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Jacobite Literatures, 1688–1702
Authors: Monod Paul K. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Jacobite literature is writing that expresses support for the claims of the exiled Stuarts to the throne of England. In the 1690s, it circulated mainly in written manuscripts and was read by ardent groups of devoted followers. Jacobite poetry ran the gamut of genres, from epics to popular ditties and imaginative fantasies about the restoration of the Stuarts. It was written in all the languages of the British Isles and Ireland: Irish, Scots Gaelic, Scots English, Latin, and English. John Dryden contributed to it, as did lesser-known writers like James Philp, Archibald Pitcairne, Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, Ian Lom Mac-Dòmnailh, Henry Hall, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea, and Jane Barker. By the end of the 1690s, in works by Jeremy Collier or Mary Astell, Jacobite literature was swinging away from themes of mourning, commemoration, or celebration and becoming a critique of post-revolutionary manners and morals.
Plays and Players, Playhouses and Playgoers
Authors: Hume Robert D. 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Until very recently, almost all analysis of late-seventeenth-century English drama treated the plays essentially as literary documents—which is, of course, principally how we view them today. In their original context, however, these plays were designed as vehicles for favourite actors to be performed in theatres with changeable scenery, radically different from the nineteenth- and twentieth-century norms we have inherited. The scripts were subject to rather erratic government censorship, and the two patent companies that held a duopoly differed significantly in management, personnel, and rights to old plays. Our knowledge of what was performed day by day is drastically limited: we know or can plausibly estimate only about 10 per cent of approximately 14,000 total performances between 1660 and 1700. Moreover, our perception of the plays and their audience has been distorted by the moral prejudices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars. Approaching the approximately 500 new plays staged in the half-century after the reopening of the theatres in 1660 as performances crafted to appeal to a mixed and rapidly changing audience, yields a very different sense of the drama of that time.
The Ritual Language of Militarization
Authors: McIntosh Janet 
Published: January 2025

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Ritualistic language is a key mechanism for instilling military priorities in service members and civilians alike. This chapter first exemplifies this claim by examining military rites of passage, focusing on the content and style of United States Marine Corps training language. Such language is rich with teachings about recruits’ necropolitical role, directly and indirectly conveying messages that recruits are interchangeable components of the military machine, that they are killable, and that they must dehumanize outgroups in turn. They learn to renounce aspects of individualism while receiving indirect lessons about the negotiability of human dignity and even of the military’s own official policies. The chapter then explores the linguistic militarization of US civilians through the ceremonial platitudes politicians and civilians utter about military service. It concludes by exploring the interdiscursive flow of military training stances into conservative political speech.
Dravidian Contributions to the Theory of Language Acquisition
Authors: Lidz Jeffrey 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter examines the role that the study of Kannada-learning children has played in the theory of language acquisition. The chapter reviews three sets of studies examining children’s acquisition of syntax. In each case, it reveals learners’ expectations about how the data of their experience relate to their prior theory of grammar. In the case of argument structure, children rely more on fundamental aspects of the linking between syntax and semantics than they do on statistical features of their environment. In the case of quantifier scope, children display an overreliance on surface c-command relations in driving their scope interpretations, suggesting that c-command holds a privileged place in children’s expectations about the link between syntax and semantics. Finally, in the case of quantifier-variable binding in ditransitive constructions, expectations about possible structures allow children to (a) project beyond their experience and (b) use statistical features of the environment to infer grammatical structure from a fixed set of choices.
Inflections in Home and School Languages
Authors: Raman Madhavi Gayathri 
Published: January 2025

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Where schooling is in a second language, oral or reading language impairment may likely be more reliably detected by parallel testing in home and school languages. Seventeen schoolchildren aged 8 + participated in production and judgement tasks on verb and noun inflection in Malayalam and English. Malayalam tasks were constructed to parallel existing English tasks in all verb-noun categories (regular/irregular, real/novel). Children’s performance was compared with that of their own peer groups. Seven subjects were identified as outliers (below the group lower fence for a task) in both languages on at least one task, and impaired performance in both languages was specific to parallel lexical categories (verb or noun). Although group performance in Malayalam was better than in English, more outlier instances on Malayalam tasks than English ones (and two additional outliers only in Malayalam) raise the issue of formal language education as an aid to children on the margins.
Women Writers and the “Male” Canon
Authors: Tylus Jane 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter explores the roles and recognition of women in Italian literary history, examining how female authors have contributed to, reshaped, and often contested the traditionally male-dominated literary canon. Dacia Maraini amplifies overlooked voices in Chiara di Assisi (2014) by recounting Saint Clare’s defiant life through a contemporary lens, challenging readers to question who decides canonical worth. Italian writers from the Renaissance onward, like Gaspara Stampa, boldly reinterpreted Petrarchan tropes and pioneered female expression within restrictive literary frameworks. Two more recent writers, Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante, have redefined Italian literature by infusing familial and female-centered narratives into the canon. Concluding with contemporary feminist scholars, the chapter emphasizes the ongoing effort to create an inclusive canon that values diverse, historically marginalized voices.
Translating Research on Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity into Action
Authors: Beaudoin Monique E. 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter addresses how militaries have led and leveraged decades of neuroplasticity and neuromodulation research to enhance the cognitive performance of military service members and improve national security. There are several key military application areas in the cognitive domain that may benefit the most from cognitive enhancement research and development, such as decision-making, creativity, learning, rapid expertise development, fatigue countermeasures, enhanced resiliency against stress, and others. Many military and governmental research programs around the world have funded internationally recognized and interdisciplinary researchers to explore novel approaches to cognitive performance enhancement for the benefit of national security. This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the most compelling military investments in cognitive enhancement research, while also highlighting the key differences between military use of cognitive enhancement approaches and use of similar tools by the general population. The chapter also discusses ethical considerations for use of cognitive enhancement tools in able-bodied active-duty military service members. Finally, the chapter discusses potential future research avenues for the next wave of cognitive performance enhancement research for military applications, in light of the most recent developments in neurotechnology.
Emotions and Solidarity in the Global South
Authors: Benabdallah Lina 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter contends that emotions play a fundamental role in Global South politics. It examines how positive emotions and attributes such as friendship bonds, trust, and respect are salient in expressions of solidarity and diplomatic resilience among Global South states. In particular, it investigates emotional resonance and familiarity as a basis for expressions of solidarity in South–South relations. As illustration, the chapter looks into expressions of solidarity in China–Africa relations in two distinct political moments: during Africa’s anticolonial struggles and more recently under China’s New Silk Road initiative. Grounded in nostalgic narratives of history, emotional resonance and familiarity give Chinese elites the confidence to represent China’s development experiences as applicable to Global South states.
Thinking–Feeling–Doing International Relations Research
Authors: Shepherd Laura J. , Sjoberg Laura 
Published: January 2025

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Research is necessarily emotional because it is a human endeavor and scholars are feeling creatures—something important to understand with every word that we as international relations (IR) scholars think, write, and share. IR research is not only unimaginable without, but is also substantively and methodologically shaped by, two highly emotional conversations with self—one about the substance of the research and the other about its process. Who we are emotionally is bound up in every research choice that we make, although research is a distorted and imperfect mirror in which to evaluate the appearance of our selves. This chapter explores how we think–feel about, and make the choices that shape, our research, reflecting on our research practices and the emotions that surface in the contributions to this volume.
Handbooks
Authors: Bullard Paddy 
Published: January 2025

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A wide variety of seventeenth-century prose publications—often bearing the title words ‘enchiridion’, ‘manual’, or ‘vade mecum’—identified themselves as books-for-the-hand. This chapter argues that ‘handbooks’ (to use what was an exclusively antiquarian term during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) constituted a distinctive print genre during the early modern period, notwithstanding the diversity of their themes and functions. The association of hands with books took various forms. The most common connotation was with compactness and portability. Manuals had a second set of associations, however, with the skilled or dexterous hand—with crafts, manual trades, professions, and recreations. This chapter emphasizes the innovations of design, format, and distribution made so often in this kind of publication and investigates how the prose they contain was determined by material form. Printed manuals provided the medium for a new genre of prose even more completely modern, perhaps, than that of the emerging novel.
Reception
Authors: Wall Cynthia 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter will survey the various seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century debates that influenced both the critical and the commercial reception of a variety of genres of prose. The burgeoning of new vehicles for different kinds of prose demonstrates an increasingly literate audience hungry for new kinds of reading material. New kinds of reading meant new ways of reading—as well as new criticisms of both. The shifts from manuscript to print, from reading aloud to reading alone, from the reopening of the theatres to the creation of closets, all these and more were both cause and consequence of new reading practices and prose styles. This bird’s-eye view will track the changing fashions in narrative patterns from the level of syntax and grammar to the alliances between plain prose and cultivated ambiguity. The buying, selling, sharing, reading, and writing of texts all contributed to the changing textures of English prose.
Religious Autobiography
Authors: Conti Brooke 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter considers the vexed history of the term ‘spiritual autobiography’ and then moves to broaden the definition of religious autobiography. Although scholars now recognize that religious autobiography is a diverse and capacious genre and that not all examples follow the norm of the nonconformist autobiography, that leaves open the question of what unites these works. This chapter contends that, in fact, all works of religious autobiography share certain rhetorical and persuasive goals. Through an analysis of works by writers such as John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Anna Trapnel, John Lilburne, Joseph Hall, and Thomas Browne, this chapter shows that even those writing in very different modes and from across the Protestant denominational spectrum use autobiography as a tool both to discover and display the truth of their beliefs. Moreover, in an age of religious conflict, religious autobiography is often notably uncontentious, seeking to persuade by example and thus demonstrate the author’s participation in a transhistorical Christian identity.
Sidney and Gardens
Authors: Bushnell Rebecca 
Published: January 2025

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Through an exploration of later Elizabethan horticulture and landscape design, this chapter analyses two significant moments in Sidney’s works that evoke garden spaces or experiences. The first example is Kalander’s estate in Book 1 of the New Arcadia, which is described as ‘field, garden, and orchard’, making ‘order in confusion’, where art and nature inform each other. The second example is the encounter represented in the country-house entertainment of The Lady of May; there, in the liminal space of the grove, the drama plays out the political and social values of a place where garden and forest intersect. In both examples, the setting of cultivated land, both art and nature, influences the representation of aesthetic, social and political agency.
Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Cheeseman Nic , Fisher Jonathan , Mwambari David 
Published: January 2025

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Authoritarianism in Africa takes, and has taken, many different forms including one-party states, military rule, and personal dictatorships. This chapter highlights these variations, the different combinations of co-option and coercion they have given rise to, and how this helps to explain the stability and durability of authoritarian governance. The analysis is organized into three parts. The first explores the history and evolution of authoritarianism in Africa from prior to European colonization to the present. The second presents and assesses different schools of thought concerning why some authoritarian systems in Africa endure and others collapse. Here the focus is not only on the economic, military, and political resources authoritarian governments marshal but also on the ideas and beliefs they draw upon to legitimate themselves, and the claims to authority they make. Finally, the chapter reflects on the current trajectory of authoritarianism in Africa and the growing centrality of developmentalism and global actors beyond the West.
Authoritarian Soft Power
Authors: Bader Julia 
Published: January 2025

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Despite the intuitive appeal and empirical relevance of Nye’s soft power, the analytical shortcomings of this concept have become particularly salient in the context of authoritarian power wielders. This chapter proposes to conceptualize soft power as a form of influence that is perceived positively by the target. In doing so, the chapter aligns the intuition of soft power with established conceptualizations of power that emphasize audience perceptions. Applicable to democracies and autocracies alike, this approach is analytically useful and allows clarification of the relationship of soft power to related phenomena such as legitimacy and diffusion. The chapter subsequently discusses methodological issues and presents empirical insights into authoritarian soft power as well as audience responses. The conclusion identifies further gaps in the literature and proposes avenues for future research.
Stability and Change in Dutch PoliticsIntroduction to the Handbook
Authors: de Lange Sarah , Louwerse Tom , ’t Hart Paul , van Ham Carolien 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This introductory chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics offers two ‘snapshots’ of Dutch society and its political system. The first, set in 1963, documents the heyday of the politics of accommodation (as made famous by Arend Lijphart’s classic case study of Dutch political life). The other captures the present moment, 60 years on, and suggests that although there has been great constitutional and institutional stability in the intervening decades, the significant demographic, socio-economic, and cultural changes in Dutch society that have taken place have left their mark on how the Dutch political system operates. In addition, the chapter surveys how the study of Dutch politics—conducted mainly but certainly not exclusively by political scientists—has evolved over this same period. In the final part of the chapter, the design of the Handbook is presented and explained. The chapter ends by briefly showcasing what the six constituent thematic parts offer.
Regional Politics in the Netherlands
Authors: Boogers Marcel , Peters Klaartje 
Published: January 2025

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Regional politics as such does not exist in the Netherlands. The national debate about the governance of regional challenges (i.e. between the provincial and the municipal level) has never resulted in the establishment of regional government. The main vehicle for regional governance is intermunicipal cooperation, embodied in intermunicipal cooperatives (IMCs) or more informal cooperation arrangements. Although no reliable figures about the total number of intermunicipal cooperatives and arrangements are available, it is clear that the phenomenon has steadily increased in recent decades. In all of these arrangements, the municipal executives are dominant in the regional decision-making process, but how decisions are made and interests are weighed has not been studied. In the IMCs, based on public law, local councils have limited powers to be informed and consulted about budgets and policy proposals, but all research shows that local councillors experience little influence and a lot of distance to politics on the regional level. This apparent lack of democratic legitimacy of intermunicipal governance has often been mentioned, but no easy solutions exist.
Political Participation at the National and Local Levels in the Netherlands
Authors: den Ridder Josje , van Ostaaijen Julien 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter deals with political participation in the Netherlands. We show that voting in elections is by far the most common mode of political participation. Turnout at national elections remains high, largely because citizens see politics at the national level as the most relevant to their daily lives. Research demonstrates that there is no overall decline in levels of political participation. However, inequality in who participates remains high and new modes of (online) participation bridge this gap only to a very limited extent. Although many Dutch citizens find it important that citizens can have a say in politics, not everyone wants to participate. Future research into this topic should include new forms of political participation in an increasingly digital and globalized world. It should also focus on the consequences of (non-)participation for representative democracy, policy outcomes, and citizens, and pay (more) attention to how political inequality resulting from unequal political participation can be resolved.
The Politics of the Policymaking Process in the Netherlands
Authors: ’t Hart Paul 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter provides a general introduction to the politics of public policymaking in the Netherlands. It maps and discusses the cross-cutting institutions and mechanisms that provide rules of the game and structure interactions in the policy process. It presents key recurrent characteristics of Dutch policymaking processes and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. Its arguments include that—although it has become progressively more difficult during the last decade—forging compromises on contentious issues across political divides and with regard for minority viewpoints has continued to be the oil that lubricates the fractured and potentially fractious arenas of Dutch policymaking. The chapter then discusses the evolution of Dutch public policy scholarship. It concludes by arguing the need for rebuilding the country’s once strong policy capacity and by suggesting two avenues for future research.
Economic Policy and Politics in the Netherlands
Authors: van Vliet Olaf , Caminada Koen , Goudswaard Kees 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter describes the politics of Dutch economic policy. After highlighting the main characteristics of the Dutch economy, the authors provide an overview of the evolution of economic policy since the 1980s. Whereas fiscal policies were politically and economically important in the 1970s and 1980s, structural reforms have gained more ground in economic policy since the end of the twentieth century. The authors zoom in on two such reforms, namely of the housing market and the pension system, which are exemplary for contemporary Dutch economic policy. Building on a review of literature on the politics of economic policy, they conclude the chapter by identifying a number of directions for future research. In particular, they highlight the implications of some recent phenomena in the Netherlands, such as increasing expenditure on health care, the challenges in the housing market, the ageing population, and the green transition.
The Evolving Dutch Welfare State
Authors: van Hooren Franca , Vis Barbara 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter sketches the development of the Dutch welfare state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It shows how the Dutch welfare state went from being a laggard in comparative perspective in the early twentieth century to one of the frontrunners in the decades after the Second World War. While the welfare state subsequently kept some of its main features, there were also significant reforms characterized by the privatization of risks, the marketization of services, and the activation of benefit recipients. The chapter zooms in on the insights derived from recent scholarship on the politics of welfare reform and gendered critiques of welfare state research. These explain some of the puzzles around the timing and shape of Dutch welfare state development and reform. The chapter highlights how the importance of confessional forces in party politics contributed to a welfare state firmly built on the Christian ideal of a male breadwinner model, explores explanations for reform and retrenchment of popular social policies, and identifies a gap in terms of intersectional and postcolonial welfare state analysis. The final section points at digitalization as a key topic for future welfare state research.