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Learning to Stand on its own Two Feet: The Office for Students and the Crisis in Higher Education in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 206-210, January/March 2025.
Abstract In order to address an ever‐growing crisis in higher education in England, policy makers need tools capable of meeting the challenge. Yet the Office for Students has been roundly criticised for its shortcomings as a regulator for the sector, weakening the response to its plethora of problems.
Timothy J. Oliver
wiley   +1 more source

School shootings and the strategic contributions of gun policy PACs in US House elections. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Baldwin EA, Iwasaki T, Donohue JJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

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
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping political commitments: Analysing health priorities in Indian election manifestos. [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care
Rajeev BR, Ram A, Nivedhya R, Das SS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Political economy of primary health care resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean: insights from the WB/PAHO Commission recommendations. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Báscolo E, Houghton N, Bennett S.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Rushed health workforce reform in South Korea: a Kingdon's multiple streams framework analysis of the 2024 medical school quota expansion. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Lee Y, Shin HY.
europepmc   +1 more source

Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
wiley   +1 more source

Abortion in Africa: diverging paths of DR Congo and Nigeria under the Maputo Protocol. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Makelele AM, Kalyoko BM, Shimilimo A, Solomon MT, Mambo SB, Bampoque I, Obajimi GO.   +6 more
europepmc   +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