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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
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
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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
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Neoliberalism in Britain [PDF]
The Conservative Party has in the 2015 British general elections won an absolute majority under David Cameron’s leadership. Cameron’s rule signifies an important phase in British politics in the 21st century.
Fuchs, Christian, Fuchs, Christian
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United Kingdom: Political Developments and Data in 2024
Abstract Rather than a widely expected autumn election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called one to be held on 4 July. His Conservative Party were reduced to just 121 seats, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer became the new Prime Minister. The change in administration led to some significant policy shifts towards the latter half of the year—in particular,
ALIA MIDDLETON
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Generation Left after Corbynism [PDF]
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party has allowed age to emerge as a dramatic new axis of political division. This article treats the political generation gap as, in part, a transformation in class composition. Most notably, starting with the political age divide makes recognition of a shift toward an asset-based economy hard to avoid.
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Corbynism’s conveyor belt of ideas:Postcapitalism and the politics of social reproduction [PDF]
In this reflection, we assess the theoretical faultline running through the contested current of Corbynist thought and politics at present. On one hand, we find a techno-utopian strand preoccupied with automation and the end of work.
Dinerstein, Ana C +1 more
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Why major party reforms had to be sidelined during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership [PDF]
Bradley Ward argues that while Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was initially drawn towards a more grassroots vision of rank-and-file democracy, this came into tension with the demands facing the leadership in the context of intense intra-party factionalism ...
Ward, Bradley
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Short Abstract The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working‐class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by London's ‘metropolitan elite’. I theorise the contemporary English North–South divide as a form of ‘splitting’, a psycho‐spatial strategy ...
Saskia Papadakis
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Left Behind, Looking Forward’: The 2019 General Election, the Red Wall and the Labour Party [PDF]
In December 2019, the Labour Party suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1935. This brought about a substantial loss of seats in the North and Midlands, Labour’s Red Wall, previously considered the party’s loyal heartlands.
Rothery, J., Rothery, J.
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Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings
Abstract The ideological fit between party grassroots and leaderships has long been a concern for political science, with members in general, and young members in particular, thought to be more radical. However, we do not know, first, whether this is still the case and, if it is, what drives members in different ideological directions.
DUNCAN MCDONNELL +8 more
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