Articles by Alan Ware

The Making of Empirical Political Science in the UK: Jean Blondel, David Butler and Peter Pulzer

The Making of Empirical Political Science in the UK: Jean Blondel, David Butler and Peter Pulzer

Three academics with an exceptional impact on how the empirical study of politics developed in the UK.

Why Donald Trump was Nominated by the Republicans

One of the most controversial nominations in American electoral history.

Why Grammar Schools? Why Social Mobility?

While St Augustine supposedly exclaimed “Make me good, God, but not yet”, Theresa May is surely committed to the view: “Give me social mobility, but not too much”.

Why Universities Make Inequality Worse (and What we can do About it)

I Don't Wear a Poppy Because It's Problematic

The explicitly nationalistic, and hence militaristic, dimension of the poppy has always been there, but recently it has come to the forefront.

Postgraduate National tests are the Only Solution to University Degree Hyper-Inflation

A relatively new addition to the British summer calendar, joining Royal Ascot and Wimbledon, is the public revelation of another year of hyper-inflation in university degree marking.