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Network Propaganda Open
This book examines the shape, composition, and practices of the United States political media landscape. It explores the roots of the current epistemic crisis in political communication with a focus on the remarkable 2016 U.S. president el…
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Bolsonaro and Brazil's Illiberal Backlash Open
On 28 October 2018, far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro captured Brazil's presidency following a highly polarized runoff election against Workers' Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad. Multiple crises that have afflicted Brazil since 2013 an…
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Discursive Deflection: Accusation of “Fake News” and the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation in the Tweets of President Trump Open
Twitter is increasingly being used within the sociopolitical domain as a channel through which to circulate information and opinions. Throughout the 2016 US Presidential primaries and general election campaign, a notable feature was the pr…
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The Relation between Media Consumption and Misinformation at the Outset of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in the US Open
A US national probability-based survey during the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 spread in the US showed that, above and beyond respondents’ political party, mainstream broadcast media use (e.g., NBC News) correlated with accurate informatio…
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An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States Open
The 2016 presidential election was a jarring event for polling in the United States. Preelection polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton’s likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging…
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Why America's Grand Strategy Has Not Changed: Power, Habit, and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment Open
Why has U.S. grand strategy persisted since the end of the Cold War? Despite shocks such as the 2008 global financial crisis and the costs of the war in Iraq—circumstances that ought to have stimulated at least a revision—the United States…
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U.S.-China Trade War and Its Global Impacts Open
With high growth rates during the past two decades and the largest trade surplus with the United States, China is the primary target of the U.S. trade war efforts. Tariffs are the first shot in bilateral tensions that are multilateralizing…
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Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump Presidency Open
Is American democracy under threat? The question is more prominent in political debate now than at any time in recent memory. However, it is also too blunt; there is widespread recognition that democracy is multifaceted and that backslidin…
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The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative Analysis Open
To many observers across the political spectrum, American democracy appears under threat. What does the Trump presidency portend for American politics? How much confidence should we have in the capacity of American institutions to withstan…
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The power of Trump-speak: populist crisis narratives and ontological security Open
For most observers, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States (US) came as a shock. This has been widely recast as the culmination of the American public’s long-standing dissatisfaction with the political elit…
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Gender and Representation in Latin America Open
In the past thirty years, women’s representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in gender equality in political offices, whereas others have not, and even within…
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Bloodied Democracy: Duterte and the Death of Liberal Reformism in the Philippines Open
Since assuming the presidency, Rodrigo R. Duterte has “stuck to his guns” in carrying out his campaign pledge to launch a violent anti-drug campaign. Duterte's presidency was preceded by six years of political stability and high growth und…
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Juncker's political European Commission and an EU in crisis Open
This article investigates the European Commission under the Presidency of Jean‐Claude Juncker during a time of acute crisis in the European Union. It asks what it means for Juncker to preside over a ‘political Commission’, following his ap…
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American hybrid: Donald Trump and the strange merger of populism and plutocracy Open
Any effort to situate Trump’s ascendance in the broader currents of cross‐national developments, or in the longer course of American political development, must begin by recognizing it as a curious hybrid of populism and plutocracy. Althou…
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Populism and President Trump’s approach to foreign policy: An analysis of tweets and rally speeches Open
Much like his candidacy, Donald Trump’s presidency has been described as populist par excellence and as fundamentally breaking with the liberal internationalist tradition of American foreign policy. Despite a growing interest in populism a…
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Tax and fiscal policies after the COVID-19 crisis Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant deterioration in public finances, adding to pre-existing strains from long-term structural challenges including population ageing, climate change, rising inequality, digitalisation and automat…
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EQUALITY VS. EQUITY Open
“There’s a big difference between equality and equity,” said now Vice President Kamala Harris as she ran for the presidency of the United States, and many millions watched and shared her video, which depicted one mountain climber who start…
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Golfing with Trump. Social capital, decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US Open
In 2000, Robert Putnam forecast that United States (US) democracy was at risk from the twin challenges of declining civic engagement and rising interpersonal inequality. Sixteen years later, his predictions were vindicated by the election …
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Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding Open
The Trump presidency generated concern about democratic backsliding and renewed interest in measuring the national democratic performance of the United States. However, the US has a decentralized form of federalism that administers democra…
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Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism Open
The present research investigates the associations between holding favorable views of potential Democratic or Republican candidates for the US presidency 2016 and seeing profoundness in bullshit statements. In this contribution, bullshit i…
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Latinos & Racism in the Trump Era Open
This essay examines the roots, causes, and effects of racism experienced by Latinos in the Trump era. We argue that Trump and his administration were not the origin of Latinos' experiences of racism, but his rise to power was, in part, der…
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Governing through Killing: The War on Drugs in the Philippines Open
This article focuses on the war on drugs in the Philippines in order to explore issues related to extra-judicial killing, which remains common in many countries that have abolished the death penalty and in many more that retain it but seld…
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Roy Jenkins and the European Commission Presidency, 1976 –1980 Open
Roy Jenkins brought great talent to Europe's top job. He played a key role in re-launching European monetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothing Greece's path to EC membership. But he fell short o…
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Broadcasting agitainment: a new media strategy of Putin’s third presidency Open
This article argues that accounts of the Russian media system that tend to view the time from Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in 2000 as a single homogenous period do not capture major qualitative shifts in state-controlled media coverage. …
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In the wake of Paris Agreement, scientists must embrace new directions for climate change research Open
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Conference Diplomacy: The Making of the Paris Agreement Open
The article offers an insider’s account of how the Paris Agreement on climate change was reached. Focusing on participation and ambition, it describes the efforts to include a long-term temperature goal, expectations for regular ratcheting…
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Between the bear and the dragon: multivectorism in Kazakhstan as a model strategy for secondary powers Open
Kazakhstan has followed a foreign policy of multivector diplomacy since its independence from the former Soviet Union. While multivectorism was a strategy of necessity in its early years, it has evolved to empower Kazakhstan to effectively…
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‘Harder’ soft governance in the European Energy Union Open
In 2016, the Commission proposed an ambitious governance strategy in order to further the transformation of the European energy system towards the Unions' 2030 climate and energy targets. Therein the EU adopted the Regulation on the Govern…
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Does Donald Trump have a grand strategy? Open
Six months into the Trump presidency, scholars and pundits are already speculating whether the president has developed a ‘doctrine’ or, more expansively, a ‘grand strategy’. No doubt, unfolding events—in Asia, the Middle East and possibly …
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The Influence of Mentorship and Role Models on University Women Leaders’ Career Paths to University Presidency Open
While the literature concerning female administrators in higher education indicates the critical role that mentors and role models play in contributing to women’s professional advancement, the relationship between mentorship and women’s at…