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'Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism' by Amber Bosma & Magnus Lundgren.

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What can kayfabe and gimmicks teach us about governmental soft power strategies? This article operationalises pro-wrestling concepts to analyse nation branding through the WWE’s 2022 partnership with the Welsh Government.

My first paper is out in @bjpir.bsky.social ! 🎉 It looks at a novel dataset of local climate mini-publics in the UK, and how organisers justify their implementation. Full paper: journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.york.ac.uk/doi/epub/10....

National gimmicks as soft power strategy: WWE’s Clash at the Castle and the performance of the Cymru Wales Brand This article introduces the concept of the national gimmick – a performative, stylised persona derived from professional wrestling – as an effective lens for analysing government nation branding and soft power strategies. Using WWE’s Clash at the Castle and its 2022 partnership with the Welsh Government as a case study, the article demonstrates how governments employ entertainment spectacles to project curated national identities to global audiences. It argues that professional wrestling’s emphasis on stereotype, performance, and narrative makes it an especially potent medium for understanding how states simplify and disseminate nation brands. By examining the portrayal of the Cymru Wales Brand through WWE media, and the tensions surrounding Welsh representation at the event, the article highlights both the potential and the limitations of such partnerships. This interdisciplinary contribution bridges political communication and pro-wrestling studies to advance the study of government’s soft power strategies and the politics of branding.

New article out in @bjpir.bsky.social that investigates the #WWE + Welsh Government 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 deal to host “Clash at the Castle 2002” in Cardiff.

Mixing nation branding & pro-wrestling literature it analyses how WWE fit the Cymru Wales Brand into its broadcasts. (1/?)

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📣 Excited to share that my first peer-reviewed article has been published online by @bjpir.bsky.social - I am very grateful for all the support & feedback that helped me reach this milestone in my ECR journey 👏🏼

Super excited to see the second paper from my PhD now published!

I find that making MPs' pay and expenses more salient significantly reduces political trust. Raising awareness of the regulator mitigates this effect when mentioning pay, but does not improve trust when expenses are mentioned.

Does independent regulation of MPs’ pay and expenses improve political trust? This paper tests how framing of information about politicians’ remuneration affects citizens’ trust judgements, drawing on original data from two pre-registered survey experiments.

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'Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport' by Paul Michael Brannagan, Jonathan Grix & Alessio Norrito.

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'The politics of ‘whataboutery’: The problem of trauma trumping the political in conflictual societies' by Adrian Little & Juliet Brough Rogers.

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'Does independent regulation of MPs’ pay and expenses improve political trust? Evidence from a survey experiment' by Helen Bramah.

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'How Britain’s efforts to launder inequality in citizen rights contributed to a forgotten UNGA declaration' by Tendayi Bloom.

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'Industrial policy change in the post-crisis British economy: Policy innovation in an incomplete institutional and ideational environment' by Craig Berry.

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'The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom' by Kate Long.

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'Muddied waters: Freedom-of-navigation operations as signals in the South China Sea' by Hyun-Binn Cho & Brian C Chao.

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'The erosion of democracy in an age of wealth inequality: Unravelling the impact of subjective socioeconomic stratification' by Seungwoo Han.

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'The determinants of public gender egalitarianism at the national level: Empirical evidence from unbalanced panel regressions' by Byung-Deuk Woo & Ki Eun Ryu.

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How do governments perform national identity on the global stage? Investigating WWE Clash at the Castle 2022 – co-produced with the Welsh Government – this article introduces the ‘national gimmick’ as a conceptual bridge between pro-wrestling and nation branding studies.

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'National gimmicks as soft power strategy: WWE’s Clash at the Castle and the performance of the Cymru Wales Brand' by @daimoon.bsky.social.

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'Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation' by Richard Bellamy & Sandra Kröger.

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📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 3 (August 2025)

'The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed' by Lisa Herzog & Just Serrano-Zamora.

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'Recasting technocracy theory and analysis: Avenues for a critical-qualitative research framework' by Adriano Cozzolino, Daniela Caterina & Diego Giannone.

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'Revisiting the theoretical foundations of depoliticisation: A Gramscian state theory approach for an era of crisis' by Dillon Wamsley.

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'Quality not quantity: Lobbying institutions and the influence of asylum rights groups' by Alex Hartland.

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'Contesting focality in global health governance: The World Health Organization-World Bank relationship in historical perspective' by Francesco Gatti.

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'Stay safe, stay home? Majority world children, the COVID-19 pandemic, and (everyday) security politics' by Kelly Staples, Michelle O’Reilly, Sajida Hassan & Panos Vostanis.

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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2024 is Johanna Rodehau-Noack for her article ‘Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers’.

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'Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom' by Sofia Vasilopoulou, Liisa Talving & Daniel Keith.

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'Moral foundations and political ideology in the UK' by Paul Stoneman & James Wright.

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'Mobilising for organising?: Momentum’s distributed centralization and Labour Left strategy under Corbyn (2015–2020)' by Robin Piazzo & Domenico Cerabona.

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