Matthew Thomas Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 390981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Thomas Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9987-7050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reliability and affordability: Understanding the reasons for UK voters’ support for nationalisation and public control
This article explores UK public preferences on an illustrative progressive transport policy grounded in state ownership and control elicited within a complex and methodologically diverse series of surveys (1) n=693; 2) n=10; 3) n=2,200) of adult UK residents conducted in January 2024 in the run up to the UK General Election. We analyse survey 3 to show that levels of support for transport reform are high across parties and demographic groups, and…
Eroding Protections, Expanding Enforcement: Transformations in the Policies and Practices Governing the Treatment of Unaccompanied Children in the United States under the Second Trump Administration
Executive Summary Since 2021, over 468,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended by US immigration agencies and transferred into the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. According to the most recent data from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics (2025), more than 370,000 unaccompanied children’s cases are still working their way through the complex US immigration legal system. Unaccompanied children have long been identified a…
Reducing avoidable deaths and energy poverty: Conjoint experimental survey evidence on United Kingdom voters' priorities for energy policy
The United Kingdom Government has highlighted the importance of energy security, energy affordability and a transition to net zero as policy priorities. However, there is concern that the most efficient means of achieving this – nationalisation of the grid and parts of generation and supply – require taxation that is not electorally feasible. It is often asserted that there is an apparent paradox in this regard, such that those who have most to g…
Introduction: Cultural identity, stigma and health inequalities in South Asian and Muslim communities in the UK
UK resident preferences on tax reform: Survey-based evidence suggests support for progressive change in the run up to the 2024 General Election
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has described the UK economy as being in its worst state since 1945. Unlike the Labour Government of 1945, Reeves has rejected Beveridge-style public investment, in part because of claims of public support for fiscal restraint. We report findings of innovative, iterative mixed-methods survey (1) n = 693; 2) n = 10; 3) n = 2200) analysis of a programme for progressive tax reform designed to achieve c…
Innovative and ambitious or unrealistic and risky? Initial professional perspectives on the basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot
The Welsh Government’s Basic Income for Care Leavers in Wales pilot has been subject to public and political debate. While proponents applaud the ambitious nature of the policy and its intent to strengthen support for young people leaving care, critics have raised concern about its design and questioned its potential for positive impact. This article contributes to the debate by detailing the views and early experiences of professionals with dire…
These Words Are My Own: Archaeological Theory in Dialect
English is the lingua franca not only for academia but also for almost all international infrastructures and global communications. It comes as no surprise, then, that the dominant and assumed normative voice in archaeology is standard British English (SBE) for narratives of various times and places. This language is ‘majoritarian’—by this we do not mean that it is spoken by most of humanity, but that it is the imposed ‘ideal’ others are measured…
What principles ought to underpin ‘Radical Prevention Funds’? Ten principles capable of addressing social determinants to promote public health
The UK Government has increasingly concluded that ‘prevention is better than cure’ on the basis that preventive health interventions are more cost-effective than reactive services in delivering additional years in good health for the population. However, UK health and care systems are under intense financial pressure that preclude their shifting resources upstream to address social determinants of health. A separate Radical Prevention Fund (RPF) …
Why is income volatility associated with poor health? Longitudinal evidence from the UK and France
There is some evidence that income volatility (fluctuations in income over time) negatively affects mental and physical health, independently of the level of income. Evidence to date has examined fluctuations from year to year or from day to day, whereas a more relevant timescale might be month to month. Here, we use data from the Changing Cost of Living Study, a longitudinal panel from the UK and France with monthly data (n = 484). We examine th…
Exploring UK residents’ views on substantive education reform: Adversarially co-produced narratives indicate fluidity in support
Substantive reform capable of addressing multiple crises within the UK education system is often rejected on the basis that public opposition to tax and investment precludes politicians from implementing reform, even though policymakers may otherwise wish to do so. Here, we analyse data from a methodologically diverse series of surveys (1) n = 693; (2) n = 10; (3) n = 2,200 of adult UK residents conducted between November 2023-January 2024 examin…
Why Britain needs a new Beveridge and why politicians need to defer to the evidence
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Redistribution in the UK ‘Red Wall’: Have Policy Preferences Changed Since the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anxiety is often seen as a driver of far-right politics in British political culture that is strategically irrational insofar as the consequences of the policies pursued by such parties contribute to an increase in poverty and inequality, which are drivers of anxiety. This article shows that anxiety can also drive voter support for strategically rational, progressive policies, which hold out a real prospect for addressing the threats that voters …
What Do People Want From a Welfare System? Conjoint Survey Evidence From UK Adults
What do people want from a welfare system? Previous research has suggested a list of desiderata, such as that the system: reduces poverty; reduces inequality; improves mental and physical health; costs little; and rewards only the deserving. How do these different features trade off against one another to determine overall desirability? We conducted a conjoint survey experiment with 800 UK‐resident adults, presenting them with hypothetical welfar…
After nudging: The ethical challenge of post-pandemic policymaking in the UK
This article explores the interplay between crises, opportunities and democratic change in the United Kingdom. A vast body of scholarship underlines that crises open ‘windows of opportunity’ that can occasionally lead to radical shifts in the role of the state and the design of public policy. Even when a radical shift occurs, however, it has often proved temporary, with relationships and processes quickly reverting to pre-crisis modes once the im…
New perspectives on development
This thematic issue, 'New perspectives on development', aims to critically interrogate the continued resonance and relevance of ideas about development and how these can be elucidated by bringing into dialogue a range of theoretical, thematic and regional perspectives. We highlight the continued relevance of development in light of pressing and deepening challenges, including the climate crisis, environmental degradation, conflict and displacemen…
Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy
Poverty is associated with psychological variables such as increased anxiety, increased depression, steeper time discounting and greater risk aversion. However, less is known about whether short‐term changes in financial circumstances are coupled to immediate psychological responses. We present data from the Changing Cost of Living study, in which panels of adults in France ( n = 232) and the UK ( n = 240) completed financial and psychological su…
Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy
Poverty is associated with psychological variables such as increased anxiety, increased depression, steeper time discounting and greater risk aversion. However, less is known about whether short-term changes in financial circumstances are coupled to immediate psychological responses. We present data from the Changing Cost of Living study, in which panels of adults in France (n = 232) and the UK (n = 240) completed financial and psychological surv…
What do people want from a welfare system? Conjoint survey evidence from UK adults
What do people want from a welfare system? Previous research has suggested a list of desiderata, such as that the system: reduces poverty; reduces inequality; improves mental and physical health; costs little; and rewards only the deserving. How do these different features trade off against one another to determine overall desirability? We conducted a conjoint survey experiment with 800 UK-resident adults, presenting them with hypothetical welfar…
Rebuilding Authority in “Lumpen” Communities: The Need for Basic Income to Foster Entitlement
This article presents an immanent critique of neoliberal welfare reform using observation of participatory research involving left-behind communities in the North East of England and Australia. It argues that harms, such as passivity, invoked to reduce social security and increase conditionality are actually enhanced by austerity, conditionality and philanthropic giving. Deploying Mauss’ conception of the gift suggests that aggressive, conditiona…
Changing circumstances and new basic premises: Turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty…
Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways’ by Donald Hirsch 1" published on Feb 2023 by Policy Press
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: Evidence from UK economic microsimulation modelling1
Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) have claimed that it would be either unaffordable or inadequate. This discussion paper tests this claim by examining the distributional impacts of three UBI schemes broadly designed to provide pathways to attainment of the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). We use microsimulation of data from the Family Resources Survey to outline the static distributional impacts and costs of the schemes. Our key finding is th…
The challenge of establishing the impact of terrorist organisations: Development of a database on ETA’s activities
This article presents a new account of the size and scale of ETA’s activities. Highlighting a range of political considerations that shape existing records of impact, the article traces the deployment of a range of distinct methods of data collection and evidence verification in the creation of the most comprehensive database of ETA’s activities produced to date. The resulting database suggests that ETA’s impact is significantly greater than prev…
Breaking the Overton Window: On the need for adversarial co-production
Co-production has emerged as one of the key concepts in understanding knowledge-policy interactions and is associated with involvement, for example, of users of public services in their design and delivery. At a time of permacrisis, the need for transformative evidence-based policymaking is urgent and great. This is particularly important in highly distressed 'left-behind' communities targeted by the UK Government for Levelling Up, which constitu…
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies
If policy preferences follow material interests, the experience of socioeconomic disadvantage ought to increase support for redistributive policies. However, experiencing disadvantage might also reduce faith in government’s ability to make things better, indirectly reducing support for redistributive action, and leading to a spiral of widening disadvantage and increasing political disengagement. Indeed, disadvantaged communities sometimes favour …
Can Universal Basic Income work for disabled people? An examination of existing UK organisational and academic positions
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been proposed as a means of addressing a range of issues relating to welfare systems, including by removing disincentives to economic, social and physical activity. However, UK disability organisations and figures have expressed concerns about whether UBI could lead to unintended consequences for people who currently receive support conditional on needs, means and/or behaviour. In this article, we outline prominen…
In defence of fear: Covid-19, crises and democracy
The COVID-19 crisis has served not just to instil fear in the populace but to highlight the importance of fear as a motivating dynamic in politics. The gradual emergence of political-philosophical approaches calling for concern for ‘positive’ emotions may have made sense under non-pandemic conditions. Now, however, describing fear in the face of a deadly pandemic as ‘irrational’ or born of ‘ignorance’ seems ‘irrational’ and ‘ignorant’. In this ar…
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: Evidence from UK economic microsimulation modelling1
Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) have claimed that it would be either unaffordable or inadequate. This discussion paper tests this claim by examining the distributional impacts of three UBI schemes broadly designed to provide pathways to attainment of the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). We use microsimulation of data from the Family Resources Survey to outline the static distributional impacts and costs of the schemes. Our key finding is th…
Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41293-022-00220-z
Breaking the Overton Window: On the need for adversarial co-production
Co-production has emerged as one of the key concepts in understanding knowledge-policy interactions and is associated with involvement, for example, of users of public services in their design and delivery. At a time of permacrisis, the need for transformative evidence-based policymaking is urgent and great. This is particularly important in highly distressed 'left-behind' communities targeted by the UK Government for Levelling Up, which constitu…
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies
If policy preferences follow material interests, the experience of socioeconomic disadvantage ought to increase support for redistributive policies. However, experiencing disadvantage might also reduce faith in government’s ability to make things better, indirectly reducing support for redistributive action, and leading to a spiral of widening disadvantage and increasing political disengagement. Indeed, disadvantaged communities sometimes favour …
Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy
Poverty is associated with psychological variables such as increased anxiety, increased depression, steeper time discounting and greater risk aversion. However, less is known about whether short‐term changes in financial circumstances are coupled to immediate psychological responses. We present data from the Changing Cost of Living study, in which panels of adults in France ( n = 232) and the UK ( n = 240) completed financial and psychological su…
What role do young people believe Universal Basic Income can play in supporting their mental health
The proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds in England reporting a longstanding mental health condition increased almost 10-fold between 1995 and 2014. Studies demonstrate an association between income and anxiety and depression, with bi-directional effects. There is also emerging evidence that cash transfers may mitigate, prevent or delay those conditions. This article presents qualitative data exploring the relationship between income and anxiety and…
Communicating Politics: Using Active Learning to Demonstrate the Value of the Discipline
In the context of higher tuition fees, the Government’s employability agenda and growing concern for defined career development strategies among young people, there is a need more effectively for Politics programmes to foster the capacity to communicate politics. Without communicating the implications and relevance of politics the subject and the skills derived from studying within Politics the discipline, Politics departments may face recruitmen…
Male genital mutilation: Beyond the tolerable
For liberals like Martha Nussbaum, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has come to mark the boundary of toleration. By impairing physical, sexual and psychological functioning, the likes of Nussbaum believe the non-western practice to fulfil, most clearly, the conditions for proscription according to the harm principle. However, those same liberals assume the western practice of male circumcision, generally, to be benign or, even, necessary. As there…
Vernacular Architecture: The Loss of Innocence
(1997). Vernacular Architecture: The Loss of Innocence. Vernacular Architecture: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 13-19
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Redistribution in the UK ‘Red Wall’: Have Policy Preferences Changed Since the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anxiety is often seen as a driver of far-right politics in British political culture that is strategically irrational insofar as the consequences of the policies pursued by such parties contribute to an increase in poverty and inequality, which are drivers of anxiety. This article shows that anxiety can also drive voter support for strategically rational, progressive policies, which hold out a real prospect for addressing the threats that voters …
What Do People Want From a Welfare System? Conjoint Survey Evidence From UK Adults
What do people want from a welfare system? Previous research has suggested a list of desiderata, such as that the system: reduces poverty; reduces inequality; improves mental and physical health; costs little; and rewards only the deserving. How do these different features trade off against one another to determine overall desirability? We conducted a conjoint survey experiment with 800 UK‐resident adults, presenting them with hypothetical welfar…
The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools
The knowledge exchange framework: Understanding Parameters and the Capacity for Transformative Engagement
The UK Conservative Government 2017–2019 has taken steps to promote Engagement as a means of Knowledge Exchange (KE). In 2019/2020, a Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) will be introduced alongside the existing Research (REF) and Teaching (TEF) evaluations. Indeed, the OfS (Office for Students) and UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) [2018. Collaboration Agreement between the Office for Students (OfS) and UK Research and Innovation. London: OfS, 1]…
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: Holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential
Background: In the context of the UK Government’s ‘prevention agenda’, Laura Webber and colleagues have called for a ‘health in all policies’ approach. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a system of cash transfers to citizens. Recent research suggests it could significantly benefit population health, including via reducing stress. However, a Finnish trial of a policy with similarities to UBI has influenced debate. This was reported as a failure due …
Stress, domination and basic income: Considering a citizens’ entitlement response to a public health crisis
What makes for successful deployment of fear during a crisis
A year ago, the three of us came together out of shared concern for the place of emotions in politics and shared belief that many orthodoxies on fear as an instrument of public administration were just wrong. As the pandemic worked its way through communities and countries across the globe, it became increasingly clear that longstanding rejections of fear as a negative or pre-political emotion failed to grasp not just its adaptive evolutionary va…
Fundamentalism: Examining the Role of Public Reason in ‘Non-Liberal’ Approaches to ‘Unreasonable’ Doctrines
We focus on the divergent approaches of John Gray and Slavoj Žižek, arguing that the former upholds a comprehensive form of liberalism, while the latter upholds a political form popular among policy makers who endorse a 'fundamentalism'/'extremism' dichotomy. We argue that the latter fails to recognise that 'philosophical' unreasonableness often translates into political unreasonableness. Examining these non-liberal approaches not only indicates …
The precariat
Exploring UK residents’ views on substantive education reform: Adversarially co-produced narratives indicate fluidity in support
Substantive reform capable of addressing multiple crises within the UK education system is often rejected on the basis that public opposition to tax and investment precludes politicians from implementing reform, even though policymakers may otherwise wish to do so. Here, we analyse data from a methodologically diverse series of surveys (1) n = 693; (2) n = 10; (3) n = 2,200 of adult UK residents conducted between November 2023-January 2024 examin…
Why Britain needs a new Beveridge and why politicians need to defer to the evidence
The challenge of establishing the impact of terrorist organisations: Development of a database on ETA’s activities
This article presents a new account of the size and scale of ETA’s activities. Highlighting a range of political considerations that shape existing records of impact, the article traces the deployment of a range of distinct methods of data collection and evidence verification in the creation of the most comprehensive database of ETA’s activities produced to date. The resulting database suggests that ETA’s impact is significantly greater than prev…
Can Universal Basic Income work for disabled people? An examination of existing UK organisational and academic positions
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been proposed as a means of addressing a range of issues relating to welfare systems, including by removing disincentives to economic, social and physical activity. However, UK disability organisations and figures have expressed concerns about whether UBI could lead to unintended consequences for people who currently receive support conditional on needs, means and/or behaviour. In this article, we outline prominen…
Higher Education Outreach: Examining Key Challenges for Academics
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of austerity and high tuition fees. While university outreach professionals, such as those in widening participa…
Managing Racial Inclusion: The Origins and Early Implementation of Affirmative Action Admissions at the University of Michigan
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Experiencing The Past: On the Character of Archaeology. By M. S hanks
Archeological Theory in Europe: The Last Three Decades. Edited by I. H odder
Houses and History
Vernacular Architecture: The Loss of Innocence
(1997). Vernacular Architecture: The Loss of Innocence. Vernacular Architecture: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 13-19
Recording a Church: An Illustrated Glossary. By T. C ocke , D. F indlay , R. H alsey , E. W illiamson
(1997). Recording a Church: An Illustrated Glossary. By T. Cocke, D. Findlay, R. Halsey, E. Williamson. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 327-328
Recording Timber-Framed Buildings: An Illustrated Glossary. By N. W. A lcock , M. W. B arley , P. W. D ixon and R. A. M eeson
(1997). Recording Timber-Framed Buildings: An Illustrated Glossary. By N. W. Alcock, M. W. Barley, P. W. Dixon and R. A. Meeson. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 327-328
Archaeology: The Basics. By C live G amble
(2001). Archaeology: The Basics. By Clive Gamble. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 158, No. 1, pp. 417-418
The Growing Relevance of Special Operations Forces in U.S. Military Strategy
Special Operations Forces (SOF) have transitioned from a marginalized force structure to a prominent part of U.S. military strategy. The gradual increase in status for SOF has been a long road. Historically, conventional military leaders have been skeptical of SOF and reluctant to use such forces. Political leaders, in contrast, have traditionally had an almost intuitive understanding of the capabilities and potential benefit of SOF. For the firs…
International Relations Theory: A Critical introduction by Cynthia Weber
Towards the Development of Objective, Universal Criteria of Cultural Evaluation: The Challenges Posed by Anti-Foundationalism, Culturalism and Romanticism
Male genital mutilation: Beyond the tolerable
For liberals like Martha Nussbaum, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has come to mark the boundary of toleration. By impairing physical, sexual and psychological functioning, the likes of Nussbaum believe the non-western practice to fulfil, most clearly, the conditions for proscription according to the harm principle. However, those same liberals assume the western practice of male circumcision, generally, to be benign or, even, necessary. As there…
Towards a theory of cultural evaluation
From which evaluative base should we develop public policies designed to promote wellbeing among different cultural groups in different circumstances? This article attempts to advance an objective, universal theory of cultural evaluation grounded in a eudaemonistic account of human wellbeing. The approach evaluates cultures on the success with which they enable societies to promote the wellbeing of individuals through provision of needs and capab…
Evaluating Culture
From which evaluative base should we develop policies designed to promote wellbeing among different cultural groups in varying circumstances? This book engages with needs and capabilities to advance n
What Is Culture? What Does It Do? What Should It Do?
The concept of culture is deeply contested. Between 1920 and 1950 alone, at least one-hundred-and-fifty- seven definitions were presented (Kroeber and Kluckhohn 1952, 149). Having undergone dramatic transformation over the course of at least two centuries, the notion of culture is ubiquitous in political discourse yet conceptually elusive. Core debates revolve around the content of culture, its relationship to society and civilization as well as …
Circumcision, public health, genital autonomy and cultural rights
Circumcision is one of the oldest and most common surgical practices, being practised, for a range of medical, social and religious reasons, on up to 30% of males worldwide. At present, it is being
Introduction to the journal
It is with great pleasure that I introduce the first issue of Global Discourse as published by Bristol University Press (BUP). This new, long-term publishing arrangement promises to secure the journal’s future, to protect our commitment to working with young, engaged guest editors to examine issues as they emerge and to ensure that we realise our commitment to innovation through formal deployment of new sections that we have sought to develop sin…
The precariat
Ages of Reform: Dawns and Downfalls of the British Left, by Kenneth O. Morgan
Kenneth Morgan is one of the most distinguished political historians of modern Britain. The present title brings together a number of his essays from the past four decades in a volume of powerful and engaging scholarship, exploring the ideas, institutions, and personalities that have shaped the British left over the past two centuries. The volume is divided into two parts, the first dealing with Victorian and Edwardian Liberals, and the second wi…
Conservatism and ideology
1. Introduction: Conservatism and ideology Matthew Johnson 2. What does it take to be a true conservative? Martin Beckstein Reply Identifying true conservatives: a reply to Beckstein Joseph V. Femia 3. The conservative minimum: historical and transcendent subject Dogancan Ozsel Reply From David Hume to Sarah Palin? The troubled search for common features of political 'conservatism': a reply to Ozsel Stuart McAnulla 4. The unconscious Indianizatio…
Algorithms for diversity and clustering in social networks through dot product graphs
In this paper, we investigate a graph-theoretical model of social networks. The dot product model assumes that two individuals are connected in the social network if their attributes or opinions are similar. In the model, a d -dimensional vector View the MathML source represents the extent to which individual v has each of a set of d attributes or opinions. Then two individuals u and v are assumed to be friends, that is, they are connected in the…
European Contexts for English Republicanism
In the summer of 2011 an international conference was held at the University of Potsdam entitled ‘English Republican Ideas and Networks in C17th and C18th Europe’, in celebration of the 400th anniv
Pearson and Responsibility: (Mis‐)Understanding the Capabilities Approach
Aboriginal Australian public intellectual Noel Pearson has gained prominence and influence for his brand of policy reform in Indigenous affairs by drawing upon the capabilities approach. This article challenges the coherence of Pearson's position, arguing that his unrelenting focus on personal responsibility leads him to conflate different elements within capabilities thinking. Pearson 1) mistakes social capabilities (to which people are entitled…
Communicating Politics: Using Active Learning to Demonstrate the Value of the Discipline
In the context of higher tuition fees, the Government’s employability agenda and growing concern for defined career development strategies among young people, there is a need more effectively for Politics programmes to foster the capacity to communicate politics. Without communicating the implications and relevance of politics the subject and the skills derived from studying within Politics the discipline, Politics departments may face recruitmen…
Screen time and young children: Promoting health and development in a digital world
The digital landscape is evolving more quickly than research on the effects of screen media on the development, learning and family life of young children. This statement examines the potential benefits and risks of screen media in children younger than 5 years, focusing on developmental, psychosocial and physical health. Evidence-based guidance to optimize and support children's early media experiences involves four principles: minimizing, mitig…
Getting Multiculturalism Right: Deontology and the Concern for Neutrality
In recent years, the notion of pluralism or, as it is often termed, “multiculturalism,” has been subject to critique by a range of public figures on the right of the political spectrum, such as David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Donald Trump. While “multiculturalism” is presented as being antithetical to the traditions of Western societies, it is, in fact, grounded in the same liberal tradition of individual rights as that invoked by those on the r…
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