Scholarly Works - Politics and International Studies
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The Politics of Financing the Highway Boom in China: For Whom the Road Tolls Rise
(University of California Press, 2018-06-21)Fiscal federalism has provided the institutional basis for the rapid highway boom in China for three decades, creating a close linkage between subnational investment and revenue claims on tolled roads. This model of ... -
Founding the World State: H. G. Wells on Empire and the English-Speaking Peoples
(Oxford University Press, 2018-12-01)Herbert George Wells was one of the leading public intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Most famous today as a founder of modern science fiction, he was once known throughout the world as a visionary ... -
‘Techno-populism’ as a new party family: the case of the Five Star Movement and Podemos
(2018-05-04)Democratic politics in Southern Europe has been shaken by the emergence of two new political parties: the Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy and Podemos in Spain. Both were initially dismissed as ‘protest’ movements, tied ... -
The Power of the “Audience-Public”: Interactive Radio in Africa
The convergence of newer digital communication technologies with more established radio and television broadcasts is shifting opportunities for news media to impact upon citizen-state relations. These nascent possibilities ...
