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Low-energy Tests of Fundamental Physics
2018
This article presents a personal perspective on why it is interesting and important to test all kinds of fundamental laws and search for as-yet-undiscovered particles and interactions using laboratory-based non-accelerator techniques. Such room-scale experiments are already spearheading discovery, and can be expected to become even more important as accelerators reach seemingly inevitable limits.
The measurement of populist attitudes: Testing cross-national scales using item response theory
2019
Recent research in the populism literature has devoted considerable efforts to the conceptualisation and examination of populism on the individual level, that is, populist attitudes. Despite rapid progress in the field, questions of adequate measurement and empirical evaluation of measures of populist attitudes remain scarce. Seeking to remedy these shortcomings, we apply a cross-national measurement model, using item response theory, to six established and two new populist indicators. Drawing on a cross-national survey (nine European countries, n = 18,368), we engage in a four-folded analysis. First, we examine the commonly used 6-item populism scale. Second, we expand the measurement wit…
Book Review: James Midgley, Espen Dahl and Amy Conley Wright (eds) Social Investment and Social Welfare: International and Critical Perspectives
2018
The language of recovery
2020
Abstract The present study attempts to make a comparative analysis of two Spanish and American political speeches, which belong to two different debate traditions, in terms of the metaphors used. For that purpose, we analyze the Economy sections of the 2015 State of the Union Address in the US and in the 2015 State of the Nation Debate in Spain. The present study aims at answering the following research questions: What metaphors do President Obama and Prime Minister Rajoy use in the American and Spanish political speeches to convince their audiences of America’s and Spain’s economic victory? What are the similarities and differences between the representations depicted by metaphor use in th…
India’s Turn to Rights-Based Legislation (2004–2014): A Critical Review of the Literature
2018
This article surveys the academic literature on rights-based legislation and critically discusses key findings and arguments that emerge from this literature. I conduct this survey and discussion in light of a wider understanding of the political economy of Indian democracy as resilient but limited in terms of substantial forms of redistribution and recognition in favour of subaltern groups. This contradiction has arguably become especially pronounced in the context of neoliberalisation, where, despite the active participation of the poor in electoral democracy, socioeconomic inequality has reached dramatic heights, and I discuss rights-based legislation as a response to this. In conclusio…
Etre reconnu : droit ou fantasme ?
2008
Valoriser la notion de reconnaissance, n’est-ce pas ceder a ce mouvement tres contemporain de revendication generalisee de l’individualisme ? Tout le monde en effet desire etre reconnu. L’interet de la notion n’apparait d’abord que negativement : a partir de l’indignation devant une injustice. Mais comment entendre ce sentiment d’injustice et le convertir en processus politique ?
China in Pakistan and the wider region: A cautious but effective leader?
2018
This article assesses China–Pakistan-Afghanistan relations in the period 2014–2018 and asks whether China has exercised distinct pressure on Pakistan to be a more constructive partner for Afghanistan. A central argument is that even as China has failed to alter Pakistan’s policies significantly in the short term it is still continuing to successfully build power and trust in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as with their neighbours to the north and west. This bodes well for China’s exercise of regional leadership in a long-term perspective.
“Cadenas de papel”. Un estudio del “Análisis de la Constitución española” (1823) de Karl-Ludwig von Haller
2016
Este trabajo pretende reconstruir la impugnacion que el polemista suizo Karl-Ludwig von Haller realizo a la Carta Magna gaditana de 1812 en su libro Analisis de la Constitucion Espanola (1823). Ademas, se estudia la segunda parte del escrito donde desenmascaro los planes de la conspiracion universal jacobina y los medios para efectuar una verdadera “restauracion”. Todo ello cotejando las dos traducciones al castellano de 1823 que demuestran la pluralidad del temprano antiliberalismo. Fecha de envio / Submission Date: 28-09-2015 Fecha de aceptacion / Acceptance Date: 30-10-2015
The Latvian referendum on Russian as a second state language, February 2012
2016
On 18 February 2012 Latvian citizens participated in a referendum on making Russian a second official (“state”) language. The proposal was rejected by three-quarters of voters. There is a complex background to language policy in Latvia, where since regaining independence in 1991 the country has promoted Latvian as the only state language, though Russian and other languages are widely used at a societal level. The language law and associated citizenship law in Latvia (as in Estonia) have received considerable commentary, with recent significant writings disagreeing strongly regarding their interpretation. These laws have also very often been criticized by both European institutions and by Ru…
Prejudice Towards Muslims: A Study among Young People in the North-West Region of Cameroon
2020
Muslims and Christians in Cameroon have coexisted for decades within a shared context, but there are no studies that seek to understand the nature of Christian–Muslim intergroup relations within th...