Leveraging content producer networks and user perception to detect online discursive communities. [PDF]
Guarino S +3 more
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How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent
Abstract Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place‐based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent.
Gerry Stoker +3 more
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Time to start a research agenda on electoral integrity within political organizations. [PDF]
Villaplana FR +4 more
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The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer
Abstract Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the underlying cause.
Tahir Abbas
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From Protest to Pluralist? The Green Party of England and Wales after a Decade of Political Upheaval
Abstract The 2026 English local elections marked the strongest ever performance of the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW). This article places that success in the context of a decade of political upheaval and research into the party. It argues that the GPEW has grown by layering successive issue publics—anti‐austerity, Brexit and Gaza—onto an ...
James Dennison
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Disinformation and Democracy on the Docket: Reformulating the Approach to Electoral Disinformation under the ECHR. [PDF]
Pentney K, Shattock E.
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A Parliament for All: Lessons from the Scottish Parliament's Gender‐Sensitive Audit
Abstract In 2022, the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament announced a gender‐sensitive parliament (GSP) audit of women's representation and participation. The audit made thirty‐four recommendations, including establishing a GSP Advisory Group to drive institutional change.
Meryl Kenny, Sarah Childs
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The Malaysian Election Corpus (MECo): Federal and State-Level Election Results from 1955 to 2025. [PDF]
Thevananthan T.
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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament
Abstract The Liberal Democrats emerged from the 2024 election with their largest parliamentary party since 1923. The 2026 elections saw further progress in English local government and Scottish parliamentary elections, with support consolidating in areas of strength.
David Howarth
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