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NEW ISSUE
Volume 6 Issue 1: Easter 2025
We are very pleased to present the tenth instalment of the Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs. You can now access the full issue here.
New from the Forum
- Democracy on the Edge: Habermas, Arendt, and Populism’s Assault on the Public Sphere
Avery Ngo & Isabel Clapp - A Quantitative Failure: Reviewing Kicking Away the Ladder by Ha-Joon Chang
Eben Macdonald & Tanvi Jhunjhunwala - Lebanon’s Governance: Quest for Reform Amid Populism
Nagapushpa Devendra & Anna Browne - Global Inequalities, Development, and the Future of Economic Policy: A Conversation with Dr Jostein Hauge
James Tam
Congratulations to the winners of CJPA’s 2025 essay competition! 🎉
See this year’s winning entries here.
Recent articles
- Should I stay or should I go? Untangling the determinants of urban-rural migration in China
Luke Dorman - Just Economics or Hidden Politics? Political Determinants for the Adoption of a Mandatory Private Pension Pillar
Eduard-Alex Ciuhandu - Cradle of Depletion: Unravelling the Tears of the Niger Delta
Bailey Gould
Events
- The Holy Land, God’s Work or the Original Sin? Symbolic Politics and the Founding in American Political HistoryFriday, 1 Nov 2024
- Bare Life and Resistance in Occupied Palestine (Event)Michaelmas 2024 Seminar Series