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16
Sep
2020

Education amidst Covid-19

With the Covid-19 pandemic unfolding across the world, schools, universities, daycare centers and other places of learning went into lockdown. As a response, in many countries education went digital,...
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4
Jun
2020

Trump’s populism and the pandemic game over U.S....

The coming to power of Donald Trump has sparked heated debate between pundits and academics about the consequences of right-wing populism in the United States and beyond. Although there’s little doubt...
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3
Jun
2020

Cummings, Covid and the British Establishment

By the Establishment, I do not only mean the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised....
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27
May
2020

Two Faces of Trust: Why Trust Matters for COVID-19

Trust is at the heart of societal and governmental responses to COVID-19, and will inevitably shape and be shaped by those responses. On the one hand, trust is essential for democratic governments needing...
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18
May
2020

Power Sharing and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Power-sharing measures, rules that allocate decision-making rights among groups competing for access to state power, appear to be experiencing something of a renaissance. A conflict resolution tool that...
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15
May
2020

Targets, Trust and COVID-19 Testing

Political scrutiny of the UK’s management of Covid-19 has recently revolved around an ambitious target the government set for itself: the goal of carrying out 100,000 tests per day by the end of April....
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