Andrew Bennett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3628436 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Bennett |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Bennett |
| FIRMA | BENNETT A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3322-7653 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 592 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Kafkaesque
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Towards a literary critical suicidology
Royle reading
This paper addresses Nicholas Royle's meditation on reading in his 2022 essay on reading Elizabeth Bowen's first novel, The Hotel (1927), for what he tells us is the fourth and possibly the last time. The paper returns to the question of telepathy, which has been on Royle's mind at least since his first book, Telepathy and Literature (1991). In particular, it picks up on his reading of the novel's protagonist, Sydney Warren, who is as if triangul…
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia
Since it’s revolution, Tunisia’s road to democracy has been turbulent—with apathy, polarization, and politically motivated violence stifling its transition. While much has been made of internet media’s role during Tunisia’s revolution, far fewer studies have examined its continuing effects throughout the country’s ongoing democratic transition. This study draws on original interviews conducted with politicians, journalists, and democracy activist…
The Online Market’s Invisible Hand
Given the recent surge of global populism, this article explores the relationship between Internet/social media and support for populist parties by focusing on the structure of the online marketplace. We argue that structure shapes digital networks’ incentives in terms of the content they favor, and marketing strategies they employ to distribute content on a mass scale. Specifically, concentrated/oligopolistic markets mean powerful digital entiti…
Mobilizing for what? Polarized citizens and electoral turnout in transitioning Tunisia
In countries that have recently transitioned to democracy, what factors most drive citizens to mobilize and participate in early elections? Many comparative studies on democratization and elections stress the vital importance of early elections in new democracies – with voter turnout inexorably linked to a democracy’s long-term stability and legitimacy – however, much of this literature focuses on aggregate rather than individual-level behaviour,…
Notes from the Editors
One of the main goals of our editorial team when we became editors of the American Political Science Review was to increase the substantive , methodological , and representational diversity of the APSR while continuing to publish excellent work. As we explained in our 2019 Vision Statement, we seek to broaden the range of research topics that are published in the journal and to diversify the subfields, geographic foci, and methodological approach…
Understanding Bayesianism
Bayesian analysis has emerged as a rapidly expanding frontier in qualitative methods. Recent work in this journal has voiced various doubts regarding how to implement Bayesian process tracing and the costs versus benefits of this approach. In this response, we articulate a very different understanding of the state of the method and a much more positive view of what Bayesian reasoning can do to strengthen qualitative social science. Drawing on for…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Demon writing
This paper was presented as a keynote lecture at a conference on ‘Elizabeth Bowen: Blurring Boundaries’, organised by Nicola Darwood and Nick Turner at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, at the end of the morning, just before the scheduled lunch-break, on 8 June 2019. This was only the third time we have had the pleasure of giving a joint paper on Bowen. (Previous occasions were at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, in December 1996, and…
Something One Does Not Know One's Way about in’
On Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny
Ballad, Romance and Narrative
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Suicide Century
Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature responds to the act and idea as an increasingly normalised but incessantly …
Symposium on Qualitative and Multimethod Research
Symposium on Qualitative and Multimethod Research: Note to Readers." Security Studies, 25(1), pp. 1–2
Discursive Emotional Appeals in Sustaining Violent Social Movements in Iraq, 2003–11
How are some rebel leaders able to sustain violent collective action but others not? Most theories focus on leaders' use of selective incentives and efforts to lower their transaction costs and raise those of the government. We argue that a leader's ability to arouse emotions of anger, humiliation, and fear is also critical. Foreign leaders and former exiles typically lack the legitimacy and understanding of local politics necessary to incite suc…
The values of literary studies
In his introduction to this timely collection of essays from leading figures in the field, Ronan McDonald succinctly explains that the book ‘proceeds on a conviction that we find the values of lite
William Wordsworth in Context
William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own transformation from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment. The poet of the 'egotistical sublime' who wrote the pioneering autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude, and whose work is remarkable …
Literary ignorance
Literature confronts us with the question of what it knows and of what kind of knowledge it may be said to yield. Paisley Livingston helpfully summarizes the major theories of literature's engagement with knowledge in philosophical aesthetics. This chapter highlights the significance of the tradition of literary agnoiology and aims to investigate the ways in which ignorance may be understood to be aroused, enacted, and explored in literature. The…
Case Study
William Wordsworth in Context
Associations between e-cigarette access and smoking and drinking behaviours in teenagers
There is an urgent need for controls on the promotion and sale of e-cigarettes to children. Findings suggest that e-cigarettes are being accessed by teenagers more for experimentation than smoking cessation. Those most likely to access e-cigarettes may already be familiar with illicit methods of accessing age-restricted substances
Symposium on Counterfactual Analysis
The articles in this collection constitute the third of four symposia on qualitative and multi-method research in the study of national and international security. The symposia are the product of t
Found in Translation
Scholars have become increasingly aware of the benefits of multi-method research, through which the strengths of one method can offset the limits of another. Yet epistemological differences between interpretivists and researchers interested in quantitative methods and causal explanation have inhibited a potentially fruitful multi-method approach: combining discourse analysis and computer-assisted content analysis. The growing availability of digi…
Using Process Tracing to Improve Policy Making
This article argues that applying the Bayesian logic of process tracing can improve intelligence estimates, appraisals of alternative policy options, and reassessments of whether policies are working as planned. It illustrates these points by demonstrating how more systematic use of this logic could have improved each of these three elements of policymaking regarding the 2003 US military intervention in Iraq
Process tracing
Introduction Why did the Cold War end peacefully, without a shot being fired? Why did some European democracies survive the interwar period while others were replaced by fascist dictatorships? In the post-Cold War world, civil conflicts have replaced interstate war as the dominant form of organized political violence, with rebel groups – instead of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) – as a key focus of both policy and scholarship. Yet wh…
Qualitative Research
This article surveys the extensive new literature that has brought about a renaissance of qualitative methods in political science over the past decade. It reviews this literature's focus on causal mechanisms and its emphasis on process tracing, a key form of within-case analysis, and it discusses the ways in which case-selection criteria in qualitative research differ from those in statistical research. Next, the article assesses how process tra…
Complex Causal Relations and Case Study Methods
This article discusses the application of qualitative methods in analyzing causal complexity. In particular, the essay reviews how process tracing and systematic case comparisons can address path-dependent explanations. The article unpacks the concept of path dependence and its component elements of causal possibility, contingency, closure of alternatives, and constraints to the current path. The article then reviews four strengths that case stud…
Case Study Methods in the International Relations Subfield
This article reviews the key role that case study methods have played in the study of international relations (IR) in the United States. Case studies in the IR subfield are not the unconnected, atheoretical, and idiographic studies that their critics decry. IR case studies follow an increasingly standardized and rigorous set of prescriptions and have, together with statistical and formal work, contributed to cumulatively improving understandings …
Burden-sharing in the Persian Gulf War
Why do states contribute to alliances? Is relative size the principal factor influencing the size of contributions, as many studies suggest, or are perceptions of threat, dependencies on other alliance members, and domestic institutions and policies equally important? These questions hold unusual interest in the wake of the cold war. The end of bipolarity promises more ad hoc coalitions, which will widen opportunities for research on alliance bur…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Found in Translation
Scholars have become increasingly aware of the benefits of multi-method research, through which the strengths of one method can offset the limits of another. Yet epistemological differences between interpretivists and researchers interested in quantitative methods and causal explanation have inhibited a potentially fruitful multi-method approach: combining discourse analysis and computer-assisted content analysis. The growing availability of digi…
The mother of all isms
Theorizing under the rubric of paradigmatic ‘isms’ has made important conceptual contributions to International Relations, but the organization of the subfield around these isms is based on flawed readings of the philosophy of science and has run its course. A promising alternative is to build on the philosophical foundation of scientific realism and orient International Relations theorizing around the idea of explanation via reference to hypothe…
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century
Going down the pub
In this article I want to consider the importance of the pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular music. Considering its role as one of the primary sites for the production and consumption of live music, very little has been written about pub rock. Moreover, in those studies that have made reference to pub rock, emphasis has often been placed upon its role as a training ground for musicians and songwriters (see, for example, La…
Qualitative Methods
Qualitative methods are currently undergoing a renaissance in political science, with a rich new literature developing and disseminating them and greatly increased attention to preparing scholars in their use. Although this is a discipline-wide phenomenon, at the same time political science continues to be differentiated along subfield lines. The collection of articles in this symposium describes the trajectory of qualitative methods in three of …
The Review 's Evolving Relevance for U.S. Foreign Policy 1906–2006
We review the relevance of the international relations articles published in the first 100 years of the Review for American foreign policy. We define a spectrum of “policy relevance” and give a brief overview of the Review 's changing relationship to American foreign policy as the journal, the profession, and the foreign policy process evolved over the last century. We then look at the Review 's role in key periods in American foreign policy, foc…
Friends in Need
Stirring the Frequentist Pot with a Dash of Bayes
Rethinking Social Inquiry (RSI) is a key turning point in a long arc of development and contestation within and between qualitative and quantitative research methods in the social sciences. It builds on and further advances three important trends in these research methods: a renaissance in qualitative methods in the last decade, the continuing refinement of statistical and formal methods, and a nascent convergence of methodologists of all kinds b…
Understanding Bayesianism
Bayesian analysis has emerged as a rapidly expanding frontier in qualitative methods. Recent work in this journal has voiced various doubts regarding how to implement Bayesian process tracing and the costs versus benefits of this approach. In this response, we articulate a very different understanding of the state of the method and a much more positive view of what Bayesian reasoning can do to strengthen qualitative social science. Drawing on for…
Bhangra in Newcastle
Originally a traditional form of Punjabi folk musk, bhangra has been radically transformed by British‐Asian musicians into a fusion style, which, in addition to retaining characteristic aspects of its folk heritage also incorporates elements of western popular music. There is currently very little research which deals with this adaptation of the bhangra style and which attempts to ascertain its cultural significance for Asians living in Britain. …
Mobilizing for what? Polarized citizens and electoral turnout in transitioning Tunisia
In countries that have recently transitioned to democracy, what factors most drive citizens to mobilize and participate in early elections? Many comparative studies on democratization and elections stress the vital importance of early elections in new democracies – with voter turnout inexorably linked to a democracy’s long-term stability and legitimacy – however, much of this literature focuses on aggregate rather than individual-level behaviour,…
The Guns That Didn't Smoke
Why did Soviet leaders not resort to force to preserve the Warsaw Pact in 1989? This article provides a cognitive model of how decision-makers learn from experience. It seeks to specify and establish the causal effect of this mechanism (elite cause-and-effect learning) as opposed to alternatives (more materialist or normative arguments) and to lay out the scope conditions for its operation. Soviet leaders learned from past Soviet military interve…
Reinventing Collective Security after the Cold War and Gulf Conflict
For the third time in this century and the fourth since 1815, the end of a great-power conflict has caused policy makers and scholars to take collective security seriously. World War I led to the League of Nations, but this organization foundered on resentments from the war, national expansionism, and inadequate institutional mechanisms. The United Nations grew out of the lessons of World War II but fell short of early hopes due to the emerging c…
Using Process Tracing to Improve Policy Making
This article argues that applying the Bayesian logic of process tracing can improve intelligence estimates, appraisals of alternative policy options, and reassessments of whether policies are working as planned. It illustrates these points by demonstrating how more systematic use of this logic could have improved each of these three elements of policymaking regarding the 2003 US military intervention in Iraq
Introduction to 'Elizabeth Bowen and textual modernity
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia
Since it’s revolution, Tunisia’s road to democracy has been turbulent—with apathy, polarization, and politically motivated violence stifling its transition. While much has been made of internet media’s role during Tunisia’s revolution, far fewer studies have examined its continuing effects throughout the country’s ongoing democratic transition. This study draws on original interviews conducted with politicians, journalists, and democracy activist…
The Online Market’s Invisible Hand
Given the recent surge of global populism, this article explores the relationship between Internet/social media and support for populist parties by focusing on the structure of the online marketplace. We argue that structure shapes digital networks’ incentives in terms of the content they favor, and marketing strategies they employ to distribute content on a mass scale. Specifically, concentrated/oligopolistic markets mean powerful digital entiti…
Discursive Emotional Appeals in Sustaining Violent Social Movements in Iraq, 2003–11
How are some rebel leaders able to sustain violent collective action but others not? Most theories focus on leaders' use of selective incentives and efforts to lower their transaction costs and raise those of the government. We argue that a leader's ability to arouse emotions of anger, humiliation, and fear is also critical. Foreign leaders and former exiles typically lack the legitimacy and understanding of local politics necessary to incite suc…
Security Studies,Security Studies, and Recent Developments in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
View correction statement:Corrigendum NotesThe three most cited works were Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005); Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994); Harry Eckstein, “Case Studies in Political Science,” in Handbook of Politic…
A reassessment of Elizabeth Bowen'sFriends and Relations
This essay proposes a re-reading of Elizabeth Bowen's largely overlooked third novel, Friends and Relations. Focussing on effects such as stammering, bathos, narrative catastrophe, narrative voice and non-human animals, allows for a proper appreciation of the radical possibilities that are opened up within Bowen's innovative narrative form
United Nations Law Making
Activities and Appointments
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"Devious Feet"
But the total effect of Wordsworth's person was always worst in a state of motion; for, according to the remark I have heard from many country people, 'he walked like a cade'-a cade being some sort of insect which advances by an oblique motion. This was not always perceptible, and in part depended (I believe) upon the position of his arms; when either of these happened (as was very customary) to be inserted into the unbuttoned waistcoat, his walk…
A. Reviews
THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CHALLENGE. By JAROSLAV KREJCI. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1990. 348 pp. .£37.50 (hb). THE ORIGINS OF ARAB NATIONALISM. Edited by RASHID KHALIDI, LISA ANDERSON, MUHAMMAD MUSLIH, and REEVA S. SIMON. 288 pp. + glossary, bibliography, index. New York, Columbia University Press, 1991. THE ARAB STATE. Edited by GIACOMO LUCIANI. London, Routledge, 1990. 454 pp., bibliography, index, tables. …
Reinventing Collective Security after the Cold War and Gulf Conflict
For the third time in this century and the fourth since 1815, the end of a great-power conflict has caused policy makers and scholars to take collective security seriously. World War I led to the League of Nations, but this organization foundered on resentments from the war, national expansionism, and inadequate institutional mechanisms. The United Nations grew out of the lessons of World War II but fell short of early hopes due to the emerging c…
Burden-sharing in the Persian Gulf War
Why do states contribute to alliances? Is relative size the principal factor influencing the size of contributions, as many studies suggest, or are perceptions of threat, dependencies on other alliance members, and domestic institutions and policies equally important? These questions hold unusual interest in the wake of the cold war. The end of bipolarity promises more ad hoc coalitions, which will widen opportunities for research on alliance bur…
Abeyances
That when there is thought there has to be something ‘that thinks’ is simply a formulation of our grammatical custom that adds a doer to every deed. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Shivered
‘Still Lives’ is, among other things, an oxymoron. It strangely mixes stillness and movement. In the first place it concerns what is without life or motion (‘still’) but is, nevertheless, animate or moving (that which ‘lives’). But there is a further strangeness and mobility within the word ‘still’ itself. For ‘still’ never settles into one determination or another, whether as adjective, adverb, noun or verb. It never settles, for example, into b…
Trance
What makes the ‘miracle’ of reading ... even more singular is that here the stone and the tomb not only contain a cadaverous emptiness that must be animated, but they also constitute the presence — hidden though it is — of what must appear. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Fanatic Immobility
For the writer, writing is eventful; one might say it is in itself eventfulness. More than any activity, it involves thought, but the thought involved in it is by nature captive, specialized and intense. ... Reading is eventful also. It, too, engages the faculties, so closely that reflection is only possible when the book has been finished and put down. At a first reading one has little but reflexes. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not…
Sheer Kink
Daniel George, who read the novel in manuscript for Cape, wrote about her characteristic contortion — at its most noticeable in this novel — in his report. So far from seeing it as affected, or deliberately high-flown, he saw it as the extreme of colloquialism: she wrote so colloquially, he said, ‘that unless the reader is lucky enough to coincide with her in placing a stress on the key word of a sentence, he may be baffled completely’. 1 These k…
Convulsions
The word ‘convulsive’, which I use to describe the only beauty which should concern us, would lose any meaning in my eyes were it to be conceived in motion and not at the exact expiration of this motion. There can be no beauty at all, as far as I am concerned — convulsive beauty — except at the cost of affirming the reciprocal relations linking the object seen in its motion and in its repose.1
Obelisk
Throughout this study we have sought to engage not only with a rereading of Bowen’s work but also with the indissociable question of how to write about that work. In other words, how might we present the novels or still lives of Elizabeth Bowen in critically appropriate ways? What sorts of critical concepts and vocabulary do the novels themselves prompt? What kinds of critical and theoretical thinking does Bowen’s work seem to call for? These key…
Dream Wood
To provide a description of The Death of the Heart (1938) may be likened to relating a dream. The Death of the Heart focuses on Portia, a sixteen-year-old orphan, callously described by her sister-in-law Anna as ‘the child of an aberration, the child of a panic, the child of an old chap’s pitiful sexuality. Conceived among lost hairpins and snapshots of doggies in a Notting Hill Gate flatlet’ (246). Her father, Mr Quayne, has an extra-marital aff…
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century
Bhangra in Newcastle
Originally a traditional form of Punjabi folk musk, bhangra has been radically transformed by British‐Asian musicians into a fusion style, which, in addition to retaining characteristic aspects of its folk heritage also incorporates elements of western popular music. There is currently very little research which deals with this adaptation of the bhangra style and which attempts to ascertain its cultural significance for Asians living in Britain. …
Going down the pub
In this article I want to consider the importance of the pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular music. Considering its role as one of the primary sites for the production and consumption of live music, very little has been written about pub rock. Moreover, in those studies that have made reference to pub rock, emphasis has often been placed upon its role as a training ground for musicians and songwriters (see, for example, La…
Friends in Need
Torn-off senses
On Posterity
On Posterity Andrew Bennett (bio) I. The Romantic Culture of Posterity Writers, artists, philosophers, and other manufacturers of cultural artifacts have a perennial fascination with the immortality effect, the ability of a poem, novel, statue, painting, photograph, symphony, or philosophical work to survive beyond the death of its originating individual. The appeal to posterity is a conventional topos in literary and cultural thinking, and poetr…
Ibiza uncovered
Analytic Narratives . Robert Bates , Avner Greif , Margaret Levi , Jean-Laurent Rosenthal , Barry Weingast
Hating Katherine Mansfield
Conrad's Blindness and the Long Short Story
An introduction to literature criticism and theory
"Bennett and Royle approach their subject by way of literary works themselves (a poem by Emily Dickinson, a passage from Shakespeare, a novel by Salman Rushdie), rather than by way of abstract theoretical ideas and isms. In 32 short chapters they focus on a range of familiar-looking terms (character, the author, voice, narrative) as well as less obvious ones (laughter, pleasure, ghosts, secrets) in order to show why such literary texts are so com…
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