Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies
status: Published online
Canada’s Prospects in the Indo-Pacific
As Canada looks to strengthen its presence in Asia, the government’s Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) provides an important framework for guiding grand narratives on policy. Yet the document’s broad language raises questions around its pragmatism and how the strategy can be operationalized. To do so, Canada must work at bringing new ideas, be regionally...
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination
status: Published online
The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions
Abstract: We study the drivers of refugees' decision making about returning home using observational and experimental data from a survey of 3,003 Syrian refugees in Lebanon. We find that the conditions in refugee-hosting countries play a minor role. In contrast, conditions in a refugee's home country are the main drivers of return intentions. Even ...
How Do Voters Evaluate Performance in Opposition?
status: accepted
Migrant-focused inequity, distrust and an erosion of care within Sweden's healthcare and media discourses during COVID-1...
Published in Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Despite initial suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone equally, it quickly became clear that some were much worse affected than others. Marginalization—including poverty, substandard accommodation, precarious or no employment, reduced access to healthcare and other key public goods—was clearly correlated with higher rates of both ...
A systematic review of population and patient perspectives and experiences as measured in Latin American and Caribbean s...
High-quality health systems must provide accessible, people-centred care to both improve health and maintain population trust in health services. Furthermore, accurate measurement of population perspectives is vital to hold health systems accountable and to inform improvement efforts. To describe the current state of such measures in Latin America ...
Misperceptions and Minipublics: Does Endorsement of Expert Information by a Minipublic Influence Misperceptions in the W...
status: published
Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold
Ongoing nuclear modernization programs in Russia, China, and the USA have reopened longstanding debates among scholars concerning whether tailored nuclear weapons are likely to have destabilizing consequences for international security. Without data to adjudicate this debate, however, these discussions have remained entirely theoretical. In this ar...
Donald Trump’s contribution to the study of politics and the life sciences
If the life sciences are to have much to say about politics, there needs to be a universal element to political orientations. In this essay, I argue that the recent prominence of nativist, law-and-order, populist politicians reveals the nature of this universal element. All social units have to address bedrock dilemmas about how to deal with norm v...
