The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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How Can Labour Tackle Poverty in London?
Abstract This article examines the challenges that London faces in garnering attention for its problems associated with inequality from the Labour government. A combination of a shortage of resources and the growing threat of Reform UK makes focusing specifically on tackling poverty in London a difficult political challenge for Labour. Initial attempts
Graeme Atherton
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Public Inquiries and UK Press Regulation: A Case of ‘Fading into Forgetfulness’?
Abstract Why were the proposals for reform of UK press regulation made by Lord Leveson in 2012 not implemented in full, despite popular and parliamentary support for the report's recommendations, and despite the creation of the legal framework for the reformed system of regulation?
John Street +2 more
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Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations
Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
David Blagden +2 more
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?
Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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Vaccination readiness and political party preference in Germany: Trust, collective responsibility, and the populist radical right. [PDF]
Magnus KD, Dammann N, Lüdecke D.
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Different Process, Same Outcome? The Problems of Within‐Party Sortition
Abstract A recent article in Political Quarterly argues for a ‘sortition of candidature’. We show that because political parties are not themselves socially representative, such a scheme would not result in a socially representative Parliament. Drawing on data from the Party Members Project, we show that while some demographic groups would be better ...
Philip Cowley, Paul Webb, Tim Bale
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Is a single model enough? The systematic comparison of computational approaches for detecting populist radical right content. [PDF]
Makhortykh M +7 more
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