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This thesis analyses decentralisation processes and their effects in a non-democratic state (Kazakhstan). Decentralisation, or the transfer of authority and responsibility from central government to subnational levels, is .
This project explores and defends a basic proposition: those who participate in democratic processes should be incentivised to uncover and maintain common goods, rather than to aggregate or integrate their private interests. .
In this PhD dissertation, I explore the role of democratic theories in contexts of political reconciliation through the lens of pluriversal politics. Specifically, this work focuses on epistemic, deliberative, agonistic .
This thesis focuses on digital documentary and photojournalistic images from and of Kashmir and their circulation across different mediascapes. Since the beginning of the conflict, photography in Kashmir has emerged as a .
In my doctoral thesis, I examine and critique the interplay between the humanitarian approach to the regulation of military violence and the reproduction of war. I do this by focusing on the field of war humanisation and .
The complex relationship between sex, gender and voting behaviour is a global research preoccupation. This thesis investigates an under-researched dimension of this relationship, focusing on the dynamics of gender, voting .
This research project investigates the role of domestic normative ideas in the approaches of the European Union (EU) and China in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism (DSM). Scholars have .
How does a government persuade young people to stay in farming? This is a question that is very relevant around the world today. The Indonesian government has been making well-funded targeted policies since 2013. This .
This research engages with and contributes to political economy scholarship and broader academic research on the energy sector in the Global South. It uses anthropological methods to contribute to the social science .
This dissertation aims at developing a theory of right-holding not based on the concept of the sovereign individual, but based on the concept of the Confucian moral individual. The failure of the Will and Interest theories .
In sharp contrast to the preceding four decades of quiet and conservative approach to sovereign wealth management, since 2015 Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) proactively drives a nation-building project .
Wellbeing, and particularly subjective wellbeing or happiness, has come to the fore in international development rhetoric since 2000. Making the promotion of human wellbeing the principal goal of public policy and using .
This project explores and defends a seemingly simple proposition: if democracy is to be radical, the democratization of work should be a priority. Two contrasting observations motivate this exploration. The first is that .
The 20-year-long US war in Afghanistan, which started in 2001 and ended in 2021, resulted in significant civilian casualties, US military deaths and financial costs. This protracted war raised the question of why the war .
Social ignorance is widely recognised in scholarly literatures as a substantive epistemic practice, stemming from dominant socioepistemic standpoints that cultivate systematic insensitivities to historical structures of .
This thesis begins by reviewing the author’s published work, which sought to describe and account for the nature of leadership in local government, based on long-term engagement with socio-professional networks of UK Chief .
This thesis examines the deep structure of South Africa’s legislative budget decision-making process, in an attempt to understand how political and budgeting institutions coexist to shape the behaviour of actors and influence .
To this day, legal statelessness is surprisingly undertheorised in political theory. While there has recently been a resurgence of scholarship on the topic, no one has yet offered a formal typology of statelessness. This .
This thesis examines lithium supply and trade in the Atacama Desert in Chile from stances of social studies of markets. It focuses on the contracts held between mining companies and the Chilean State that establish terms .
Human trafficking is an international phenomenon that has been given more attention by governments, law enforcement, and NGOs as the world has continued to globalise. As a result, numerous combative human trafficking .
