Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us
Alex Haslam explores the concept of “zombie leadership” by outlining eight core claims, or axioms, that define this phenomenon.
The Fed Takes on Corporate Credit Risk
In March 2020, the Federal Reserve launched the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) to stabilize the $10 trillion U.S. corporate bond market, which faced falling prices and rising credit spreads due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By purchasing corporate bonds in the secondary market, the Fed aimed to support credit markets, marking its first direct intervention in corporate debt. Bin Wei assesses the SMCCF’s effectiveness and examines how it influenced corporate bond pricing.
An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics
Jonathan Kirshner critiques the flaws of realism’s modern alternatives and demonstrates how classical realism, with insights from thinkers like Thucydides and Hans Morgenthau, can better explain major 20th-century upheavals and today’s global challenges—such as China’s rise, shifting power dynamics, and the end of the US-led postwar order.
Dos and Don’ts when implementing Randomized Controlled Trials in Developing Countries
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are now widely used in economics, particularly for assessing development programs. Asad Islam discusses the practical aspects of evaluating interventions with RCTs, offering insights, challenges, and best practices.
Unequal Climate Policy in an Unequal World
Elisa Belfiori explores the relationship between household inequality and carbon taxes. Finding that low-income households have higher emissions per dollar spent, indicating that carbon taxes could disproportionately impact them.
The Political Antiquity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christopher Kelly highlights how Rousseau’s engagement with ancient political models, particularly Sparta and Rome, help clarify his broader political principles.
Inscribing Difference: Code-Switching and the Metonymic Gap in Post-Colonial Literatures
Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu explores how code-switching in post-colonial texts creates a “metonymic gap” between languages, emphasizing cultural differences
Politics, Identity, and Class Certification on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang utilize new data and discuss the first empirical investigation into how key characteristics of U.S. Court of Appeals judges—such as political affiliation, gender, and race—affect decisions related to class certification under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Molecularly porous cross-linked membranes
Molecularly porous cross-linked membranes are advanced materials designed with highly defined pore structures at the molecular level, allowing for selective separation and filtration processes.
Beneath the Crypto Currents
Cryptocurrency markets are frequently marked by market manipulation and a stark divide between large, sophisticated investors and smaller retail traders. Julapa Jagtiani argues this disparity is particularly evident in the case of Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by volume, where the gap in success between institutional and retail investors is even more pronounced than in traditional asset markets.
Failing Banks
Why do banks fail? Emil Verner’s comprehensive study of U.S. commercial banks from 1865 to 2023 points to three key factors: rising asset losses, deteriorating solvency, and increased reliance on expensive non-core funding. These elements are central to understanding bank failures throughout history.
Motion-Informed Deep Learning for Brain MR Image Reconstruction Framework
Zhifeng Chen presents a novel deep learning approach that incorporates motion information to improve the reconstruction quality of brain MRI images.
Culturally responsive pedagogy and the Muslim learner
Dylan Chown explores how educational approaches can be tailored to support Muslim students by integrating cultural sensitivity and understanding into teaching practices.
All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat
John Efron explores the cultural and historical significance of meat consumption in German and Jewish communities, revealing how dietary practices reflect broader social and identity issues.
Clicktivism, slacktivism and connective action
Max Halupka defines clicktivism as a type of digital political participation that is noncommittal, nonspecialized, easily replicated, and engages a political object.
The rise of the human capital industry
Peter Cappelli discusses the size of the HR industry and its marketing efforts, which now drive the agenda for the field of HR.
How to engineer a quantum wavefunction
Peter Evans examines methods for designing and manipulating quantum wavefunctions to achieve desired quantum states and properties in experimental setups.
Eyes on the street: the role of ‘third places’ in improving perceived neighbourhood safety
Gordon Holden discusses the role of ‘third places’ in improving perceived neighbourhood safety
Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
Torsa Ghosal interrogates the multimodal relationship between fictionality and factuality.
Allegiance, Citizenship and the Law
Helen Irving explores the historical and modern concept of allegiance, critiquing its role in citizenship, and arguing that it is outdated in liberal democracies while offering new perspectives on the relationship between citizens and the state
Subjective vs. objective assessment of the economic impacts of light rail transit
While the current discourse surrounding the economic impacts of light rail transit (LRT) predominantly leans on objective metrics, emerging signs point to a possible disparity between subjective perceptions and these objective evaluations. Liton Kamruzzaman endeavours to fill this void by scrutinizing the impacts of the G:Link in Gold Coast, Australia on local businesses, prompted by anecdotal commentary of adverse effects.
Vulnerability
Mathew Hayward explores vulnerability in business leadership, arguing that embracing vulnerability fosters stronger connections and builds trust with colleagues and clients.
Assessing Community Readiness for Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes
Primary forest conservation is crucial for combating climate change, achieving conservation goals, and meeting Sustainable Development Goals. Compensation schemes for communities are key policy tools but require insight into local deforestation drivers and community preferences. Using Q-methodology, Christopher Fleming explores discourses in three communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement
Retirement is one of the most impactful career transitions athletes face. Researchers recognise the role that athletic identity plays in this, but analysis of identity content and change processes is limited. Catherine Haslam discusses the experience of identity change in competitive and successful elite athletes who had retired from sport.
Liminality as wage penalty for India’s women community health workers
Vrinda Marwah discusses the experiences of the world’s largest all-women community health workforce through the lens of liminality.
How the Social Becomes the Biological: The Interaction Between the Genome and the Environment
Gillian Einstein discusses the interaction between the genome and the environment and provides a discussion of the role of epigenetics in modifying the phenotype.
Strategy-Proof Multi-Issue Mediation: An Application to Online Dispute Resolution
Mediation, a key method of alternative dispute resolution, has become a multibillion-dollar industry globally. Online dispute resolution (ODR) providers utilize automated e-negotiation systems. Onur Kesten discusses a market design approach to create a framework for developing mediation mechanisms that are strategy-proof, efficient, and individually rational.
Probabilistic Forecasting of Wind and Solar Farm Output
John Boland discusses statistical forecasting tools to generate forecasts with prediction intervals, trailing them on one wind and one solar farm.
Environmental factors in health data reporting
Arnagretta Hunter, physician and cardiologist, discusses the effects of climate change on human health.
The New Legal Status of Animals as recognized in the Civil Code of Quebec
In 2015, the Civil Code of Quebec was amended to explicitly provide that animals are sentient beings with biological needs and not property. However, nearly 10 years later, the scope of this reform remains unclear. Sarah Berger Richardson discusses.
Patient care in the screening room
Elio Arruzza discusses ‘screening’ examinations and recommendations for practice, spanning from initial patient interaction through to aftercare.
Film tourist tribes
Glen Croy contributes societal interaction and film involvement dimensions to characterise film tourists, enabling a greater understanding of film tourists and film tourism.
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War
Pauline Grosjean describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la France database.
Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan
Nicole Watts discusses the political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee
Where the Wild Things Were
Henry Jenkins discusses iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood