Collections
Dig deeper with our curated collections of journal articles, blogs, and treasures from our archive
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Read More about Governing from the Centre Left in the 2020s
The first half of the 2020s has been a turbulent period in global politics, with the Covid pandemic, surging inflation, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the fall and return of Donald Trump. This collection examines how centre-left governments in North America, Australasia, and Western Europe have dealt with these pressures, and considers what lessons the UK Labour government should learn from its overseas counterparts.
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Read More about The 2024 UK General Election
The 2024 general election was a landslide in the true sense of the word, as the collapse in Conservative and SNP support allowed Sir Keir Starmer to take power with a large parliamentary majority. This collection of articles by political scientists and historians examines the sources of Labour’s victory and considers how the result will shape the future of British politics.
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Read More about Responding to Michael Jacobs' Lecture 'After Neoliberalism'
For more than a decade, western societies have struggled to respond to declining prosperity, accelerating climate change and rising inequalities. A 'paradigm shift' in economic theory and public policy seems overdue. But if neoliberalism is dead, what should replace it? Michael Jacobs gave the Political Quarterly annual lecture 'After Neoliberalism: Economic Theory and Policy in the Polycrisis' in November 2023. In this collection, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Abby Innes and Gavin Kelly respond to his assessment of the 'polycrisis' and how governments should approach policy making in this new age.
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Read More about Responding to Rachel Reeves' Mais Lecture
Giving a statement of economic policy is always fraught with danger for any opposition politician and even more so for a Labour politician in the run up to a general election. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves gave the Mais lecture in March 2024 before Labour came to power. Her speech gave us strong clues as to what kind of Chancellor she would prove to be. In this collection, Dan Corry, Aveek Bhattacharya, Matthew Watson, Aled Davies and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni give their analyses.
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Read More about Policing the Permacrisis
A catalogue of crimes committed by serving officers, missed opportunities for reform and a scathing review of the internal culture of the police culminating in the recommendation for a ‘complete overhaul’, might initially leave some with the view that there is little hope. But against the backdrop of what seems like a perpetual cycle of crisis for policing, in this collection academic experts, senior police—both current and former—and commentators offer a diverse set of ideas for changing policing for the better. Edited by Ben Bradford, Jon Jackson and Emmeline Taylor.
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Read More about Immigration and Asylum Policy After Brexit
The EU referendum was won on the promise of ‘taking back control’, yet, since Brexit, immigration has increased to record levels and the nationalities of people coming to the UK have become more diverse. Although some aspects of immigration policy have evolved in a liberal direction, others have become increasingly restrictive. The Conservative government has pursued a draconian agenda on asylum, borders and irregular migration. This collection explores how recent immigration and asylum policies reflect the ambivalent, unstable and unresolved meanings of Brexit itself.
