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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

From Protest to Pluralist? The Green Party of England and Wales after a Decade of Political Upheaval

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2026 English local elections marked the strongest ever performance of the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW). This article places that success in the context of a decade of political upheaval and research into the party. It argues that the GPEW has grown by layering successive issue publics—anti‐austerity, Brexit and Gaza—onto an ...
James Dennison
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy, Representation and Local Governance in Crisis: Reflections on the 2026 Tower Hamlets Elections

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
wiley   +1 more source

Buying Greenland

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 5-7, January/March 2025.
Deborah Mabbett
wiley   +1 more source

Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Liberal Democrats emerged from the 2024 election with their largest parliamentary party since 1923. The 2026 elections saw further progress in English local government and Scottish parliamentary elections, with support consolidating in areas of strength.
David Howarth
wiley   +1 more source

Why Compulsory Voting is Not the Answer

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral turnout in the UK is low and uneven. This has led to renewed interest in compulsory voting, which has been advocated in recent reports from The Constitution Society, Labour Together, and the Institute for Public Policy Research. This article offers a critical perspective on these proposals.
Ben Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley, Dillon Wamsley, Joseph Ward   +2 more
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