Journal articles

Catalysts for Progress? Policy Recommendations in Research on Renewable Energy and Climate Change

Environmental politics
Climate change
Policy recommondations
Bibliographic research
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This article measures policy relevance in the abstracts of papers published between 2010 and 2023 in the top 100 journals covering energy research. Communicating the impact…
2025-03-01
Brian Paul Boyle, Yen-Chieh Liao, Sarah King, Robin Rauner, Stefan Müller

Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections

European Parliament
Election campaigns
Social media
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It has long been assumed that social media would equalize election campaigning by providing cheap means of communication for smaller parties who lack a strong mass media…
2025-02-07
Sebastian Stier, Yannis Theocharis, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Brian Paul Boyle

Brexit and the Iraq War on BBC Question Time: Demographic and Political Issue Representation in UK Public Participation Broadcasting

Media representation
UK
Brexit
Televised political debate programming plays a key function in enabling citizens to become informed of salient political topics, and provides information on parties’ stances…
2024-11-07
Heinz Brandenburg, Brian Paul Boyle, Yulia Lemesheva

Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality

Compulsory Voting
Turnout Inequality
Electoral Rules
Survey Data
The issue of unequal electoral turnout poses serious concerns for both the overall health of democratic politics, and the extent to which certain groups exert an unequal…
2024-02-01
Brian Paul Boyle

Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland

Migration
Refugee settlement
Social policy
UK
Access to social rights is crucial to refugee settlement and integration, and a whole range of social policy measures determine the limits on those rights. In the United…
2023-03-29
Gareth Mulvey, Dimitris Skleparis, Brian Paul Boyle
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