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Political radicalism, policy expectation, and electoral competition in France : a means to the end? (2011)
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Evans, J. (2011). Political radicalism, policy expectation, and electoral competition in France : a means to the end?. French Politics, Culture and Society, 29(3), 12-28. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2011.290302

Political parties use policy radicalism as a means of attaining electoral success. Differentiation from other parties and ideological renewal after a period of incumbency or prolonged opposition are valid reasons for policy innovation, but excessive... Read More about Political radicalism, policy expectation, and electoral competition in France : a means to the end?.

European security governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and new actors in a changing security environment (2011)
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Neighbours and new actors in a changing security environment. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12(4), 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/15705854.2011.622953

The EU has been making strong inroads into the realm of security over the last few years. This is a remarkable development since security matters used to be the preserve of states. The EU has generally been considered a rather weak security actor. Ho... Read More about European security governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and new actors in a changing security environment.

Re-ordering the landscape : landed elites and the new urban aristocracy in Manchester (2011)
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O'Reilly, C. (2011). Re-ordering the landscape : landed elites and the new urban aristocracy in Manchester. Urban History Review, 40(1), 30-40

This paper examines the relationship between the landed aristocracy in the vicinity of Manchester and the ‘urban aristocracy’ of the municipal authority and their role in the development of municipal parks in the city in the late nineteenth and early... Read More about Re-ordering the landscape : landed elites and the new urban aristocracy in Manchester.

In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England (2011)
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Pichler, H., & Levey, S. (2011). In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England. English Language and Linguistics, 15(3), 441-471. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674311000128

In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- o... Read More about In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England.

On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning (2011)
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Blakemore, D. (2011). On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(14), 3537-3550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2011.08.003

On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning This paper addresses the question of whether there can be a unitary account of expressive meaning by considering the descriptive ineffability of expressives such as damn or bastard, on the one ha... Read More about On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning.

Putting the Premium into Basic: Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series (2011)
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Smith, A. (2011). Putting the Premium into Basic: Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series. Television and New Media, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476411418537

This article traces connections between the institutional configuration of the AMC basic cable channel and the deliberately paced narratives of its original series, such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Rubicon. Scholarly and popular discourses concernin... Read More about Putting the Premium into Basic: Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series.

L’amour de l’impossible : advertising and translation (2011)
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Sanchez, M. (2011). L’amour de l’impossible : advertising and translation. Forum (Korean Society of Conference Interpretation, École supérieure d'interprètes et de traducteurs), 9(2), 233-254. https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.9.2.11san

The translation of advertisements, in a strict sense, is rarely possible. Linguistic and cultural considerations make the translation of standard texts difficult enough: whether at word level, sentence level or text level translators constantly enco... Read More about L’amour de l’impossible : advertising and translation.

Deriving a forecast model for European election turnout (2011)
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Evans, J., & Ivaldi, G. (2011). Deriving a forecast model for European election turnout. Political Research Quarterly, 65(4), 855-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912911421016

Turnout is a key indicator in European Parliament elections, in the absence of a direct executive outcome. Forecasting turnout is an important exercise in requiring the identification of a parsimonious model with good lead time from the array of stru... Read More about Deriving a forecast model for European election turnout.

Breaking into advertising (2011)
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Snowdon, G., & Morris, C. (2011). Breaking into advertising

Feature in The Guardian Saturday 'Work' section.

‘Neutrality: A really dead concept?’ A reprise (2011)
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Agius, C., & Devine, K. (2011). ‘Neutrality: A really dead concept?’ A reprise. Cooperation and Conflict, 46(3), 265-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836711416955

This article approaches ‘neutrality’ as an essentially contested concept and traces its meaning and purpose over centuries-long historical timelines and situated political, societal and security contexts. It distinguishes neutrality from other concep... Read More about ‘Neutrality: A really dead concept?’ A reprise.

Transformed beyond recognition? The politics of post-neutrality (2011)
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Agius, C. (2011). Transformed beyond recognition? The politics of post-neutrality. Cooperation and Conflict, 46(3), 370-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836711416960

The transition from neutrality to post-neutrality has been debated by constructivists and rationalists alike as a seemingly logical and unproblematic move: the end of the Cold War and the widening of the security agenda in a globalizing world have me... Read More about Transformed beyond recognition? The politics of post-neutrality.

Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction (2011)
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Hurley, U. (2011). Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 5(6), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/CGP/v05i06/35941

I continue his [Sebald's] walks in the world of ruins, of what is dead. I continue his contact with a stimulating tendency of the contemporary novel, a tendency that opens new ground in between essay, fiction and autobiography... So writes Enr... Read More about Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction.

South Arabian and Yemeni dialects (2011)
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Watson, J. (2011). South Arabian and Yemeni dialects

It has traditionally been assumed that with the Islamic conquests Arabic overwhelmed the original ancient languages of the Peninsula, leaving the language situation in the south-western Arabian Peninsula as one in which dialects of Arabic are tinged,... Read More about South Arabian and Yemeni dialects.

Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire (2011)
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Scott, M. (2011). Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire. Notes and Queries, 58(3), 438-439. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr077

Part four of The Place-Names of Leicestershire documents the history of the place-names in the fifty-four parishes of Gartree Hundred in the south-east of the county. Study of the toponymic record of this part of Leicestershire is facilitated by thre... Read More about Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire.

What is 'new' about fatherhood? The social construction of fatherhood in France and the UK (2011)
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Gregory, A., & Milner, S. (2011). What is 'new' about fatherhood? The social construction of fatherhood in France and the UK. Men and Masculinities, 14(5), 588-606. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X11412940

This article reviews the way that fatherhood is constructed in the public discourse and more broadly in the public sphere in the UK and France by examining (1) the fatherhood regime and its influence on the construction of fatherhood in the two count... Read More about What is 'new' about fatherhood? The social construction of fatherhood in France and the UK.

Introduction: Outsider parties in government in Western Europe (2011)
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McDonnell, D., & Newell, J. (2011). Introduction: Outsider parties in government in Western Europe. Party Politics, 17(4), 443-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068811400517

Over the past two decades, a growing number of ‘outsider parties’ have entered governing centre-left and centre-right coalitions across Western Europe. In this introduction, we first define outsider parties as those which — even when their vote-share... Read More about Introduction: Outsider parties in government in Western Europe.

Di lotta e di governo: the lega nord and rifondazione comunista in office (2011)
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Albertazzi, D., McDonnell, D., & Newell, J. (2011). Di lotta e di governo: the lega nord and rifondazione comunista in office. Party Politics, 17(4), 471-487. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068811400523

Since 1994, Italian politics has seen a number of coalitions including parties whose identity has been strongly based on their ‘outsider’ status as uncompromising opposition movements which would not previously consider government participation. This... Read More about Di lotta e di governo: the lega nord and rifondazione comunista in office.