Professor of European political economy, Cardiff University. Essayist. Dislikes partisans, likes paradoxes. Two books with Manchester University Press.
Cardiff, UK
Joined November 2012
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In Beyond Woke and Anti-Woke, we plot a third way between liberals who deny the existence of social justice ideology and anti-woke polemicists who fail to use academic methods.
This area deserves a serious research agenda.
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The decline of Reform and the Greens has been this year's most welcome political development; Labour look strong.
Indeed and think how much quicker things would be too. Sometimes, the glacial pace of peer reviews forces early career researchers out of the sector...
We should rethink the role of human judgment in the review process. Human expert should have a role, but it's no longer about writing 1,500-word essays to summarize findings, check proofs, and so on.
On top of that, any journal that forbids AI usage in the review process should reconsider their position.
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Interesting and timely new dataset available, tho if you are seeking to generalize from this,
1) the selection of cases may potentially err on the side of confirmation bias and
2) "extremism" is defined as anti-democratic not anti-regime. But...we may steal some questions for the next wave of the WVS. Open access:
nature.com/articles/s41597-0β¦
On Thursday, I'm participating in a freedom of speech roundtable event in Cardiff. If you're about, do try to make it π
Whatever one thinks of The Canary, this feels like the end of an era. Remember how influential the site was from about 2015-19? Another Angry Voice was a similar site which people shared all the time and, ahem, had some interesting takes.
On which I agreed there were problems in universities, but also defended the sector...
"The Corruption of the University?" a Battle of Ideas @acadofideas discussion with @SehgalCuthbert @NigelBiggar @Furedibyte @johnarmstrong5 @prossertj and Tess Ashen #BattleFest
Yes, a good decision; the opening ceremony is non-political and the poem is unambiguously political.
In the cases of both Nathan Cofnas and Sally Rooney, some people argued that Cofnas and Rooney's opposition to the freedom of speech of others meant they should lose their own freedom of speech.
But liberal-democratic rights don't work like this; they're universal!
Sally Rooney's books withdrawn from UK sale over her support for Palestine Action; this seems to be a basic infringement of freedom of speech/artistic freedom?!?
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@patricksturg - I would be very, very worried about Saturday!
Not good! And earlier this year, the prestigious V-Dem index also downgraded US liberal democracy...
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π¨ New publication alert: Do Americans change their attitudes toward "culture war" groups when these groups shift how they vote in presidential elections?
In a word, π§π¨. π An important case of null results, we find no clear shift in attitudes, either for better or for worse.
Posted about football yesterday and had forgotten *quite* how acutely supporting a team skews one's ability to reason about matters of justice. The movement of political engagement towards the model of football fandom continues to be very alarming!