My Commentary on Current Affairs
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April 30, 2020
A workshop organized by the Anti-Politics Specialist Group of the UK Political Science Association and hosted in LSE’s Media and Communications Department brought together an inter-disciplinary group of scholars to discuss two key questions: why are people so angry with politics, and what can be done about it? Here Gergana Dimova, convener of the Anti-Politics Specialist Group and Lecturer at the University of Winchester, and Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi, a Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, analyse and explain the themes of the workshop.
April 3, 2020
The current political emphasis on ‘the experts’ is partly a depoliticisation and blame deflection strategy to render them, instead of the politicians, as the public face of the coronavirus crisis, write Matthew Flinders and Gergana Dimova.
The Three Ps of Populism: Personification, Popularity and Provocation
Global -E, University of California, Santa Barbara
June 5, 2018
'This essay raises some questions that pit against each other the notions of three Ps related to populism: personification, popularity, and provocation. These conceptions have been widely and interchangeably used, and the essay cautions against this trend.'
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UACES Collaborative Research Network
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April 22, 2019
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'The Mueller investigation introduced a whole new line of inquiry into the analysis of the Media Age and government accountability. It asked a question not often pondered by media and political pundits:Â does the secrecy of an act define the boundary of a legal or political wrongdoing?'
Will Bulgaria Tilt Toward Russia?
November 11, 2016
'Bulgaria’s orientation toward Russia, and the renewed awareness of this shift, has become a major political issue in its presidential elections. While neither of the leading candidates has directly disputed Bulgaria’s membership in NATO and the European Union (EU), they have both argued that the EU should lift the sanctions imposed on Russia for annexing Crimea in March of 2014.'
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Investigating the Trump Scandal: Implications for Democracy and Political Risk
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Journal of Political Risk
May, 2017
'I use a database of more than 1,890 critical articles leveled at the governments in the established democracy of Germany, and the managed democracy of Russia, to place the Trump’s investigations in a comparative perspective. The analysis explains how the appointment of a special prosecutor affects the democratic nature of accountability arrangements and offers predictive statistics of political risk in the aftermath of this media scandal.'