Constitutional Law (Books and Journals)
- British Journal of Politics and International Relations From No. 1-1, April 1999 to No. 25-4, November 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Political Insight From No. 1-1, April 2010 to No. 14-1, March 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Political Studies From No. 1-1, February 1953 to No. 71-1, February 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Political Studies Review From No. 1-1, January 2003 to No. 21-2, May 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Politics From No. 1-1, April 1981 to No. 43-1, February 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Teaching Public Administration From No. 1-3, March 1977 to No. 41-1, March 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Renewable Energy from Wind and Solar Power by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2021
- The Modern Law Review From No. 1-1, June 1937 to No. 83-6, November 2020 Wiley, 2021
- Public Rights of Way: The Essential Law by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- Advocacy - A Practical Guide by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- How Judges Decide Cases: Reading, Writing and Analysing Judgments. 2nd Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2018
- Assets of Community Value. Law and Practice by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2017
- Restrictions on the Use of Land by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2016
- Enquiries of Local Authorities and Water Companies: A Practical Guide - 6th Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2016
- Vexatious Litigants and Civil Restraint Orders. A Practitioner's Handbook by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2014
- A Practitioner's Guide to Mental Health Law by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2014
- The Law of Political Donations by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2012
- Bringing Justice Home. The Road to Final Appellate and Regional Court Establishment by: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008
- In Focus: Is Inequality Inevitable? The ‘Northern European Model’ Suggests Not
- Convert, Cooperate, or Condemn: What Could the Labour Left Do Now?
- ’It Takes Two to Do The Trust Tango’: Politicians’ Trust Perceptions and Why They Matter
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Who’s in charge? The impact of delivery and perception of risk on the willingness to voting online
What makes voters more or less willing to vote online? This article uses a unique survey experiment to assess the effect of information about who delivers the online ballot; and which groups of voters are more likely to take up the option of online voting. Voters are much more favourable if it is associated with a public body than a well-regarded private sector company. We also find a clear...
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Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations
Multilateral cooperation in international organisations is characterised by regime complexity. The literature usually adopts a policy-focused perspective studying the properties, effects, and dynamics within given regime complexes for different policy areas. Yet few accounts of why states drive regime complexity have been provided in the literature. Therefore, we adopt a state-focused perspective
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Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership
The result of the Brexit referendum and its effect on subsequent UK elections have attracted a large amount of media and scholarly interest, but there has been minimal research into gender and voting behaviour at the referendum. Similarly, gendered differences in Euroscepticism have had little attention. This article seeks to understand how attitudes towards the European Union vary by age and...
- Technocratic Ministers in Office in European Countries (2000–2020): What’s New?
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Ideologically consistent, but for whom? An empirical assessment of the populism-elitism-pluralism set of attitudes and the moderating role of political sophistication
Scholars who study populism from an ‘ideational approach’ consider populism as a set of ideas based on a moralised anti-establishment thinking and a strong people-centrist view of politics. From this perspective, at a theoretical level, populist attitudes have the following two main contrasts: pluralism and elitism. In this article, we investigate the ideological consistency of the populism-plural
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity
Do salient normative claims about politics require moral premises? Political moralists think they do, political realists think they do not. We defend the viability of realism in a two-pronged way. First, we show that a number of recent attacks on realism as well as realist responses to those attacks unduly conflate distinctly political normativity and non-moral political normativity. Second, we...
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Personalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe
Top civil society organisations (CSOs) face a particular legitimacy dilemma as they need to have leaders who are seen as legitimate by the elite groups they interact with, and by those they represent. This article investigates how they handle this dilemma by studying legitimation practices of newly appointed leaders. Based on Weber’s theory of authority and Pitkin’s theory of representation, the...
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Does the Election Winner–Loser Gap Extend to Subjective Health and Well-Being?
Political scientists have studied extensively the gap between winners and losers of democratic elections with regard to satisfaction with democracy. We ask whether the winner–loser gap extends beyond the political domain to subjective health and well-being as well. Building on insights from biology and coalitional psychology, we hypothesize that winning and losing elections could affect one’s...
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Race, capital and the British migration–development nexus
Over the past 20 years, migration and development policy have been connected in British politics in two overlapping ways – one argument is centred on migration being used for development, the other using aid to reduce migration. In this article, I argue that two seemingly contradictory policy configurations – development and migration – and the different articulations of their relationship –...
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Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy
As discussions of a ‘new cold war’ between China and the West intensify, it has never been more important to understand how China engages internationally. Crucially, as of 2022, China has established 110 ‘strategic partnerships’, without stipulating any formal treaty of alliance, but we know little about strategic partnerships and how China uses them, despite their centrality as a foreign policy...
- Commissioned Book Review: Marija Aleksovska, Under Watchful Eyes: Experimental Studies on Accountability and Decision-Making Behaviour in the Public Sector
- Commissioned Book Review: Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism
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Pride and prejudice: Chinese citizens’ evaluations of democracy in the United States, India and Taiwan
How citizens in authoritarian regimes evaluate the practice of democracy in both new and established democracies has important implications on the prospect of democratisation in their own country. As an authoritarian country with the largest population around the world, China has resisted waves of democratisation and maintains the one-party rule. This study examined the Chinese case and explored...
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Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012
In 2012, David Cameron met the Dalai Lama. In retaliation for the meeting, China froze bilateral relations for 18 months. Subsequently, Cameron pledged to have no more meetings with the Dalai Lama and reiterated British recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. For some, China used economic punishment to extract the UK’s concession. For others, China used only diplomatic punishment. This...
- Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile
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The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science
Contemporary political theory demonstrates a turn towards data-sensitive research. Waldron, Shapiro, Carens, Blau and Floyd emphasise the importance of grounding political theory in empirical data. Political scientists developed methods aimed at improving the ways in which political institutions are studied. What can empirical political theory borrow from this literature, that would advance its...
- Beyond Orange and Green: The Politics of Northern Ireland’s ‘Neithers’
- China: Misfit Maker
- Do All Political Careers Really End in Failure?
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COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation
The equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the most important tests of global cooperation that the world has faced in recent decades. Collectively, global leaders failed that crucible abysmally, creating a ‘vaccine apartheid’ that divided the world according to income into countries with widespread access and those without. Why, given that leaders were fully aware of the risks and...
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Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity
The COVID-19 global pandemic is understood to be a multidimensional crisis, and yet undertheorised is how it reinforced the politics of dehumanisation. This article proposes an original framework that explains how dehumanisation undermines the human dignity of individuals with minoritised socio-economic identities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The framework identifies four interrelated mechanisms
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How Much Data for the Political Theorist? On the Argumentative Normative Behaviourism
Jonathan Floyd’s work explores the ways in which political theory can use empirical data to answer a fundamental question: what is the best kind of a contemporary regime? The goals of the current article are to understand Floyd’s important argument, to clarify the argument’s main attributes, and to suggest that the argument cannot rely solely on empirical data: even if all the conditions that are
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Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic
This article introduces an analytical framework to trace and compare leaders’ different types of behaviours to the health crisis posed by COVID-19, following the analytical benefits of Leadership Trait Analysis. It examines Boris Johnson’s and Nicola Sturgeon’s diverging initial responses to the pandemic’s onset. We employ the Leadership Trait Analysis to shed light on three main differences in...
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A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions
Gaining an understanding of the concerns and aspirations of a country’s diaspora can help domestic politicians to better connect with this community and gain their support in elections. The United Kingdom’s diaspora is large and spread among many countries, and currently has the right to vote in UK general elections only for a limited time. However, there are proposals to abolish these time...
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Why Normative Behaviourism Fails
Starting from Jonathan Floyd’s contrast between ‘mentalism’ and ‘behaviourism’, I argue that, in general, we cannot make sense of a person’s behaviour without also understanding the thinking behind it. Floyd claims that ‘mentalist’ political philosophy is undercut by inconsistency and disagreement in people’s political judgements, but the evidence suggests otherwise. The public does not divide up
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The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War
Autocratic leaders rely on intelligence machineries for regime and personal security. They often manage large, powerful, unaccountable organisations, which they hold close. But, despite their close relationship with - and reliance upon - intelligence, autocrats also frequently struggle to use it to enhance decision-making and foreign policy, and consequently suffer avoidable intelligence failures.
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‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances
Given that South Korea is a reliant consumer of the United States’ ‘strategic intelligence’ concerning North Korea’s imminent threat, this article assumes an asymmetric market for trading such information between the two allied states. Based on the autonomy–security trade-off model, South Korea may purchase the United States’ strategic intelligence about North Korea’s threat at the cost of its...