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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a practitioner‐scholar reflection on the 2026 Tower Hamlets local elections, in which the Aspire party secured thirty‐three of forty‐five council seats, the Labour Party was reduced to five and the Green Party emerged as an equal opposition force.
Gulay Icoz
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article applies a democratic professional lens to John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State: Weapons of the Meek at the Frontlines of Public Services (OUP, 2026). Democratic professionalism is defined as an approach that enables public services professionals to work more democratically with clients and other public ...
Jane Lethbridge
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Microfinance & Austerity- No Womens' Empowerment without Community Involvement
, 2017 How austerity policies and microfinance can bankrupt rather than empower women.
Girón, Alicia
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FISCAL AUSTERITY POLICY IMPACT ON WELFARE
Review of Innovation and Competitiveness, 2017 The ongoing global financial and economic crisis has caused a dramatic fall in growth, increased deficit, higher unemployment rates and strong price fluctuations.
Romina Pržiklas Družeta +1 more
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The Impact of Fourteen Years of UK Conservative Government Policy on Open Access Youth Work
YouthThis article reviews the impacts of the UK Conservative Party’s government policies on ‘open access youth work’ since 2010, giving particular attention to the period since 2018 and to impacts in England.
Bernard Davies
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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley +2 more
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PROCESSES AND EFFECTS OF POST-SOCIALIST NEOLIBERALIZATION
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2015 Our thematic block was initially announced by the journal Studia Europaea as a special issue regarding the social effects of austerity. This title could suggest that the guest editors would have liked addressing austerity policies as a technical matter ...
Enikő VINCZE
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Ageing is a Political Economy Problem
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Pensions Commission's 2026 interim report is right about the scale of the demographic transformation underway and about the gaps in current arrangements. But it largely treats ageing as a fiscal, adequacy and design problem, when it is fundamentally a political economy problem shaped by two constraints.
Tim Vlandas
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Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity
, 2017 The suffering generated by the politics of so-called ‘austerity’ in Spain, together with the country’s history, political tradition and socio-demographic characteristics, has led to growing questioning of the implementation of such policies.
Pedro Carañana, Joan
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A Machiavellian Moment? Devolution and the New Politics of Place
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Cabinet statement, Rewiring the State, published in July 2026, promises a radical devolution of the British state and a remaking of territorial politics. We review this development and assess its political and historical significance. We argue that the present conjuncture is distinctive because claims of the English North are driving a new
Kevin Morgan, John Tomaney
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