Digested Read
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Are Voters Really Ignorant?
Falsehoods can, and often do, impair people’s understanding of politics. But they can also facilitate political understanding. This simple insight has profound implications.
- Constitution
- Parliament
- Voting systems
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UK Energy and Net Zero Transitions
Why have government-business relations and government capacity to act meant that the UK is not on track to achieve Net Zero by 2050?
- Conservative Party
- Trade
- Environment & Climate Change
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Opposition to Covid Vaccines Transcends Left/Right Divisions
Anti-vax views now extend across the political spectrum – a trend with worrying public health and political implications.
- Covid-19
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Media
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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Relations Between the Government and Public Service Contractors
The government's response to Covid-19 risks a permanent change in government-provider relations, to the detriment of the UK's contracting out framework.
- Trade
- Covid-19
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Policy Makers Must Pay Attention to Employers’ Perspectives
Employers’ views on new expectations under Universal Credit have been puzzlingly absent from both research and policy debates.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
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The divisions and concessions behind Conservative immigration policy
The Conservatives have long been split on immigration policy. The business lobby places significant pressure for concessions. Lately, they have been making their criticisms public.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
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Do the Conservatives believe in social mobility?
The Conservatives have reconceptualised what social mobility means to them. It's an audacious idea and, politically, it may be a smart one.
- Conservative Party
- Equality
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The Missing Political Science of Pensions Provision
It is time for political science to take pensions policy more seriously, even if the public probably never will. If not, millions of people will be significantly worse off in later life.
- Political Parties
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
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‘Would I lie to you?’: Boris Johnson in the House of Commons
Does Johnson’s general propensity to lie, and his specific inclination to lie to Parliament, matter? The answer is: yes.
- Conservative Party
- Constitution
- Parliament
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The Idea that Female Politicians are More ‘Civilised’ is not Grounded in Reality
Widespread beliefs about women's more cooperative and civil political discourse are not substantiated by research.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
