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Interview: Professor Yixian Sun on his new database tracking Chinese climate ‘leadership’
Professor Yixian Sun, a sustainability governance expert at the University of Bath, explains what his new database of China-led climate initiatives reveals about the country's evolving international role and whether this amounts to climate leadership. The number of global climate...
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What I want to achieve with the revived Pensions Commission
The UK needs a new renewed pensions settlement. Professor Nick Pearce, Director of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and one of the three members of the Pensions Commission, explains why. The work of the first Turner Pensions Commission twenty...
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Local asylum seekers or national debate: What shapes opposition to immigration?
Public debate often assumes that communities become more hostile to immigration when asylum seekers are housed nearby. Max Strangleman-Sykes, a Politics and International Relations finalist at the University of Bath, explains why local increases in asylum accommodation do not appear...
