Digested Read
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Losing Perspective: Brexit and the EU’s Freedom of Movement
Ultimately it is the attractiveness of Britain’s labour market, rather than its current migration policy, that makes people move to Britain.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Breaking the Constitutional Silence
Reforming the outsourcing sector is only a first step to a more general reconsideration of the place of the corporation in our constitution.
- Constitution
- Trade
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Labour's Experiment in Expanding Party Affiliation
As Labour struggles with the dramatic changes a switch in procedural rules has occasioned, it is important to look beyond the factional debates at the broader shift.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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On the Retreat and Self-Erosion of Democracy
Since Francis Fukuyama prophesised in 1989 the ‘end of history’ and a global convergence towards liberal market democracy as the final form of human government, democratic rule has been in retreat.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Populism
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Public Service Broadcasting: What Research Tells us
Watching TV news is still the main way in which most people keep up with current affairs.
- Media
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The New ‘Ten Year Rule’ and the Defence ‘Commentariat’
Only time will tell whether the government and/or the ‘commentariat’ will be found out.
- Conservative Party
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
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The Commons Select Committee System in the 2015–2020 Parliament
Why the House of Commons select committees witnessed some of the most constructive political theatre of the 2010-2015 Parliament
- Elections & Campaigning
- Parliament
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The March Towards Post-Democracy, Ten Years On
The price we have to pay for the loss of trust produced by the supremacy of the profit motive in an economy of highly imperfect competition.
- Trade
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The Future of Parties and Post-Democracy
Are parties in decline, and if so why? And are there indications that parties could address their shortcomings to become more democratic organisations?
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Hurry or you Will Lose: David Cameron and the Brexit Referendum
No wonder David Cameron is in a hurry to hold the EU referendum. If he waits until next year he will lose the vote.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
