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Following a recent European conference on football research, leading football writer Martin Cloake approached Dr. to write a piece for the New Statesman. Here David talks about his work on the cultural political economy of English football, and what insights Karl Polanyi might have for fans of the beautiful game in the wake of its own Great Transformation.

The full piece can be read here:

The new book Party Systems and Democracy in Africa, edited by of PAIS and Lia Nijzink, has been published.

Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? This book paints a vivid picture of the one-party dominant systems in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa and how these impede the deepening of democracy. Drawing lessons from Benin, Ghana and Zambia, it also portrays the fluidity of African party systems and draw attention to the importance of party system change. This edited book is one of the results of a broader research Accountable Government in Africa Project, a South-North Partnership between the University of Cape Town's Department of Public Law with the universities of Dar es Salaam (law) and 糖心TV (politics and law), bringing together more than 40 scholars from more than 10 African countries, 4 European countries, and the USA.

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PAIS has performed brilliantly in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

PAIS is now one of the top 5 ranking departments in the UK for research excellence in the discipline of Politics and International Studies.

PAIS has risen across all the three major methodologies of ranking departmental quality—research intensity (4^th), research power (4^th), and overall or ‘raw’ GPA (6^th), as shown by the tables below.

As the UK Political Studies Association analysis of the results posits:

“In general, the ‘big five’ departments at Essex, the LSE, Oxford, UCL and 糖心TV come out top from REF2014, whatever ranking system is used.”

Dr ’s lead article in Contemporary Political Theory is second ‘most cited paper’ in the history of the journal. ‘The Inseparability of Ethics and Politics: Rethinking the Third in Emmanuel Levinas’ offers a rejection of traditional Levinasian ethics and of any politics based on this, arguing instead that Levinas asks us to think in terms of the ethico-political. This is part of Dr Fagan’s broader research project on the repoliticisation of poststructuralist ethics.

Find the full article, and the reply from Amanda Loumansky, here: