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Volume 97, Issue 3

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Volume 97, Issue 3

Includes a collection on 'The Political Economy of Tourism', edited by Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni. Contributions include a piece on climate change in tourism-intensive Alpine regions by Valentina Ausserladscheider; Fathimath Musthaq's comparison between restrictions on tourism in the Seychelles and the Maldives; and Lorenzo Mascioli's investigation into how public policy can be used to make local tourism more sustainable. In our opening commentary, Deborah Mabbett reflects that good policy making is often a tedious process. Other articles include Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen and John Bartle on Labour's "Red–Green electoral threat"; Eda Bektas, Korhan Mühürcüoğlu on the paradox of power in Turkey; and Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka on Labour's home-building plans. Book reviews include Stephen Coleman's assessment of Matthew Goodwin's latest book, 'Suicide of a Nation'.

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The 2026 Elections and their Aftermath

The elections of 2026 in Scotland, Wales, and across much of England were politically explosive. In Westminster, the disastrous performance of the governing Labour Party precipitated the fall of Keir Starmer and the accession of Andy Burnham. Their Conservative rivals went backwards, underlining the continued existential threats facing Europe's oldest political party. Challenger parties on the left and right, meanwhile, surged and the Welsh government is now, as in Scotland and Northern Ireland, led by a nationalist party. In this special collection, political scientists, historians, and commentators dissect and contextualise these elections and their aftermath, drawing out the key insights for understanding the past, present and future of British politics.

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Symposium on John Boswell’s 'How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State'

When commentators worry about the state of our democracy, they usually worry about voting behaviour: whether citizens vote at all, and whether they vote for parties which promote division and conflict rather than searching for common ground. John Boswell’s book, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State starts from the insight that citizens mainly encounter the state in places other than the polling booth.

Boswell finds the sources of democratic disaffection in public services put under stress by austerity, and shows the limitations and even counter-productiveness of the coping mechanisms that people adopt. In this collection, Boswell and his interlocutors reflect on what we can learn about our democracy, and how to improve it, when we focus on quotidian interactions with state agencies.

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