Founded in 1930, the Political Quarterly journal publishes analysis, insight and informed opinion on politics and public policy

Volume 96, Issue 2

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Volume 96, Issue 2

This issue features a collection titled 'Governing from the Centre Left' edited by Deborah Mabbett and Peter Sloman. In this collection, authors including Claire Ainsley, Jörg Michael Dostal and Eunice Goes examine how centre-left governments in North America, Australasia, and Western Europe have dealt with recent global pressures, and consider what lessons the UK Labour government should learn from its overseas counterparts. Other articles include a commentary by Ben Jackson titled 'Poverty and the Labour Party'; John Connolly, Matthew Flinders and David Judge on 'How Not to Deliver Policies: Lessons in Undeliverability from the Conservative Governments of 2019–2024'; Stewart Lansley on 'Wealth Accumulation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'; and Coree Brown Swan, Paul Anderson, and Judith Sijstermans on 'Politics and the Pandemic: The UK Covid-19 Inquiry and Devolution'. A selection of book reviews feature Victoria Brittain's review of 'Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan, Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement' by Afaf Jabiri, and Anna Coote's review of 'The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality', by David Goodhart.

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The Political Quarterly is primarily a journal, although we also publish a blog, organise a selection of events each year, and sponsor the prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing. Our journal is broadly centre-left in outlook, but we publish a wide range of authors and viewpoints. The journal aims to provide access to current academic debates and draw on critical intellectual arguments in plain English. To browse every issue, visit our publisher Wiley's website.

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  • Deborah Mabbett

    Deborah Mabbett

    Deborah Mabbett is Co-Editor of the Political Quarterly journal. She is also Professor of Public Policy at Birkbeck, University of London.

    Articles by Deborah Mabbett
  • Ben Jackson

    Ben Jackson

    Ben Jackson is Co-Editor of the Political Quarterly journal. He is also Professor of Modern History at Oxford University.

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    Colm Murphy

    Colm Murphy Collections Co-Editor at the Political Quarterly. He is Lecturer in British Politics at Queen Mary University of London.

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    Peter Sloman

    Peter Sloman is Collections Co-Editor at the Political Quarterly. He is Professor of British Politics at POLIS and a Fellow of Churchill College. 

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‘I conceived of the idea in 1927 of a serious political review in which political ideas could be discussed at adequate length, and shortly afterwards found that Kingsley Martin had arrived at a similar idea’. So wrote William Robson in 1971, reflecting on the beginnings of The Political Quarterly.

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