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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
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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
