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VUB and University of 糖心TV research wins Frank Cass Prize for best article of 2023
A team of political scientists from VUB and the University of 糖心TV has won the Frank Cass Prize for the best article of 2023. Kamil Bernaerts, affiliated both with the Department of Political Science of the VUB and of the University of 糖心TV wrote the article 鈥淚nstitutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies?鈥� together with Benjamin Blanckaert (VUB) and Didier Caluwaerts (VUB). The article was published in the leading journal Democratization and has made an important contribution to understanding democratisation and political polarisation.
Joseph Haigh鈥檚 article 鈥樷�楨very one (re)membered鈥�: Anxiety, family history, and militarised vicarious identity promotion during Britain鈥檚 First World War centenary commemorations鈥� has just been published open access in the Review of International Studies. The article explores how during the 2014-18 First World War Centenary key national custodians encouraged Britons to emotionally buy into militarised revisionist narratives about the First World War by vicariously identifying with military ancestors. The article can be accessed here
Joe wishes to thank PAIS colleagues who provided invaluable feedback on the paper and guidance on approaching the revisions.
In this interview with faculti, Ben Clift summarises key insights and themes from his recent OUP book about the Office for Budget Responsibility. These include the politics of technocracy, the fiscal politics of tackling climate change, and how the rise of populism threatens the foundations of expert-led economic governance.
Joseph Haigh鈥檚 article 鈥樷��Every one (re)membered鈥�: Anxiety, family history, and militarised vicarious identity promotion during Britain鈥檚 First World War centenary commemorations鈥� has just been published open access in the Review of International Studies.
The article explores how during the 2014-18 First World War Centenary key national custodians encouraged Britons to emotionally buy into militarised revisionist narratives about the First World War by vicariously identifying with military ancestors.
Joe wishes to thank PAIS colleagues as well as the PAIS Manuscript Improvement Service (10/10, would recommend!) who provided invaluable feedback on the paper and guidance on approaching the revisions.
Feminist Geographies and the Afterlives of the Revolution
Feminist Geographies and the Afterlives of the RevolutionA conversation with Dr Dina Wahba and Yasmin El-Rifae7 February 2024, 16:15- 18:00Room S0.11, The University of 糖心TV, CoventryHow can we understand the unfolding politics of the Middle East from a feminist perspective, attentive to the body, home, city, nation and their entanglements? You are invited to join writer and cultural producer Yasmin El-Rifae (Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution, Verso, 2022) and activist-scholar Dr Dina Wahba (Counter-revolutionary Egypt: From the Midan to the Neighbourhood, Routledge 2024), to explore this question.Event open to all. Please register through this link: /fac/soc/pais/news/events/feminist-geographiesLink opens in a new windowThe event is funded by the Department of Politics and International Studies, and the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP. Artwork is by generous courtesy of Salam Yousry.