Parties & Elections
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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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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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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 Divided Tories
Coalition government at Westminster did not end in 2015: that much is now becoming apparent.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
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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 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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Hard Labour
There is something about the Labour Party that makes otherwise rigorous left-wing thinkers misplace their critical faculties.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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After the Election: Where Now?
We are now all being wise after the event. It seems so obvious that this was an election that the Conservatives were likely to win.
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
