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Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Umit, R., Michailidou, A., & Trenz, H. (2024). Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2024.2348161

This article explores whether and how journalists cover various forms of differentiation in the European Union (EU) in the news. Differentiation is a key feature of European integration, viewed by some as a facilitator of democracy and by others as a... Read More about Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK.

Democracy, accountability, accounting and trust: A critical perspective reflecting on a UK Parliamentary inquiry into the role of government accounts (2024)
Journal Article
Ferry, L., Midgley, H., & Haslam, J. (2024). Democracy, accountability, accounting and trust: A critical perspective reflecting on a UK Parliamentary inquiry into the role of government accounts. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 99, Article 102738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102738

Democracy is a contestable concept. Variants have been mobilised/appraised in critical discourse. Concurrently, in efforts to operationalise democracy, accountability is demanded, and thus accounting, relying on a notion of trust. Advocating more stu... Read More about Democracy, accountability, accounting and trust: A critical perspective reflecting on a UK Parliamentary inquiry into the role of government accounts.

A JWST investigation into the bar fraction at redshifts 1 ≤ z ≤ 3 (2024)
Journal Article
Le Conte, Z. A., Gadotti, D. A., Ferreira, L., Conselice, C. J., de Sá-Freitas, C., Kim, T., …Adams, N. J. (2024). A JWST investigation into the bar fraction at redshifts 1 ≤ z ≤ 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(2), 1984-2000. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae921

The presence of a stellar bar in a disc galaxy indicates that the galaxy hosts in its main part a dynamically settled disc and that bar-driven processes are taking place in shaping its evolution. Studying the cosmic evolution of the bar fraction in d... Read More about A JWST investigation into the bar fraction at redshifts 1 ≤ z ≤ 3.