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How Voting Behaviour Links to National Identity – And What it Means for the Next Election
What makes national identity politically important?
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Diary of an SNP First Minister: A Chronopolitics of Proximity and Priorities
An audience with a national leader can be indicative of priorities and potential for influence—as can its absence.
- Scotland
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Back to the Stone Age: Europe’s Mainstream Right and Climate Change
Exploring the common approaches to climate policy among Europe’s centre-right parties.
- Environment & Climate Change
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Moody Times: From ‘I Think’ to ‘I Feel’ in Public Opinion
To what extent does the ‘mood’ of a nation resemble and differ from the notion of ‘public opinion’?
- Elections & Campaigning
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London’s ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?
ULEZ was a phoney war: a small scheme with a marginal financial impact became the ground for a bigger battle.
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Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding
What were the underlying dynamics that sealed the fate of Turkey’s 2023 elections?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
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The Power of Unintended Consequences: Strategic Naïvety, China and the End of the US Empire
Despite the best of intentions, US policy towards China has left its global empire in seemingly terminal decline.
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From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies
What happens when the socioeconomic needs of the elderly, namely good pensions, and low inflation, are prioritised?
- Political Parties
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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The Antinomies of Insurgency: The Case of the Scottish National Party
The SNP is experiencing its greatest crisis in five decades. Why?
- Scotland
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Review: Spectres of Pessimism. A Cultural Logic of the Worst, by Mark Schmitt
A substantial literature has emerged which is committed to articulating perspectives of philosophical pessimism.
- Progressive Politics
