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The Life with Corona survey
(Elsevier, 2022-08)The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and space. Individual experiences of the pandemic are highly heterogeneous and its impacts ... -
Going, Going, Gone? Varieties of Dissent and Leader Exit
(SAGE, 2022-10-18)We examine how popular dissent affects the likelihood that political leaders lose power, distinguishing between types of dissent in terms of nonviolent/violent primary tactics as well as the level of individual participation. ... -
Life With Corona: Increased Gender Differences in Aggression and Depression Symptoms Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Burden in Germany
(Frontiers, 2021-07-27)Gender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. While rapidly emerging evidence indicates a deterioration of mental health in general, it remains unknown whether the ... -
Secessionist Conflict and Affective Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia
(SAGE, 2022-09-01)Can secessionism be a basis for affective or social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the risk of violent conflict, ... -
Do TJ Policies Cause Backlash? Evidence from Street Name Changes in Spain
(SAGE, 2021-12-13)Memories of old conflicts often shape domestic politics long after these conflicts end. Contemporary debates about past civil wars and/or repressive regimes in different parts of the world suggest that these are sensitive ... -
Africa's Lockdown Dilemma: High Poverty and Low Trust
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-01-27)As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimize viral transmission without adversely affecting the poor. This study proposes an index of lockdown readiness, taking into ... -
Control, Dispute, and Concentration of Land During Civil War: Evidence from Colombia
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-03-27)How are patterns of armed control and dispute by armed actors related to land concentration, land property rights, and distribution? We argue that armed actors affect land tenure by using different land transfer mechanisms ... -
“There Was Something Inside of Me I Needed to Let Out”: Occupied Masculinities, Emotional Expression and Rap Music in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
(SAGE, 2021-05-28)Although normative constructions of masculinity in Palestine denote emotional suppression as an idealized attribute, extreme subjugation under the grinding realities of a colonial military occupation requires that this ... -
Negotiating Gender Roles and Power Relations Through the Management of International Migrant Remittances in a Patriarchal Community in Ghana
(SAGE, 2023-03-10)This paper draws on a feminist poststructural perspective to examine gendered dimensions of sending and managing international migrant remittances in a patriarchal community in Ghana. It relies on primary data collected ... -
A Whole System Approach to Childhood Obesity: How a Supportive Environment was Created in the City of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
(Springer, 2023-04-19)Childhood obesity is a growing global challenge, and no country has yet reversed the upward trend in prevalence. The causes are multifaceted, spanning individual, societal, environmental, and political spheres. This makes ... -
Quiet Revolution? Women’s Collective Empowerment and BRAC
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-03-15)BRAC’s focus on women and community organisations in the 1970s was lauded as bringing forth “a quiet revolution.” We explore the evolution of BRAC’s selected programs that built community forums and argue that while BRAC ... -
Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda
(SAGE, 2023-03-06)This research investigates how COVID-19 has affected experiences of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income contexts. A qualitative approach was used to collect data as the pandemic progressed from 75 participants ... -
Achieving Disability Inclusive Employment – Are the Current Approaches Deep Enough?
(2022-07-29)Diverse approaches to promoting disability inclusive employment aim to transform workplaces into truly inclusive environments, usually with intervention strategies targeting two main groups: employers and jobseekers with ... -
Researching Local Subjectivities in Contested Contexts: Using Intersecting Methodologies to Understand Large Green-Energy Projects in Kenya
(SAGE, 2022-10-07)This article critically reflects on the use of an ‘intersecting methodologies’ approach to generate understanding of the diverse experiences of people living near contested large green energy projects in Kenya. Local ... -
Understanding Accountability in Practice: Obligations, Scrutiny, and Consequences
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-12-30)Attempting to increase authorities' accountability for their actions has become a mainstay of development practice in recent decades. Yet commentators suggest that these efforts have reached an impasse, in part because of ... -
Citizen Action for Accountability in Challenging Contexts: What Have we Learned?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-02-14)While much is known about how citizens mobilize and make claims for accountability in more democratic, stable, and peaceful settings, little is known about how accountability dynamics work in more challenging contexts—those ... -
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the Idea of Acceleration Through the Conflicting Temporalities of Politics and Nature Among the Sahelian Populations
(Resilience Alliance, 2023-02)In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the ... -
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-02-19)Urban food markets are essential channels of food distribution and spaces of social interaction where COVID-19 could be easily transmitted. The Peruvian government used budget incentives to motivate local governments to ... -
What Makes “Difficult” Settings Difficult? Contextual Challenges for Accountability
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-10-22)It is increasingly common for international development actors to work in difficult and fragile settings, yet much of our understanding of accountability through social and political action comes from more stable settings. ... -
Employing the Policy Capacity Framework for Health System Strengthening
(Oxford University Press, 2023-01-25)The policy capacity framework offers relevant analytical ideas that can be mobilized for health system strengthening. However, the employment of this framework in the health field constitutes a relevant interdisciplinary ...
