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The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
wiley   +1 more source

Why the WASPI has no Sting: Gender, Generation and Pension Inequalities

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Since 2015, Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has campaigned tirelessly for ‘justice’ for the millions of 1950s‐born women adversely affected by the raising and equalisation of the state pension age (SPA). Yet, to date, no compensation has been paid.
Helen McCarthy
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing Brexit: Implications for the Electricity System of Great Britain

open access: yesEnergies, 2019
The UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) has potential ramifications for the country’s electricity sector, given its increasing interlinkage with other EU electricity systems.
Philip Mayer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brexit and the mythologies of nationalism: a warning for Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Richard Marsden explores the historical distinctions between nationalist movements in Scotland, Ireland and Wales - and what this means for the UK after ...
Marsden, Richard
core  

Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘good chaps’ theory of government relies on officeholders understanding and adhering to implicit lines preventing corruption and abuse of power. Boris Johnson's prime ministership showed some weaknesses in this approach. Recent global experience, especially with the re‐election of Donald Trump, suggests the UK may need stronger backstops ...
Tom Nicholls
wiley   +1 more source

The cynical thinking behind Hungary’s bizarre referendum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Encouraged by Brexit, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is using xenophobia to whip up support for his questionable anti-refugee referendum to be held on 2nd October ...
Culik, Jan
core  

Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology [PDF]

open access: green, 2016
Sarah Green   +28 more
openalex   +1 more source

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

open access: yesInstitute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, 2019
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world: the share of discussions in quarterly earnings conference calls on costs, benefits, and risks ...
T. Hassan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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