Elections & Campaigning
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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 Politics of the Labour Manifesto
At the outset of the 2017 election campaign there seemed to be a good chance that the Labour Party would be broken – possibly irreparably – on the anvil of nationalism.
- 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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Do People Really Lack Knowledge About the Economy? A Reply to Facchini
Existing empirical research showing that people lack economic knowledge is flawed. Many economists adopt a questionable approach to the interpretation of public knowledge and the evaluation of what knowledge is important.
- Elections & Campaigning
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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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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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English Votes for English Laws
The Conservatives have in effect become an English sovereigntist party.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Brexit
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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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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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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
