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Fostering media literacy: a systematic evidence review of intervention effectiveness for diverse target groups
No full textInvestigating the effectiveness of media literacy interventions is essential to identify the most promising programs. This 2022 systematic evidence review, guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline, aimed to collect and synthesize scientific evidence on effective media literacy intervention programs across different target groups and the used frameworks. A comprehensive search across major scientific databases (Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and Education Resources Information Centre) and rigorous screening and coding processes identified 119 studies on media literacy intervention effectiveness and outcomes. This review offers valuable insights into the current state of media literacy intervention research, emphasizing the importance of considering diverse target groups and exploring a wide range of outcomes to enhance our understanding of these interventions’ impact
Lobbying global venues: sitting in or speaking out?
No full textUnderstanding interest groups' participation in global policy processes is critical not least because of an increasing shift in policy‐making powers to global institutions. This paper contributes to existing research by examining advocacy efforts at the global level and proposing a novel argument linking the degree of policy complexity and the amount of groups' resources to lobbying strategies. Specifically, it argues that interest groups invest in both inside (“sitting in”) and outside (“speaking up”) lobbying strategies when the policy at stake is complex and they have more resources. This theory is tested using extensive and novel data spanning interest groups' lobbying efforts on global Internet privacy regulation
The royal touch: consecration, self-legitimation, and nation building through royal events, 1870-1949
No full textHow has the British monarchy navigated social change in a period that increasingly questioned the legitimacy of its hereditary power? Previous studies have examined British royals’ frontstage behaviour through the lenses of media representation, majestic royal events, or public perceptions of the monarchy. Instead, this study focuses on the unexplored phenomenon of royals’ selfpublicised daily behaviour. Using advanced quantitative and computational techniques to create a longitudinal dataset of events (N = 150,806), this thesis analyses the Court Circular, the monarchapproved official diary of royal activities published daily in The Times since 1803. This thesis focuses on three aspects of royals’ behaviour. First, drawing upon Kantorowicz’ theory of the king’s two bodies, I examine royals’ interactions with society and find that the royals shifted from publicising their private and leisure-oriented activities to showcasing their constitutional and nation-building bodies. Victorian royal activities centred exclusively on aristocrats before expanding their ties to public officials and the military. By the early 20th century, the monarchy stopped obeying to the peerage etiquette in the frequency of interactions with different peerage ranks, selectively including aristocrats in leisure contexts through patters of segregated inclusion. Second, I examine the geography of royals’ publicised behaviour across Britain. I demonstrate that, in an act of what I term ‘royal touch’ nationalism (building upon Bloch’s concept), royals sporadically visited most of the United Kingdom, but the majority of their engagements remained concentrated in the South of England and London, symbolically consolidating an Anglo-centred union. Finally, looking at the relationship between royal interactions and individuals’ career and title mobility, I find that the monarchy acted simultaneously as a consecrating agent for those already established, a title accelerator for aristocrats, and a career propulsor in the professions that remained strongholds of the patrician elite. This thesis contributes to the sociology of elites, the sociology of nationalism, and historical sociology by putting the monarchy back into sociological debates on status and power
In solidarity, under suspicion: the British far left from 1956
No full textIn solidarity, under suspicion is the successor volume to Against the grain (2014) and Waiting for the revolution (2017), complementing analysis of the far left in Britain from 1956 until the present. In addition to new scholarship on hitherto under-researched groups and movements, the volume explores recent findings from the Undercover Policing Inquiry and provides historical context for developments in the British left during and after 'Corbynism'. Chapters consider the far left's relationship to the state as well as to the Labour Party, and highlights attempts by far-left groups and activists both to intervene internationally and to transform themselves. With a range of different perspectives - activist and academic - In solidarity, under suspicion draws out the distinct ways that different far left groups and movements have responded to problems which remain salient today
Digital innovation
No full textThe technological breakthroughs of the last few decades establish the conditions under which diverse items, resources, and operations are made increasingly fungible and combinable with one another. We link this wider ecology of recombination to the formation of what we call layered modular architectures whereby content, apps, software, and hardware can be brought to recombinant configurations that cross the boundaries of established products and industries and redefine the rigid divide between upstream design and downstream use. These developments, we suggest, qualify and expand the longstanding understanding of innovation as recombinant. We extend these ideas to include the examination of the critical importance that data have recently acquired. We consider the functions which digital data perform in a variety of contexts, including organizations, markets, societal sectors, and the training of AI systems. We contrast the analytic and narrative nature of innovation brought about and through data with innovation driven by layered modular architectures and recombination and provide a few directions along which these two rather different paradigms of innovation could be approached and likely reconciled
Which 'coalition'?
No full textCoalitions emerge when people must cooperate to generate mutually desired outcomes, which may please some much more than others. They therefore arise in a wide variety of settings, from major international conflicts to committee infighting. This book focusses on government coalitions in parliamentary democracies, but we still need to consider quite a few different types of coalitions: intra-party coalitions of factions, legislative coalitions supporting minority executives and executive coalitions. Coalitions may form to allocate a fixed “prize”, such as seats at the cabinet table. Much more commonly, they involve the need to make policy decisions that affect different people in different ways. Basic coalition models often predict chaotic cycling around a set of possible outcomes, which we rarely observe in practice. Therefore, empirically realistic models typically introduce institutional or normative “frictions” which enable the emergence of stable outcomes from the politics of coalition
Ventotene manifesto: why European politicians are arguing over a 1941 document written by a group of imprisoned Italian antifascists
Get PDFMonetary Unions with Heterogeneous Fiscal Space
No full textOnline appendix and replication files for "Monetary Unions with Heterogeneous Fiscal Space", Published in the Journal of International Economics, 2025, by Marco Bellifemine, Adrien Couturier, and Rustam Jamilov
Replication Data for: Energy Policy Preferences in Times of Crisis - Evidence from survey experiments in the UK
No full textUnderstanding public support for energy policy is crucial for designing feasible interventions to mitigate climate change and reach net-zero goals. This is particularly the case given the increased salience surrounding energy policy in light of the major disruptions to global energy markets generated by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Combining framing and conjoint experiments, I examine how framing and policy design shape public support for energy policy responses to this crisis in the UK. Results show that the public has strong preferences over specific policy features, supporting investment in renewables, reductions of energy imports from Russia and non-democracies, and policies that shield vulnerable groups. While security framing increases support for energy policy, its effect is smaller than that of policy design, and it has little impact on policy design preferences overall. The findings suggest that substantive policy designs remain crucial for generating public acceptance of energy policy, even in times of crisis