Lisa Kalayji In an unprecedented turn, the UK Labour Party recently announced that it would extend access to its all-women candidacy [...]
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On the Frontline: Syrian Youth in Lebanon – Unforeseen Challenges
Ali M. Kassem Lebanon is a small Mediterranean multicultural and multi-religious nation suffering from both a long-standing fragile socio-economic reality and [...]
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Policy & Politics: The Rise of the Nudge Expert
Joram Feitsma This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]
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What did women really want? Writing a suppressed history of social reform
Ann Oakley As we celebrate the centenary of British women’s (limited) admission to the franchise, it is easy to lose sight [...]
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Abortion Law in Ireland: Time for Change?
Fiona de Londras and Máiréad Enright Throughout the life of the Irish state it has been a criminal offence to access [...]
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Precarious work: Understanding the new employment relations
Arne L Kalleberg and Steven Vallas Profound changes in work have had deep impacts on workers and their families throughout the [...]
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Racism. Work. Brexit. Empire
Stephen Ashe In recent years, Business in the Community (BITC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have commissioned two of the [...]
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The power of our social media data
David Beer The stories about Cambridge Analytica and the use of Facebook data have been sweeping across the media over recent [...]
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‘It needn’t be true as long as it’s believable: manipulating data to strategize propaganda in the era of ‘alternative facts’
Christian Garland The title of this article takes the words of Alexander Nix, co-founder and CEO of ‘political consultancy’ Cambridge [...]
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The Coming Epistemic Transition: From Small to Big Data
Hamish Robertson, Joanne Travaglia and Nick Nicholas Current attitudes towards ‘big data’ are quite mixed including positive, negative and various kinds [...]
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