Digested Read
Pressed for time? Read these short summaries of our journal articles
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Scrutinising Delegated Legislation: What Can Westminster Learn From Other Parliaments?
Recent years have seen increasing expressions of concern about whether the UK Parliament has adequate procedures for scrutinising delegated legislation. What might be learned from how other parliaments approach that challenge?
- Parliament
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Rethinking ‘Crowding Out’ and the Return of ‘Private Affluence and Public Squalor’
What is the history of ‘crowding out’, and how has it been used as a justification for austerity and state deflation?
- Trade
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The Making of Empirical Political Science in the UK: Jean Blondel, David Butler and Peter Pulzer
Three academics with an exceptional impact on how the empirical study of politics developed in the UK.
- Progressive Politics
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Labour’s Politics of Anti-Neoliberalism from Corbyn to Starmer
The possibility of drastic change under a Starmer-led Labour government cannot be discounted.
- Political Parties
- Labour Party
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The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
How far was the House of Commons misled over Johnson's alleged lockdown parties in Number Ten?
- Conservative Party
- Covid-19
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Anti-Classism Offers a New Way to Show Why Monarchy is Wrong
A new way to show why monarchy—at its core—is wrong.
- Equality
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Why do Historians Ignore Digital Analysis?
Historians have failed to grasp the profound opportunities of computational analysis.
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
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Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Party
French bashing has been effective in galvanising populist instincts. But diplomatic realism requires a sense of friendship.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
- Populism
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The Politics of the British Environment since 1945
Does the environment have a political history? The snap answer is ‘yes’.
- Environment & Climate Change
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Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform
Restoring some of the trust that Parliament has lost in recent years.
- Parliament
- Progressive Politics
