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Research on the welfare state has devoted considerable attention to social policy expansion. However, little is known about why governments expand social policies serving groups with limited power on issues with low visibility. I call these "benevolent policies." This class of social policies improves population well-being but produces minimal political gains for the governments enacting them. Why do governments expand benevolent policies if political incentives for reform are weak? I investigate this question by focusing on government responses to malnutrition. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork, including 71 interviews, I argue that the origins of policy expansion can be found in the government bureaucracy. Bureaucrats with technical expertise—technocrats—can play a defining role, deploying international pressure to court executive support and orchestrate policy change. Their actions help explain the Indonesian government's unexpected expansion of nutrition policies, which serve low-income women and children and address micronutrient malnutrition.

Governments with strict control over the information that their citizens hear from foreign sources are regular targets of human rights pressure, but we know little about how this information matters in the domestic realm. I argue that authoritarian regimes strategically pass on certain types of external pressure to their public to "internationalize" human rights violations, making citizens view human rights in terms of defending their nation internationally rather than in terms of individual violations, and making them more likely to be satisfied with their government's behavior. I find strong support for this model through statistical analysis of Chinese state media reports of external human rights pressure and a survey experiment on Chinese citizens' responses to pressure on women's rights. This analysis demonstrates that authoritarian regimes may be able to manipulate international human rights diplomacy to help them retain the support of their population while suppressing their human rights.

This article critically examines the interrelationship of values and emotions in international relations. It focuses on the different meaning of affects and emotions, and theorizes about the affective qualities of values in world politics. It defines affective values as values that arise from the ceaseless, unconscious striving(s) to contest the outside control over one's life. In doing so, it distinguishes between negative affective values, which represent the evocation of fear, shame, and distrust to shape and project the creative energies of resistance, and positive affective values that signify the material and practical strategies that convert these energies into an awareness of one's insecurity in the world. The article argues that the tension between positive and negative affective values allows us to understand the transformative link between emotions and values. By focusing on the norm of humanitarian intervention, it contextualizes positive affective values in terms of the new resilience initiative of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

This project involves the creation of several new choral works, all of which feature intricate a cappella (or unaccompanied) "polychoral" techniques. These techniques include multi-part, multi-divisi, solo, and unusual spatial effects (or cori spezzati – literally "split" or "separated choirs" – as the technique was referred to in the Renaissance and early Baroque periods). By such means, an extra dimension is added both to recordings and to live performances (where the aural "spatial" interest creates a quasi-theatrical effect). This project is part-funded by an Australian Government / Australia Council for the Arts "Individual International Arts Project Award", and takes place across three countries: the UK, the US, and Australia. A CD recording of the works will be issued in 2017 by PARMA Recordings (US), and at least three new, large-scale choral scores will be published. The CD will also include the Royal Philharmonic Society / BBC Radio 3 "ENCORE Choral" award-winning work, "Kyrie" (for 21 voices).

Die gegenwärtige Welt wird von Migrationen geprägt. Die fortschreitende Globalisierung bewirkt, dass die Anzahl der Migranten ständig ansteigt und Migrationen zu jenen gesellschaftlichen Ereignissen zählen, die relativ schnell auf die Veränderungen der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse reagieren. Eine besondere Position unter den Arbeitsmigrationen haben die internationalen Durchflüsse von hoch qualifizierten Facharbeitern. Das Interesse von hoch ausgebildeten Personen an der Mobilität resultiert vor allem aus dem Risiko, das eigene Humankapital eventuelle verlieren zu können. Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Fortsetzung der bereits durch die Autorin behandelten Problematik der Vertreter der Generation Y in zwei Partnerstädten in den Nachbarländern Polen und Deutschland, das heißt der Absolventen von Hochschulen in Rzeszów und Bielefeld, hinsichtlich ihrer Einstellungen gegenüber der Migration. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist somit die Untersuchung der Einstellungen gegenüber der Migration bei Studenten und Absolventen von Hochschulen am Beispiel der Partnerstädte Rzeszów - Bielefeld vor dem Hintergrund der allgemeinen Migrationstrends, die für Polen und Deutschland charakteristisch sind. Im ersten Teil werden die Skala und die geografischen Richtungen der Durchflüsse von polnischen und deutschen Migranten beschrieben. Im zweiten Teil werden solche Tendenzen präsentiert, die für die Emigration hoch ausgebildeter Polen aus der Region Podkarpacie (Vorkarpatenland) kennzeichnend sind. Die Absicht der Autorin war die Darstellung der Tendenzen, die in den Arbeitsmigrationen junger und hoch ausgebildeter Menschen aus Bielefeld und der Region Ostwestfalen-Lippe benannt werden. Anschließend werden die ausgewählten Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen der Einstellungen gegenüber der Migration bei Studenten und Absolventen öffentlicher Hochschulen in Rzeszów und Bielefeld einer Analyse unterzogen und im abschließenden Teil verglichen. Die Untersuchung schließt mit einer synthetischen Zusammenfassung der angestellten Überlegungen. (ICD2)