experiment that [...]
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Understanding the ‘Paradox’ of the First Black President
Richard Johnson In spite of sanguine predictions made at the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House [...]
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