Daniel DevineAre Universities echo chambers?Again, Universities are in the news accused of being incubators for ideological purism and rejection of opposing viewpoints. A part of…4 min read·Feb 17, 2021----
Daniel DevineThe disintegration of trust in languageA lot (too much?) has been written on declining trust — in political institutions, leaders, each other — in the last few years, and…2 min read·Nov 21, 2019----
Daniel DevineWhen do democrats suspend democracy?Boris Johnson has prorogued Parliament in order to facilitate leaving the European Union with no deal or — perhaps alternatively — to…3 min read·Aug 29, 2019--2--2
Daniel DevineIs British democracy facing a legitimacy crisis?One of the biggest and most debated questions in political science is whether there is a legitimacy crisis. Seminal, widely-cited texts…6 min read·Nov 13, 2018----
Daniel DevineDid hate crime rise after Brexit?Richard Norrie and David Goodhart yesterday wrote an article reporting data from the new recorded hate crime statistics released by the…5 min read·Oct 17, 2018--2--2
Daniel DevineJournal rejection and low-stakes feedbackWhen learning about the publication process and inevitable experience of rejection, early career researchers (ECRs) will often be told…5 min read·Oct 16, 2018----
Daniel DevineDoes English identity matter?This tweet from Tim Bale five days ago caught my eye, based off of NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey, and gave me pause for thought:3 min read·Oct 2, 2018----
Daniel DevineDid Brexit increase hate crimes? The answer is still yes.So, hate crimes are in the news again after the Home Office’s release of the new data on October 17th. Thus began an avalanche of news…3 min read·Oct 19, 2017----
Daniel DevineCritical Review of Guy Verhofstadt’s ‘Europe’s Last Chance’: the Issue of Identity and DemocracyGuy Verhofstadt’s book occupies a unique genre. On the one hand, it is unapologetically, aggressively pro-Federal Europe. On the other, it…5 min read·Aug 8, 2017----