Parties & Elections
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
How the gender gap in the UK might be changing as the party system fragments.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Feminism & Gender
- Labour Party
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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election
Putting the relative Conservative-Labour bias at the 2024 election into a longer historical perspective.
- Conservative Party
- Voting systems
- Labour Party
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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election
Putting the relative Conservative-Labour bias at the 2024 election into a longer historical perspective.
- Conservative Party
- Voting systems
- Labour Party
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The 2024 UK General Election
The 2024 general election was a landslide in the true sense of the word, as the collapse in Conservative and SNP support allowed Sir Keir Starmer to take power with a large parliamentary majority. This collection of articles by political scientists and historians examines the sources of Labour’s victory and considers how the result will shape the future of British politics.
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The Economic Competence of the Labour Party in Historical Perspective
What are the historical roots of the relationship between the Labour Party and economic competence?
- Conservative Party
- Labour Party
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Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System
Reviewing the record of Germany’s current coalition government.
- Political Parties
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French Social Democracy in Turmoil
No one saw the Parti socialiste's downfall in France coming.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Progressive Politics
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Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
The political challenge for the Labour government will be to maintain public support until its gradualist growth policies begin to take effect.
- Labour Party
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Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System
Reviewing the record of Germany’s current coalition government.
- Elections & Campaigning
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From May to Sunak: The Failure of the Brexit Takeovers 2016-2024
Out of the UK's last six prime ministers, only two were voted into power. The Age of Brexit has also been the Age of Takeovers.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
