Collections
Dig deeper with our curated collections of journal articles, blogs, and treasures from our archive
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Read More about Public Inquiries in the Spotlight
The planned public inquiry into grooming gangs has run into trouble, with some survivors resigning from the consultation panel. This is challenging because the inquiry is specifically meant to give a voice to survivors who were ignored when they were groomed. Gone are the days when a judge conducted an orderly process, deciding who to listen to and whether their views fell within the permitted scope of the exercise. Now, inquiry chairs are expected to have remarkable capacities to orchestrate a cathartic process of listening, memorialising and healing. In this collection, comprised of both recent and archive articles, Matt Flinders, Geoffrey Howe, Kieran Walshe, Nick Timmins and Natacha Harding give their insights into the politics of public inquiries.
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Read More about The Politics and Policy of Housing
Housing is among the most intractable problems of contemporary politics. It is a cauldron for class, regional, and generational inequality, a subject of conflict and negotiation between the public and private, local and national, and the focus of a contentious reform agenda of the new UK government. This dedicated collection features contributors from geography, economics and politics, and from universities, think tanks, and independent academics. They debate the roots of the housing crisis, dissect the government's focus on planning and new builds, and illuminate the resultant policy dilemmas in the UK and elsewhere.
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Read More about David Marquand’s Intellectual and Political Legacy
David Marquand, who died in April 2024, was a prominent figure in late 20th century British politics. This collection is devoted to analysing, criticising and celebrating his political and academic contributions. Different articles concentrate on his historiography, the tension between liberalism and socialism, political economy, communitarianism, the dilemmas of choosing between loyalty to organizations and to values, as well as reminiscences of Marquand’s own contributions to practical politics.
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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.
