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The Psychopolitics of Austerity: democracy, youth and civil protest
Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 2015 This article explores the psychopolitics of austerity with particular reference to Greece and Ireland. It also analyses the relationship between austerity, democracy and civil protest.
Fred Powell
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Administration, 2019 Policies fail or succeed for many reasons. These reasons include the decisionmaking process, which depends on the interplay of interests, as well as ideology and information.
Kiernan Fiona
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
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Who Undermines the Welfare State? Austerity-Dogmatism and the U-Turn in Swedish Asylum Policy
Social Inclusion, 2018 Within the EU, the so-called “refugee crisis” has been predominantly dealt with as an ill-timed and untenable financial burden. Since the 2007–08 financial crisis, the overarching objective of policy initiatives by EU-governments has been to keep public ...
Simone Scarpa, Carl-Ulrik Schierup
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Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Austerity Pasts, Austerity Futures?
, 2016 What are the conditions under which the meaning of the signifier ‘austerity’ might be reworked for environmental ends? Could the concept of ‘austerity’ describe a mode of living that is compatible with the challenges of working towards transition and degrowth?
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
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Had austerity not happened, Leave support could have been up to 10 lower
, 2018 A series of cuts since the Coalition government curtailed the welfare state, activating this way a range of existing economic grievances. As a result, in districts that received the average austerity shock UKIP vote shares were up, compared to districts ...
Fetzer, Thiemo
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