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A Family Affair: The Uses and Abuses of Vicarious Identity in Political Rhetoric During the 2024 General Election

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
wiley   +1 more source

The Red–Green Electoral Threat to the Labour Party

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For the first time, Labour faces credible electoral threats from minor parties to its left. The Greens and the newly formed Your Party offer left‐wing and Muslim voters disillusioned with Labour viable electoral alternatives and parliamentary representation. This article considers how great the threat is to Labour. It uses a model of how minor
Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen, John Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selecting the labour leader: from the electoral college to closed primaries

QOE-IJES, 2018
The article aims at assessing the functioning and characteristics of the most recent systems employed by the British Labour Party for selecting its leader. To this end I compared five leadership races: the huge success of Tony Blair in 1994 in the newly
Giulia Vicentini
doaj   +1 more source

Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

Jeremy Corbyn according to the BBC: ideological representation and identity construction of the Labour Party leader

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2017
There have been many complaints that the BBC coverage of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn has been partial and biased. This paper is part of an interdisciplinary project on the television representation of Jeremy Corbyn that brings together scholars in the ...
Roberta Piazza, Paul Lashmar
doaj  

A Corpus Study of Brexit Political Discourse: Exploring Modality through Lexical Modals

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
This paper aims to analyse the lexical modals used in the political speeches given by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn during the final months of the Brexit process.
Encarnación Almazán Ruiz, Aroa Orrequia-Barea   +1 more
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Literary Theory after Populism

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
The article proposes three theses on the status of literary and critical theory after the populist incursions of the “long 2016.” First: that an already-ailing “theory” failed to distinguish itself from professional class anti-populism during the ...
James A. Smith
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
wiley   +1 more source

NEGATIVE POLITENESS STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION IN THE MODERN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SPEECHES BY B. JOHNSON AND D. CORBYN)

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020
Purpose. The article is devoted to a topical issue of the use of particular linguistic features of the negative politeness strategy implementation in the political discourse.
Natalia Alexandrovna Ladonina
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A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent Policy Subsystems Toward Stable Advocacy Coalitions, With Evidence From the UK's Response to COVID‐19

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the pursuit of influencing policy making in their favor.
Kristijan Garic, Philip Leifeld
wiley   +1 more source