Digested Read
Pressed for time? Read these short summaries of our journal articles
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From Our Archive: Post Brexit and Post-Covid. Reflections on the Contemporary Conservative Party
A reflection from 2021 on how the Conservatives must refine a political narrative for a diverse set of supporters.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
- Covid-19
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Turkey Under Erdoğan: An Increasingly Impotent State
How the tragedy of the 6 February earthquakes exposed Turkey’s institutional weaknesses.
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Populism
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Different Process, Same Outcome? The Representative Problems of Within-Party Sortition
Against the case for a ‘sortition of candidature’ to create a socially representative Parliament.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Parliament
- Equality
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From Transparency to Deliberation: How to Reform Lobbying
Making lobbying more deliberative can save democracy and improve the quality of policymaking. Here are three solutions to make it happen.
- Parliament
- Progressive Politics
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From Our Archive: A Rising Tide? The Salience of Immigration and the Rise of Anti-Immigration Political Parties in Western Europe
Why a commonly-assumed reason for the increase in voting for anti-immigration parties in western Europe between 2008-2018 is likely to be false.
- Immigration
- Populism
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The Prevent Counter-Terrorism Strategy After Southport
Who can and should be engaged by the Prevent Strategy?
- Labour Party
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The War on Net Zero has Made Solar Farms the new Frontline
Solar farms are becoming a new cleavage in what was previously a consensus policy area.
- Labour Party
- Environment & Climate Change
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Why Have the Leveson Inquiry’s Recommendations not Been Implemented in Full?
A case of ‘fading into forgetfulness’?
- Media
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Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Why Labour’s Devolution Plans Risk Entrenching Inequality
Standardisation over strategy?
- Devolution
- Labour Party
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The Northern Irish Assembly has Formally Granted ‘Democratic consent’ to the Windsor Framework. What Does This Mean?
The lack of a cross-community majority means the next ‘democratic consent’ vote will be in 2028.
- Parliament
- Brexit
- Ireland
