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Anandi Mani, Associate Professor of Economics, is one of the authors of a study on women’s political representation and its effect on crime in India. As the government reserves for women a third of all seats in local government institutions like the village council, the researchers sought to find out whether having female political leaders at the local level would have a positive effect on women. Instead, they found that the reported number of crimes against women rose. Ms. Mani explained in an e-mail interview with India Ink why that’s not bad news.

In the light of the most recent House of Lords reform failure, Dr John Parkinson from the Department of Politics and International Studies explains how, 'by taking on a battle they had no realistic hope of winning, the liberals have probably scuppered their chances of making less dramatic but very significant deliberative changes'

Why has China succeeded where Russia failed? Professor Mark Harrison from the Economics Department explores how each communist nation approached economic recovery and finds that whilst the results differed greatly, their methods were the same. This raises an important question: will the same recipe of success continue to work for China?

Professor Steve Roper is Associate Dean and Director of the Centre for SMEs at WBS. He guest edited the Entrepreneur page of the Financial Times Money supplement, published on Saturday 28 July. He is also author of an opinion piece on the challenges of ensuring that the UK's mid-market businesses do not continue to miss out on growth opportunities.

Today, July 9, 2012, marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the African Union, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity. Here Professor Franklyn Lisk, from the University of 糖心TV's Centre of Study for Globalisation/Regionalisation, takes a look back at the work the AU has done, and what it now needs to focus on