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Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

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Commonwealth & Comparative Politics is a quarterly journal of Comparative Politics, esp in the Commonwealth. It is published by Taylor & Francis @tandfonline

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📩Please read our article: Wipe away the remaining signs’: Hindu nationalist assemblage politics and the Christian other in Goa by @K_Bo_Nielsen #Goa #India #Politics Link➡️bit.ly/47nMize
‘Wipe away the remaining signs’: Hindu nationalist assemblage politics and the Christian other in...

‘Wipe away the remaining signs’: Hindu nationalist assemblage politics and the Christian other in...

This article analyses the consolidation of Hindu nationalist politics in the Indian state of Goa, with a particular emphasis on political transformations occurring over the last decade. Unlike in m...

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📩Please read our article: 'Afterword: whither Hindu nationalism and its others?' by Alf Gunvald Nilsen #hindu #nationalism #politics Link➡️bit.ly/4hRrjeg
Afterword: whither Hindu nationalism and its others?

Afterword: whither Hindu nationalism and its others?

Instances of anti-Christian violence in India reveal continuities and changes in the Hindu nationalist project. In terms of the former, I argue that the accounts of anti-Christian violence across t...

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📩Please read our article: 'Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala' by @harikrishnan_91 #kerala #India #politics Link ➡️bit.ly/4hMkoTw
Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala

Which god’s own country? A spatial history of Hindu-Christian tensions in modern Kerala

Kerala has long resisted the ambitions of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India; a state where despite a large grassroots presence of the Sangh Parivar, the BJP has enjoyed little electoral success. ...

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New update: We are excited to welcome our new Editor-in-Chief. Please apply; deadline: 29 September 2026 Follow the link: bit.ly/3Vk7rY1
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New update: Commonwealth & Comparative Politics is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief, starting in January 2027. We welcome applications from academics with a strong track record in comparative politics in Britain and the Commonwealth. Follow the link ➡️. bit.ly/3SNC1Zd
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New update: Commonwealth & Comparative Politics is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief, starting in January 2027. We welcome applications from academics with a strong track record in comparative politics in Britain and the Commonwealth. Follow the link ➡️. bit.ly/3SNC1Zd
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Please read our special issue article: A deeper state? Anti-Christian violence in contemporary Chhattisgarh by @nidahkaiser @K_Bo_Nielsen @SudhirSelvaraj #Christian #India #Chattisgarh Link➡️bit.ly/4bS5Hek
A deeper state? Anti-Christian violence in contemporary Chhattisgarh

A deeper state? Anti-Christian violence in contemporary Chhattisgarh

This article analyses the violence directed towards Adivasi Christians in Chhattisgarh in India between 2018 and 2023, under the governance of the Indian National Congress (INC). With Chhattisgarh ...

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Please read our special issue article: The ‘threat’ of ‘conversions’: cultural violence in the 2008 anti-Christian violence in India by @SudhirSelvaraj #religion #India #violence Link➡️bit.ly/4gFX6hi
The ‘threat’ of ‘conversions’: cultural violence in the 2008 anti-Christian violence in India

The ‘threat’ of ‘conversions’: cultural violence in the 2008 anti-Christian violence in India

With the rise of the Hindu nationalist movement in India, a system of anti-Christian violence has emerged. This article explores the movement’s justifications of physical and structural violence ag...

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Please read our special issue article (63:1) ~Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India by @SudhirSelvaraj and @K_Bo_Nielsen. #India #violence #religion Link ➡️bit.ly/3SLFIhP
Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India

Hindutva and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India

In this special issue introduction, we analyse the trajectory and forms of anti-Christian violence in India and its role in the wider Hindu nationalist project today. Inspired by Galtung’s work on ...

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📩Please read our book review by Thomas O’Brien @UniOfYork of the book ~Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions edited by @RikPeeters2, @gabilotta and Fernando Nieto-Morales published by @policypress #state #institution #bureaucracy Link➡️bit.ly/4oOggnK
Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions

Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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📩Please read our book review by @surlyBurleigh of the book~ The ideological scramble for Africa: how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945–1966 by @FrankGerits , published by @CornellPress #Africa #modernity Link➡️bit.ly/3QKiPKU
The ideological scramble for Africa: how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolon...

The ideological scramble for Africa: how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolon...

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📩Please read our book review by @MCollord of the book~ Autocratization in contemporary Uganda: clientelism, coercion, and social control edited by Moses Khisa, published by Zed Books, London. #Uganda #clientism #Africa #social Link➡️bit.ly/4v9iDEg
Autocratization in contemporary Uganda: clientelism, coercion, and social control

Autocratization in contemporary Uganda: clientelism, coercion, and social control

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📩Please read our book review by @Mars_CoetZulu of the book~Power shift: The global political economy of energy transitions by @PeterJNewell_ published by @CambridgeUP #energy #politics #economy Link➡️ bit.ly/4uDc6kY
Power shift: The global political economy of energy transitions

Power shift: The global political economy of energy transitions

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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📩Please read our book review by Peter Clegg of the book~ Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study, edited by Stacey-Ann Wilson, published by Lexington Books. #democarcy #Jamaica #development Link➡️bit.ly/4tZySTt
Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study

Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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📩Please read our book review by @sameen_mohsin of the book ~Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by @whowhywherewhen published by @CambridgeUP #Nigeria #Governance #accountability Link➡️bit.ly/4c45bJb
Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century

Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century

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Please read our article📩: How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India by @ajinkyaMu21 and @rahul_tverma #power #elections #politics #india Link➡️bit.ly/3PHbg79
How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India

How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

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Please read our article📩: Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives by Ian Talbot @unisouthampton #pakistan #political #crisis #southasia Link➡️bit.ly/4lT2dvS
Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives

Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives

This article brings a historical perspective to contemporary Pakistan’s mounting political, constitutional and economic crisis. Lying behind this scenario there is a complex collision between the s...

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Please read our article📩: Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections by Steve Hess @Transy and Richard Aidoo @CCUChanticleers #kenya #china #populism Link➡️bit.ly/4chNYOv
Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections

Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections

The article examines William Ruto's use of a populist ‘hustlers versus dynasties’ campaign strategy and the degree to which this strategy incorporated anti-China rhetoric in his successful bid to w...

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Please read our article📩: Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and political efficacy in two Australian states by @joshuamcdonnell #Australia #state #Power #council Link➡️bit.ly/45Vfw7Z
Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and...

Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and...

A nation’s political culture, tradition goes, is built at the local level. Local government’s proximity, simplicity, and human scale enable a wider range of people to participate and to learn the c...

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Please read our article📩: Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum by Jean-Luc Racine, Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH-EHESS). #Pakistan #Gilgit #Baltistan Link➡️bit.ly/4acFlnc
Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum

Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum

For more than seven decades, since the partition of India and the first conflict over Kashmir in 1947–1948, the former Northern Territories, renamed Gilgit-Baltistan in 2009, have remained in a con...

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Please read our article📩: The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape by @Y2Kureshi and @ZohaWaseem #Pakistan #Federalism #decentralisation Link ➡️bit.ly/4qd3GxX
The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape

The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape

How do political parties establish partisan control over police forces in federalised hybrid regimes with powerful militaries? Focusing on Pakistan, this paper examines how, in the context of limit...

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