The articles in this issue illustrate how humanities and social science scholarship contributes to a wide range of topical issues, either through direct contributions to public debate, or through intriguing parallels.
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Elections and Constitutions
How to Choose an Electoral System
Simon Hix, Ron Johnston and Iain McLean
A ‘Professor of Electoral Engineering’: An election campaign in West Bengal
Mukulika Banerjee
New Labour and the British Constitution
Andrew Blick
Economics
Financial and Economic Horizon-scanning
Letter by Tim Besley and Peter Hennessy
The Fiscal Challenge
Tim Besley
The Family
Family Policies and Social Science
Simon Griffiths and Lili Hoag
The Evolutionary Anthropology of the Family
Ruth Mace
Risky and Resourceful: Parenting experiences of (ex) offender fathers
Elizabeth Walker
Bride Price, Poverty and Domestic Violence in Uganda
Gill Hague and Ravi K Thiara
Health
Academics, Academies and Public Policy: The Case of the American Health Care Debate
Ted Marmor
Obesity: The Welfare Regime Hypothesis
Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek
Going to War
‘Good Allies’: How Australia and New Zealand entered the Vietnam War
Caroline Page
Reporting the Olympics
The Olympic Games: Imagining a New Media Legacy
Andy Miah and Beatriz Garcia
Newton International Fellowships
Newton International Fellowships
Graham Furniss
Death Tolls and our Perception of Human Fatalities
Christopher Olivola
‘The natives ... enquired what the Spaniards wanted. [They] answered “Food”.’
Dr Rebecca Earle
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