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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
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the black box of the Spanish legislative Process: The Legislative Amendments Dataset (1996-2023). [PDF]

Data Brief
Palau AM, Casas A, Muñoz L, Rodilla A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal fractional order PID-load frequency controller for multi-interconnected microgrids including renewable energy and storage system. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alshahir A, Fathy A, A Hashim F, Wang K, Alshahr S, Ali HH.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Kingdom's emergence as a public sector pioneer in the four‐day working week debate presents a striking paradox. A post‐Thatcher liberal market economy hostile to statutory working‐time reform might be expected to resist government‐sponsored working‐time reduction in the public sector.
Joan Sanchis, Raúl de Arriba
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing the engagement with pandemic preparedness, prevention and response in selected English language political manifestoes in 2024. [PDF]

Glob Health Action
Wenham C, Potluru A.
europepmc   +1 more source

German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

Has the Moment for Electoral Reform at Westminster Finally Arrived?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise to power of Andy Burnham, a vocal critic of first past the post, has put Westminster electoral reform back on the political agenda. This article examines the case for reforming the voting system, why it has strengthened in recent years, why efforts have failed before and what this tells us about the necessary conditions for reform: a ...
Robert Ford
wiley   +1 more source

EUPopLink Country report - Ireland. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Mc Donnell R, Fanoulis E.
europepmc   +1 more source

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