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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
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The Post-Brexit EU as a Global Actor: Reconsidering Security [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2020 The departure of the UK left the EU not only without its second largest economy, but also without one of its two nuclear powers – with a permanent seat in the Security Council – and without an important member state of NATO – a global security provider ...
Valentin Naumescu
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Air services at risk: The threat of a hard Brexit at the airport level [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018 The potential impacts of Brexit on transportation have been discussed to some extent, mostly considering the economic shock as a main factor that would affect the volume of passenger and cargo flows. However, one should also consider the expected impact in terms of regulatory regimes.
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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
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Brexit has the semblance of a new English Civil War [PDF]
, 2018 Brexit may be coming, but the terms are far from clear. In the range between the Norwegian model (membership in the customs union and single market without political participation) and a hard Brexit severing all ties with the EU, and even the long run ...
Collignon, Stefan
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, 2020 Last month’s General Election has further exposed the fault lines dividing Britain and, at the risk of sounding like Cassandra, it’s hard to see how the country can come back from this.
Hearne, David
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach +2 more
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Hard Brexit? Only if it’s free [PDF]
, 2016 Lowering immigration was the key motivation behind the Brexit vote, and how to achieve it dominates the current political debate. Drawing on new data, Eric Kaufmann analyses the propsects of support for a hard and a soft Brexit, based on how much Britons
Kaufmann, Eric
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The university challenge: what would an Intelligent Brexit look like? [PDF]
, 2017 The EU brought invaluable networks for research and collaboration to the UK. More than that, it fostered a shared democratic culture of openness and tolerance. But these links will have to change as Britain pursues a hard Brexit.
Gordon, Claire E, Corbett, Anne
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The Effects of Recent Polarized Elections on Mental Health
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Researchers investigate how recent elections in the United States have influenced mental health, especially among political‐ and policy‐based election losers. The previous two presidential elections worsened the self‐reported mental health of Americans on average. Likely partisan election losers and those who had the most to lose in terms
MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD, BETHANY ALBERTSON
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