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‘Surge‐and‐Collapse’ under First Past the Post: Reform UK's Electoral Threat to the Conservative Party

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 707-715, October/December 2025.
Abstract Could the Conservative Party lose its status as one of the two major parties in the British party system and be supplanted by Reform UK? Such collapses are rare under the first‐past‐the‐post electoral system, but not unknown. We consider Alan Ware's argument that major‐party collapses follow a catastrophic election defeat after a party finds ...
Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen, John Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vers de nouvelles formes générationnelles d’engagement au Parti travailliste britannique ?

Revue LISA
Between 2015 and 2020, the Labour Party, a traditional social-democratic political party led at the time by Jeremy Corbyn, an uncharismatic man in his late sixties, benefitted from a high level of popularity among young people in Britain.
Nicolas Jara-Joly, Denis Rayer
doaj   +1 more source

Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 4, Page 1505-1518, October 2025.
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
wiley   +1 more source

When “Positive Posting” Attracts Voters: User Engagement and Emotions in the 2017 UK Election Campaign on Facebook

Social Media + Society, 2019
Social media are widely held to have played an important role in the 2017 UK general elections. But it is not altogether clear how exactly they contributed to the communication battle between Labour and the Conservatives.
Paolo Gerbaudo, Federico Marogna, Chiara Alzetta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The subjunctive alternation in Indian English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 439-455, September 2025.
Abstract The study at hand is an exploration of the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent modal construction with the verb should in Indian English. The study complements the growing body of research on the morphosyntax of the variety and it enhances our understanding of the relatively under‐researched alternation.
Karola Schmidt
wiley   +1 more source

Reality Winners

Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 153-195, December 2025.
Lee Grieveson
wiley   +1 more source

Speech Behaviour of Introvert and Extrovert Personality Types in the Parliamentary Discourse

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
The paper deals with the peculiarities of British politicians' speech behaviour in the frames of the parliamentary discourse. The research is based on the scripted monologic speeches and spontaneous dialogic speeches given by Prime Minister Teresa May ...
Olga V. Popova
doaj   +1 more source

Jeremy Corbyn and Maximilien Robespierre

, 2015
Has anyone else noticed the uncanny resemblance between Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Labour Party – and Maximilien Robespierre? (Robespierre, that is, before the Terror, I don’t mean to imply that Jeremy Corbyn is going to support the ...
marisalinton
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Exploring leadership on Instagram: A visual model for online leadership analysis

Journal of Digital Social Research
Online visual communication is becoming an established and central component of citizens’ everyday life. User activity on large-scale platforms, such as Instagram, can be mapped by tracing the rise and fall of communities of practice that share ...
Michele Martini
doaj   +1 more source

How did social media help Corbyn win the Labour leadership? [PDF]

, 2016
On 12 September 2015 Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, a result which would’ve been dismissed as mere fantasy in the days after the general election four months earlier.
Prince, Rosa
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