AmnisThe British Labour Party, under its 2015-2020 leader, Jeremy Corbyn was harshly divided between the Corbynites at the head of the party, supporting radical left-wing views, and the local Blairite councillors, supporting moderate views.
Marie-Pierre Vincent
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Reading list: 6 key books to read for the Labour Party Conference 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 The Labour Party Conference 2014 takes place in Manchester from Sunday 21 September to Wednesday 24 September. All eyes will be on Ed Milband as new policies are revealed and debated ahead of next year’s general election.
Book Reviews, LSE
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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The policy of social reformism of New Labour of Great Britain in the 90th of the XX century
RUDN Journal of World History, 2010 This article explores the social policies of New Labour the Great Britain at the end of the 20th century. The Labour Party reviewed the experience of Liberals, Traditional Labour and Conservatives social policy and developed the way of social ...
E V Davidenko
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Political Stability, Equilibrium and Disruption: The Dynamics of the British Party System
Revue Française de Civilisation BritanniqueThis article analyses the evolution of the British party system from 1951 to 2024, tracing its transition from a stable two-party structure to a more fragmented multidimensional system.
Richard Rose
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Political parties which operate in a direct democratic context tend to have a higher number of members [PDF]
, 2016 Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party has seen him crowdsource questions for his weekly parliamentary question time with David Cameron, with many praising both this and his other attempts to democratise the Labour Party’s operations.
Peters, Yvette
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition [PDF]
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Should we just leave the selection of the party leader to MPs? [PDF]
, 2016 From 1922-1980, Labour leaders were elected by MPs in a secret ballot. While there are superficially attractive reasons for the increased trend towards democratising party leadership elections, Richard Johnson questions whether it has really given us ...
Johnson, Richard
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