My article "The More Things Change" has now come out in World Politics.
I say more in the quoted thread, but I just wanted to add that this article - while dealing with some serious issues - was a really engaging and rewarding piece to work on.
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The April issue is online! Authors include Alexander Baturo & @rgolar23.bsky.social; Kaitlyn Chriswell; @dyzenhaus.bsky.social; Lauren Honig, @adamsharris.bsky.social, & Ellen Lust; Yue Hou & Jieun Kim. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56725 #autocrats #crime #land #gender #law #SouthAfrica #Malawi #China #Mexico
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It's largely based off of the dissertation theory, which may be more helpful. There's also a grain sector chapter in that.
Last touches on a report for Progress in Human Geography. Any lit in EconGeo you want to see featured? Condition: work needs to exhibit a deeper understanding of market/monopoly/monopsony/infrastructural power, mono-/oligipolistic competition, Bigness and be rooted primarily in Geography. #geosky
There was a whole APSA related debate about this a while back. I'm not sure there is a direct V-Dem/Freedom House comparison, but PS had a special issue a while back on democratic backsliding and coder-related issues.
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London friends: there are still tickets for the 8.40pm showing!
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And another friend - Sandulela Asanda - won the Youth Achiever Award.
Their feature length directorial debut Black Burns Fast is closing out the BFI Flare Festival in London on March 28th.
It's also been at DIFF and the Berlinale. TIFF missed out!
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Some good news in a world of increasingly bad news.
My friend Mnqobi Ngubane's powerfully directed and narrated dive into the Labour Tenant question in South Africa - Mathonga Elizwe - won the best short documentary at the South African Film and Television Awards.
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How does the "never Trump Republican" becomes a "sometimes Trump Democrat"?
The answer: he was always on the far right, but just didn't like the garishness of the MAGA movement.
South Africa's president has given an unusually direct interview about Trump, to the NYT.
“I do think the Afrikaner policy is racist... It is that racist sort of demeanor that we want to be able to whittle down so that he can see the truth of the situation.”
If employers don't pay, then the extension will massively punish migrants - especially those with families who have to pay the cost for each family member - and those with lower salary prospects.
It's truly a nonsensical strategy.
But that cost will fall back on the state. Some workplaces, like universities, will bear that cost. But as we all know, UK higher ed can't really afford that. It will be the state inefficiently taxing both itself and the private sector.