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Back to SearchWhy did Argentina invade the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982?
Season 5 Episode 6
The fortieth anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War of 1982 is coming up in just a few weeks’ time. There will no doubt be many retrospectives, wh…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Pedagogy of Politics
Season 5 Episode 5
How should we teach about politics? How – if at all – should teaching politics be different from teaching hard sciences, such as physics, or arts and…
3 years, 11 months ago
Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed
Season 5 Episode 4
How can you best deliver effective public services? Is it better to exert top-down control over the work of bureaucrats on the ground – through targe…
3 years, 11 months ago
Taking Offence
Season 5 Episode 3
It’s sometimes said that we’re living through an epidemic of taking offence. We have become hyper-sensitive, the story goes, to any slight against ou…
3 years, 11 months ago
Intermarriage and Voting in Africa
Season 5 Episode 2
Ethnic voting means voting on the basis of ethnic identity, rather than, say, policy preferences or how well or badly you think the incumbents have g…
3 years, 11 months ago
Governments and Private Sector Suppliers
Season 5 Episode 1
Now, no one would claim that the subject of contracts between governments and private sector suppliers is all that sexy. But the last two years of th…
4 years ago
Public Preferences on Taxes and Spending
Season 4 Episode 10
Few issues in public policy are as important as the size of the state. How much should the state spend? How much, therefore, should it raise in taxes…
4 years ago
Online Public Shaming: Social Media, Ethics and Punishment
Season 4 Episode 9
Today we’re looking at a brand new article, Against Online Public Shaming: Ethical Problems with Mass Social Media, by Guy Aitchison (Loughborough Un…
4 years, 1 month ago
Legacies of Armed Conflict in Northern Ireland
Season 4 Episode 8
Northern Ireland experienced three decades of violence from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. Thousands of people were killed, injured, or bereaved. …
4 years, 1 month ago
COP26 in Review: Reflections on Glasgow
Season 4 Episode 7
Today we’re taking a retrospective look at the outcomes of the COP-26 conference that was held in Glasgow earlier this month. COP – or Conference of …
4 years, 1 month ago