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Through the labyrinth: women in the public universities of Pakistan
The purpose of this study is to find out how women negotiate their path to leadership; the barriers and facilitators and how they navigated them to...
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Understanding Public Acceptance of Automobile Restriction Policies: A Qualitative Study in Four Latin American Cities
In recent decades, several Latin American cities have implemented policy instruments to reduce urban air pollution and traffic congestion such as...
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Populism and public attitudes toward international organizations: Voting, communication, and education
What effect does populism have on public attitudes toward International Organizations (IOs)? In this article, we differentiate for the first time...
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Public Engagement
Anthropology is frequently described as the art of “making the familiar exotic and the exotic familiar”. It has also been described as “the most...
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International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash?
Despite growing scholarly interest in international rankings, we know little on how the public perceives them. Do rankings bring citizens to favor...
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Public Engagement on Childhood Vaccination: Democratizing Policy Decision-Making Through Public Deliberation
Immunization is considered one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions by the World Health Organization, preventing an...
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on South Africa’s economy: evidence from social accounting matrix and computable general equilibrium-based approaches
This paper assesses the general equilibrium impacts of public infrastructure investment in the South African economy, as a case of an emerging...
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Politics, Public Relations and Islam in the UK Public Sphere
The intense media exposure of Islam and Muslims in the UK since the launch of the ‘war on terror’ in 2001 has prompted a multitude of academic...
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Bellah, American Civil Religion, and the Dynamics of Public Meanings
Bellah's 'Civil Religion in America' (
1967 ) caught a moment in the American academy. It quickly became a much debated concept and although interest... -
When a Club Turns into a Public Event: The Structural Transformation of the British Parliament and the Making of Collective Solidarity
Much of the scholarship on the modern public sphere has, following Habermas, focused on arenas of sociability detached from state authority. However,...
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Map** gendered spaces and women’s rights in the modern egyptian public sphere
This paper draws on secularisation and feminist theories to analyse the intersection between political, religious and economic factors in defining...
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Public Expenditure’s Role in Reducing Poverty and Improving Food and Nutrition Security: Cross-Country Evidence from SPEED Data
Knowledge gaps remain as to how public expenditures (PE) contribute to key SDG outcomes, including eradicating poverty and hunger and improving food...
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Urban Agriculture in Public Space Planning and Designing for Human Flourishing in Northern European Cities and Beyond
This open access book discusses urban agriculture initiatives integrated in public space of dense inner-city neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring its...
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Did the public attribute the Flint Water Crisis to racism as it was happening? Text analysis of Twitter data to examine causal attributions to racism during a public health crisis
The Flint Water Crisis (FWC) was an avoidable public health disaster that profoundly affected the city’s residents, a majority of whom are Black....
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Privatization Trends in French Public Universities: Challenging the Geographies of a Public Service
This chapter aims to analyze how some recent privatization trends in French Higher Education and Research system are transforming the geographies of...
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Child sexual exploitation and the adoption of public health approaches to prevention: critical reflections on evolving processes and practices
In recent years, the use of public health approaches to address complex social problems has gained popularity. In England and Wales, the rise in...
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Michael Burawoys Public Sociology
Meines Erachtens kann sich Burawoys Public Sociology über zwei Zugänge genähert werden: Erstens mittels seiner Zeitdiagnose, seiner...
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Policy level analysis of public urban lands management in Burundi: insights for harmonization of policy frameworks
Public urban lands significantly benefit the people, environment, and economy and demand protection and proper management from people. However,...
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Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries
This article investigates public attitudes towards government surveillance for law enforcement and national security in different European countries,...
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The Roles of Race and Mental Health in the On-scene Outcomes of Public Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are most frequently committed by white men. Yet, these white perpetrators often do not meet the same fatal fate as Black people who...