Digested Read
Pressed for time? Read these short summaries of our journal articles
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The Forgotten Geordie Revolt of 1977 – and its Lessons for the UK Today
The story deserves retelling, because it has important lessons for today.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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The Rise and Fall of Martin Schulz
Since the Schröder years, half of former SPD voters – around 10 million people altogether – have drifted away.
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
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Why Grammar Schools? Why Social Mobility?
While St Augustine supposedly exclaimed “Make me good, God, but not yet”, Theresa May is surely committed to the view: “Give me social mobility, but not too much”.
- Health, Education & Welfare
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The Populist Surge and Democracy in Today’s Europe
Mainstream parties ought to take seriously the demands of populists on the issues which they raise, and respond to them with concrete policy proposals and discourses of positivity.
- Political Parties
- Populism
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The SNP's Progressive Dilemma
The reluctance of UK voters to support parties – usually Labour or the Liberals – whose broadly progressive values and policies they otherwise claim to support.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Brexit
- Scotland
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Beyond ‘Secret Deals’: Rethinking Devolution in England
The case for devolution is strong in principle. But this might be an appropriate moment to the reconsider the narrow model that has been on offer.
- Devolution
- Parliament
- Trade
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Why Donald Trump was Nominated by the Republicans
One of the most controversial nominations in American electoral history.
- Elections & Campaigning
- USA
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Culture as Politics: Electoral Chaos and the Crisis of the Traditional Spanish Left
Will posterity remember figures such as Guerra and González as the architects or the saboteurs of a bona fide democracy?
- Elections & Campaigning
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Beyond Anti-Politics
Disenchantment with conventional politics is anything but non-political.
- Political Parties
- Populism
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The Bifurcation of Politics: Two Englands and a Divided World
In England, America, Europe and democracies elsewhere, a bifurcation of politics is transforming the essence of contemporary politics.
- Brexit
