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What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Kingdom's emergence as a public sector pioneer in the four‐day working week debate presents a striking paradox. A post‐Thatcher liberal market economy hostile to statutory working‐time reform might be expected to resist government‐sponsored working‐time reduction in the public sector.
Joan Sanchis, Raúl de Arriba
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Consequences of the Arendtian Space of Freedom

Constellations, EarlyView.
Seung‐Hwan Hong
wiley   +1 more source

German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections

Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
wiley   +1 more source

The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
wiley   +1 more source

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, Daisy Blackburn, Nick Clarke, Will Jennings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the underlying cause.
Tahir Abbas
wiley   +1 more source

A Parliament for All: Lessons from the Scottish Parliament's Gender‐Sensitive Audit

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2022, the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament announced a gender‐sensitive parliament (GSP) audit of women's representation and participation. The audit made thirty‐four recommendations, including establishing a GSP Advisory Group to drive institutional change.
Meryl Kenny, Sarah Childs
wiley   +1 more source