Nuffield College Library

10/02/2025

How a once-fringe theory of presidential power is upending American government
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/08/how-a-once-fringe-theory-of-presidential-power-is-upending-american-government/
Salon op-ed by John A. Dearborn, Nuffield College Fellow Desmond King and Stephen Skowronek

Now the Supreme Court is all that stands in the way of a “unitary executive”

07/02/2025

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

31/01/2025

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby
Including The reception of Darwinian evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 : Darwinism's generations by Nuffield College alumnus Martin Hewitt

30/01/2025

The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6-Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13504
Paper in The Political Quarterly by Research Officer Marta Miori and Nuffield College Fellow Jane Green

The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning p...

24/01/2025

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

Books by members of Nuffield College include Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment : English, Scottish, and French influences on the third US President by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Iain McLean

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Shifting Sovereignties : a global history of a concept in practice by Nuffield Alumnus Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan

20/01/2025

American Political Violence
https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.33
Paper in Government & Opposition based on Nuffield College Fellow Des King's 2023 Government & Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture

13/01/2025

Measuring and Understanding Parties’ Anti-elite Strategies
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730711
Paper in Journal of Politics by Hauke Licht, Nuffield Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi, Pablo Barberá, and Whitney Hua

The Journal of PoliticsJust Accepted Next article No AccessMeasuring and understanding parties' anti-elite strategiesHauke Licht, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Pablo Barbera, and Whitney HuaHauke Licht Search for more articles by this author , Tarik Abou-Chadi Search for more articles by this author , Pablo Bar...

10/01/2025

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

20/12/2024

We opened the last few doors on our advent calendar a couple of days early... Happy Christmas to all our readers and staff past and present! See you all in 2025. 🎄

17/12/2024

Can Trust Be Built through Citizen Monitoring of Police Activity? Evidence from Santa Catarina, Brazil
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/crime-insecurity-and-community-policing/can-trust-be-built-through-citizen-monitoring-of-police-activity-evidence-from-santa-catarina-brazil/2D7FA6499DE7F90E6DD67BF89D1CFA21

by Nuffield College DPhil student Daniel A. C. Barbosa, Thiemo Fetzer, Caterina Soto Vieira and Pedro C. L. Souza

This is a chapter in the edited volume Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing
Experiments on Building Trust https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/crime-insecurity-and-community-policing/D3BF3FCF79B4BAC59D60DAB43412E505
Print copy coming to the Library soon!

Cambridge Core - Qualitative Research Methods - Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing

12/12/2024

Things will have to change? Analysing the Spanish transition to democracy from an elite perspective
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2024.2418996
Paper in Democratization by Javier Padilla, Bernardino León-Reyes, Nuffield College student Inés Echevarría, Erick Padilla-Galviz, Carles Pamies and Beatriz Valero de Urquía

Authoritarian elites may play an essential role in transitioning democracies, but little is known about the fate of these elites beyond that of the top leaders. This article offers the first panel-...

10/12/2024

Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140241306963
Paper in Comparative Political Studies by Nuffield College Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi, Denis Cohen and Thomas Kurer

A growing literature examines how economic threat affects support for anti-establishment parties. While most existing work focuses on transforming labor markets...

10/12/2024

Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in homophily on sociodemographic characteristics by relationship strength
https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sf/soae169/7918057
Paper in Social Forces by Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow David Kretschmer, Lars Leszczensky and Cassie McMillan

Abstract. Social networks are segregated by sociodemographic characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status. A key reason fo

09/12/2024

Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States
https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi/10.1215/00703370-11680156/393035/Revisiting-the-J-Shape-Human-Development-and
Paper in Demography by Nuffield College student Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova and Mikko Myrskylä

Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova, Mikko Myrskylä; Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States. Demography 2024; 11680156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680156

06/12/2024

Gambling on the constitution: Abortion rights and the 2023 constitution-making process in Chile
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680241303754
Paper in Research & Politics by Eduardo Alemán, Patricio Navia, Gabriel L. Negretto and Nuffield College Fellow Ezequiel González-Ocantos

When submitted to popular ratification, new constitutions tend to be approved. Chilean voters, however, rejected the proposal put forward by the country’s Const...