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Weaponizing Culture: The Role of Illiberal Cultural Policy in Slovenia’s Democratic Backsliding
Politics and GovernanceThe weaponization of cultural policy is one of the crucial, yet underexplored strategies of illiberal political actors. This article investigates the multifaceted illiberal cultural policy measures employed to polarize society, influence the ...
Kristina Čufar, Hana Hawlina
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies)This study aims to analyze the failure of Egypt’s democratic transition after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, emphasizing the dynamics of authoritarian resilience and discursive co-optation in shaping the pseudo-legitimacy of the post-revolution regime ...
Sangidu Sangidu +2 more
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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Rethinking 'Democratic Backsliding' in Central and Eastern Europe
, 2019 This book seeks to inject fresh thinking into the debate on democratic deterioration in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), viewing ‘democratic backsliding’ through the prism of a range of cases beyond Hungary and Poland, to redress the imbalance in ...
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How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place‐based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent.
Gerry Stoker +3 more
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Gendered backsliding: anti-gender politics as a mechanism of democratic erosion in South Korea
Frontiers in Political ScienceIntroductionThis article examines how anti-gender mobilization functions as a diagnostic indicator of democratic erosion in South Korea. While much of the backsliding literature focuses on institutional decline, this study highlights how democratic ...
Eunbin Chung +3 more
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A new theoretical framework of democratic backsliding
Most of the works on democratic backsliding have so far analysed the causes of the deterioration of democratic standards, sometimes proposing corrective mechanisms, but few works have focused on the real meaning of the concept, on the specific trend of ...
PISCIOTTA B
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a practitioner‐scholar reflection on the 2026 Tower Hamlets local elections, in which the Aspire party secured thirty‐three of forty‐five council seats, the Labour Party was reduced to five and the Green Party emerged as an equal opposition force.
Gulay Icoz
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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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