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The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
wiley   +1 more source

Why the WASPI has no Sting: Gender, Generation and Pension Inequalities

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Since 2015, Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has campaigned tirelessly for ‘justice’ for the millions of 1950s‐born women adversely affected by the raising and equalisation of the state pension age (SPA). Yet, to date, no compensation has been paid.
Helen McCarthy
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of child maltreatment in a nationwide sample of 18 to 31 year-olds in Germany. [PDF]

open access: yesChild Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health
Kasinger C   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Rules of the Coronation: Differentiating Convention from Practice and Custom

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The coronation of a new monarch is a constitutional event governed by unwritten rules. To understand which aspects of the coronation are constitutionally significant—and which are better understood as the product of tradition or novel approaches—this article examines how three types of unwritten rules structure the ceremony: conventions ...
Carolyn S. Harris, Philippe Lagassé
wiley   +1 more source

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

Revisionism as Statecraft: David Marquand, the SDP Split and the Politics of Community

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article addresses a surprisingly neglected aspect of David Marquand's intellectual development: his career as a politician. Hence, it locates his intellectual efforts from the mid‐1970s through to the end of the 1980s in relation to the travails of the Wilson and Callaghan governments.
Nick Garland
wiley   +1 more source

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