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Altering the foreign aid equation
Ali Salman is Founder and Executive Director of the Policy Research Institute of Market Economy in Islamabad, and is studying on the IPR's Professional Doctorate programme. The West has spent US$2.3 trillion on foreign aid over the last five decades...
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Colin Crouch: The familiar axes of politics are changing, with momentous consequences
The familiar axes of politics are changing, with momentous consequences, argues Colin Crouch From the time of the French Revolution, mass politics has revolved around two core conflicts: that between preferences for more or less economic inequality; and that between...
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Drug and alcohol-related deaths: What of those left behind?
Dr Christine Valentine is Research Associate in the University of Bath's Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), part of the Department of Social and Policy Sciences. According to popular wisdom death is the great leveller, affirming our common humanity whatever...
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Who wants to be superior? The psychogenesis of xenophobia and radical Islam in Germany
Dr Alim Baluch is Teaching Fellow in German Politics & Society at the University of Bath's Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies. In July 2016, Germany was struck to the core by a wave of terrorist attacks; two were carried out...
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Defending the indefensible: France, the burkini affair and the further mainstreaming of racism
Dr Aurelien Mondon is Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses predominantly on elite discourse and the mainstreaming of far-right politics, particularly through the use of populism and racism. In the aftermath...
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Policymaking, Citizenship and Democracy in a Complex World
Professor Graham Room is Director of Research and Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath Complexity Science Recent decades have seen a dramatic growth in the literature on complex systems. Much of this...
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Trump and the "alt-right": a brief reader
Donald Trump’s candidacy for the US Presidency, and in particular his recent appointment of Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of the right-wing media site Breitbart to head up his campaign, has brought fresh attention to the so-called “alt-right” in America....
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No Utopian solution for future funding, but partnership offers a fighting chance
Professor Chick Wilson, Department of Chemistry There is no point in hiding from the truth; an already difficult and complex situation for research funding became significantly more complicated following the Brexit vote in June. We must not lose track of...
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The under 30s in the UK: A generation used to not getting what they voted for
Dr Benjamin Bowman, Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies The EU Referendum underlined a clear disconnect between the ruling elites and the electorate, writes Benjamin Bowman. Disappointment with political choices is particularly marked among...
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Culture comes first: putting culture and values at the centre of public policy
Stephen Muers is Head of Strategy and Market Development at Big Society Capital. This blog post is based on his time as one of IPR's Visiting Policy Fellows while in his previous role as Director of Criminal Justice Policy at...
