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Why Constitutionalism Erodes: Lessons from Slovakia
Using the Slovak case, this article shows the key role of political party leaders’ constitutional entrepreneurship in the erosion of constitutionalism.
- Constitution
- Populism
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How Serious is the Green and Left-Wing Threat to Labour?
Labour faces credible electoral threats from minor parties to its left.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
- Environment & Climate Change
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The Future of Home Ownership
Exploring low-cost home ownership initiatives from the late 1970s onwards.
- Equality
- Labour Party
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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