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‘Surge‐and‐Collapse’ under First Past the Post: Reform UK's Electoral Threat to the Conservative Party

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 707-715, October/December 2025.
Abstract Could the Conservative Party lose its status as one of the two major parties in the British party system and be supplanted by Reform UK? Such collapses are rare under the first‐past‐the‐post electoral system, but not unknown. We consider Alan Ware's argument that major‐party collapses follow a catastrophic election defeat after a party finds ...
Thomas Quinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Britain's media biased against the left? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
No abstract ...
Philo, Gregory
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Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
wiley   +1 more source

Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 4, Page 1505-1518, October 2025.
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
wiley   +1 more source

Jeremy Corbyn’s rise shows the true value of political parties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The process that led to the election of Jeremy Corbyn was so important because it questioned the model of political parties as electoral machines.
Ypi, Lea
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How do masses react to party polarization? Limited effect of party polarization on mass polarization

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 1533-1548, August 2025.
Abstract Elite ideological polarization is rising in Western democracies. Is this elite ideological polarization associated with mass ideological polarization? I argue that when a party adopts a more extreme position, the masses polarize via two mechanisms.
SEMIH ÇAKıR
wiley   +1 more source

The long read: blue labour in the age of Corbyn by J.A. Smith [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Following the results of the latest leadership vote on Saturday 24 September 2016, Jeremy Corbyn remains leader of the Labour Party. Yet, the ‘Blue Labour’ strain is also far from over – a tendency grouped around the social thought of Maurice Glasman ...
Smith, J.A.
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Exploring leadership on Instagram: A visual model for online leadership analysis

open access: yesJournal of Digital Social Research
Online visual communication is becoming an established and central component of citizens’ everyday life. User activity on large-scale platforms, such as Instagram, can be mapped by tracing the rise and fall of communities of practice that share ...
Michele Martini
doaj   +1 more source

Ripping the public apart? Politicians’ dark personality and affective polarization

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 1575-1588, August 2025.
Abstract Growing evidence exists about the importance of dark personality traits – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in political leaders, broadly leading to heightened political aggressiveness and partisan conflict. Building on this expanding research agenda, we study the possible association between dark personality in politicians and ...
ALESSANDRO NAI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reality Winners

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 153-195, December 2025.
Lee Grieveson
wiley   +1 more source

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