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Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘good chaps’ theory of government relies on officeholders understanding and adhering to implicit lines preventing corruption and abuse of power. Boris Johnson's prime ministership showed some weaknesses in this approach. Recent global experience, especially with the re‐election of Donald Trump, suggests the UK may need stronger backstops ...
Tom Nicholls
wiley   +1 more source

David Marquand and Progressive Politics

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Throughout his career, David Marquand grappled with the shape of modern British history, arranging it into different traditions, lineages and timelines. The Progressive Dilemma was the culmination of one such strand of work, centred around his interest in the relationship between social democracy and social liberalism.
Emily Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

“Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers”: Iwanaga Maki, Social Welfare Pioneer, and the jūjikai Women's Religious Order

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

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