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The 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
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The activities of Democrat Party goverments in socio-economic fields (1950-1960)
, 2007 Demokrat Parti, cumhuriyet dönemi Türk siyasî hayatında, çok partili siyasî hayata geçis döneminin ve bu dönemin seçimle is basına gelen büyük bir partisidir. Kurulusundan 6 ay sonra yapılan ilk genel seçimlerde hazırlıksız olmasına ragmen, ana muhalefet
Dikilitaş, Osman Sait
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Why the Republican Party should pray for rain this November [PDF]
, 2018 Conventional wisdom suggests that bad weather benefits the Republican Party because it lowers turnout in general, but particularly among the Democrats.
Horiuchi, Yusaku, Kang, Woo Chang
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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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National Woman's Party press release, July 19, 1920
, 1920 This is a press release by Alice Paul, following a conference with Governor James M. Cox (1870-1957) on July 19, 1920. Paul states that the conference with Governor Cox went well and that they discussed the fact that he was a democrat and could help with
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
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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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The Origins of Conservative Turkey : A Social History of the Democrat Party (1946-1960).
, 2017 Ce travail propose une sociologie historique du Parti démocrate turc, qui est fondé en 1946, arrive au pouvoir en 1950, et y reste jusqu’à un coup d’Etat de l’armée, en 1960.
Garapon, Béatrice
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Different Process, Different Outcomes: A Response to Cowley, Webb and Bale
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper responds to Cowley, Webb and Bale's critique of our paper on sortition, parties and political careers. Cowley et al. argue that within‐party sortition will not increase parliamentary descriptive representation (PDR). We largely agree with that claim, which was not the focus of our original paper.
Keith Dowding +2 more
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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