Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Volume 15, Issue 1_suppl, Page S188-S190, August 2023.
Manju Bala, Dalit Kotha: The Subaltern Voice in a Bengali Woman’s Narratives. Authors Press, 2022, 168 pp., ₹995 (paperback). ISBN: 978-93-5529-370-1.
Centring the Adivasi Literature: Becoming and Being
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print.
This article looks at four instances of Adivasi (indigenous) writing in India. The texts have been selected to centre the various social and political expressions of the Adivasi subjectivity. What is of significance for this article is the complex modes of negotiation between the Adivasi subject and the elements that constitute modernity and development. It would appear that on the one hand, modernity widens the gap between the Adivasi and their social and cultural terrain. On the other hand, the structural discrimination internal to modernity makes it ever evasive towards the Adivasi. This article looks at the specific ways in which each text narrates the composite relationship with the modern. At the same time, this research shapes a conversation between the four writings, often complementing as well as challenging how each makes sense of their place in contemporary society and culture, and defines the unifying elements of the Adivasi experience in India.
This article looks at four instances of Adivasi (indigenous) writing in India. The texts have been selected to centre the various social and political expressions of the Adivasi subjectivity. What is of significance for this article is the complex modes of negotiation between the Adivasi subject and the elements that constitute modernity and development. It would appear that on the one hand, modernity widens the gap between the Adivasi and their social and cultural terrain. On the other hand, the structural discrimination internal to modernity makes it ever evasive towards the Adivasi. This article looks at the specific ways in which each text narrates the composite relationship with the modern. At the same time, this research shapes a conversation between the four writings, often complementing as well as challenging how each makes sense of their place in contemporary society and culture, and defines the unifying elements of the Adivasi experience in India.
Narrating Moscow’s housing ‘renovation’: beyond the frontstage discourses of the narrative policy framework
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Regional elections in Portugal: Madeira (2019) and the Azores (2020): the two-way spill over between national and regional politics
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Regional elections in Portugal: Madeira (2019) and the Azores (2020): the two-way spill over between national and regional politics
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Supporting environmental protection in good and bad economic circumstances
The necessity of a transformational approach to just transition: defence worker views on decarbonisation, diversification and sustainability
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and the Unmaking of an Island: The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge
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Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs Twitter interactions
Party Politics, Ahead of Print.
The question of the democratic character of the European Union (EU) has been a center-point of decades of political research. An important critique suggests that the development of the European political arena is still incomplete, with European parliamentarians primarily orienting themselves to national issues and politicians, implying a problematic mismatch between the political arena and their policy jurisdiction. Research has however been limited by methodological difficulties of capturing the level of Europeanization of the political arena. This paper contributes a novel method for measuring Europeanization by studying interactions from the European parliament to their national parliamentarians on Twitter in 15 EU countries. Contrary to expectations in the literature, we find substantial Europeanization of the political arena. The level of Europeanization furthermore varies greatly across countries and political groups. This has important implications on the debate on EU’s democratic deficit, as communication across different levels of parliament indicates democratic debate.
The question of the democratic character of the European Union (EU) has been a center-point of decades of political research. An important critique suggests that the development of the European political arena is still incomplete, with European parliamentarians primarily orienting themselves to national issues and politicians, implying a problematic mismatch between the political arena and their policy jurisdiction. Research has however been limited by methodological difficulties of capturing the level of Europeanization of the political arena. This paper contributes a novel method for measuring Europeanization by studying interactions from the European parliament to their national parliamentarians on Twitter in 15 EU countries. Contrary to expectations in the literature, we find substantial Europeanization of the political arena. The level of Europeanization furthermore varies greatly across countries and political groups. This has important implications on the debate on EU’s democratic deficit, as communication across different levels of parliament indicates democratic debate.
Parties, preferences and influence in legislative decision-making
Party Politics, Ahead of Print.
Political scientists have a long-standing interest in the acquisition and exercise of power in democratic institutions. Although considerable attention has been devoted to understanding the role of political parties in legislative decision-making, empirical studies relying upon observational data, such as roll call voting, have faced difficulty in disentangling the effects of party and preferences on legislative behavior This research uses new measures on individual roll rates of state legislators in the nonpartisan Nebraska legislature and a sample of partisan state legislatures to provide unambiguous evidence of causal effects of party influence in legislative decision-making. The results demonstrate that preferences provide the most consistent prediction of individuals’ roll rates.
Political scientists have a long-standing interest in the acquisition and exercise of power in democratic institutions. Although considerable attention has been devoted to understanding the role of political parties in legislative decision-making, empirical studies relying upon observational data, such as roll call voting, have faced difficulty in disentangling the effects of party and preferences on legislative behavior This research uses new measures on individual roll rates of state legislators in the nonpartisan Nebraska legislature and a sample of partisan state legislatures to provide unambiguous evidence of causal effects of party influence in legislative decision-making. The results demonstrate that preferences provide the most consistent prediction of individuals’ roll rates.