Designing Deliberative Lobbying: Three Institutional Solutions for an Open Lobby Democracy
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Debates on lobbying regulation have focused overwhelmingly on transparency, yet disclosure alone does little to address the deeper democratic challenges of unequal power, narrow representation and public distrust. This article argues that lobbying regulation should be designed not only to make influence visible, but also to make it fairer and ...
Alberto Bitonti
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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Different Process, Same Outcome? The Problems of Within‐Party Sortition
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract A recent article in Political Quarterly argues for a ‘sortition of candidature’. We show that because political parties are not themselves socially representative, such a scheme would not result in a socially representative Parliament. Drawing on data from the Party Members Project, we show that while some demographic groups would be better ...
Philip Cowley, Paul Webb, Tim Bale
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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 +2 more
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Political partisanship and perceived partisan threat relate to simple trust decisions. [PDF]
Cogn Res Princ ImplicCassidy BS +4 more
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach +2 more
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Converting the "union curious"? Rights-based, pro-worker arguments and Republican support for expanding collective bargaining: The case of the Illinois Workers' Rights Amendment. [PDF]
PLoS OneWaterbury NW, Wade MM, Simmons AJ.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Elites moved toward democrats more than nonelites moved away: Income, education, and occupational class in US presidential elections, 1980-2020. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AVilbig K, England P.
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