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Why the Voter Authority Certificate Isn't Enough to Plug the Voter ID Gap
The decline in voting under mandatory voter ID in the UK reveals the limitations of the Voter Authority Certificate.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
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Can Winter Tourism Destinations Responsibly Adapt to Climate Change?
Why relying on tourism-led growth alone may produce unintended consequences as climate change accelerates.
- Environment & Climate Change
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What if Unenfranchised Adults Could Vote? The Case for Residence-Based Voting in the UK
If all UK residents could vote, 257 seats could have had a different outcome at the 2024 general election.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Immigration
- Voting systems
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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
