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Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?
Analysing the government's critique of past reforms, the lessons it has set out and why its reform programme is likely to repeat past failings.
- Conservative Party
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Social Democracy's Muted Revival
What is the place of social democracy in the political and economic order that is emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, and the economic crisis that has followed in its wake?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
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Introduction: The Future of British Political History
What (if anything) is distinctive about political history as practised today, and what should its contribution to historiography, social science and public life be?
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Parliament
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How Do We Write the History of Brexit?
The study of Brexit raises serious challenges for academic writing, concerning method, the political preferences of the historian and the implication of history as a discipline in the European debate.
- Constitution
- Parliament
- Brexit
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South Korea: The Lasting Pitfalls of the ‘Imperial Presidency’
Despite lengthy debate of shortcomings of South Korea’s presidentialism, comprehensive constitutional reform has failed to materialise.
- Constitution
- Voting systems
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One Man's Damage: The Consequences of Boris Johnson's Assault on the British Political System
Boris Johnson's recent behaviour has raised a number of serious questions about the continued successful functioning of the UK's unwritten constitution.
- Conservative Party
- Parliament
- Populism
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The Bell Tolls Midnight? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson
What exactly is Boris Johnson being investigated for?
- Conservative Party
- Parliament
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Review: For Public Service. State, Office and Ethics, by Paul Gay and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth
Grahame Thompson reviews 'For Public Service: State, Office and Ethics' by Paul Gay and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth.
- Political Parties
- Constitution
- Parliament
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Careful What you Wish for? Risk and Reward with Scottish Tax Devolution
Debates on fiscal devolution typically focus upon the rewards, but as the case of Scottish tax devolution shows, the risks are real and require careful management.
- Devolution
- Scotland
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Review: Tangled in Terror. Uprooting Islamophobia, by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi reviews 'Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia' by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan.
- Equality
- Decolonisation
- Human Rights
