Month: January 2019
The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low‐Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems
Can electoral rules be designed to achieve political ideals such as accurate representation of voter preferences and accountable…
More Dynamic Than You Think: Hidden Aspects of Decision-Making
Decision-making is a multifaceted, socially constructed, human activity that is often non-rational and non-linear. Although the decision-making literature…
Toward a theory of transformative entrepreneuring
Jutta Tobias Mortlock discusses how entrepreneurship may catalyze prosperity as well as peace in entrenched poverty–conflict zones. Jutta talks on…
Hiding the Colonial Past? A Comparison of European Archival Policies
Displaced archives are a common legacy of colonialism. This chapter examines the similarities and differences between the ‘migrated…
A History of Borno
Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose…
Abstract, concrete and constructive
Andrew Bick received an MA in painting from the Chelsea School of Art (1988) and has since shown…
Using a flipped classroom to embed information literacy skills training into academic studies
In January 2017, King’s College London ran a module entitled ‘Contemporary Issues in Neuroscience’ for the first time…
Understanding student use of twitter and online forums in higher education
Eleanor Dommett discusses how students use online forums and Twitter in undergraduate learning. She demonstrates that more students use forums…
France, Prussia or Germany? The Napoleonic Wars and Shifting Allegiances in the Rhineland
Michael Rowe discusses the Rhineland, and more specifically, the region on the left (or west) bank of the…
Die Sichtbarkeit der Macht: Symbolische Repraesentation von Herrschaft im napoleonischen Kaiserreich
The period 1789–1815 was characterised by “regime change”. New states experienced a profound deficit in legitimacy. In the…
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