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Constituent Rights and the Right to Strike

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks what it would mean for a strike not merely to exercise, demand, or claim rights but to constitute a right through its own existence. Developing the concept of constituent rights in relation to the strike, I describe a mode of existence in which the collective power to act coincides with the right to act.
Morgan Björö
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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
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Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
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Values versus Tactics: The Liberal Democrat Predicament

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
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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A Machiavellian Moment? Devolution and the New Politics of Place

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Cabinet statement, Rewiring the State, published in July 2026, promises a radical devolution of the British state and a remaking of territorial politics. We review this development and assess its political and historical significance. We argue that the present conjuncture is distinctive because claims of the English North are driving a new
Kevin Morgan, John Tomaney
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Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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