Political Ideas
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Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
Why Boswell's focus on citizens’ everyday engagement with the democratic state has important implications for democratic theory.
- Progressive Politics
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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
What is power? Who exercises it? How do those without it get what they want?
- Progressive Politics
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Review: Post-Liberalism, by Matt Sleat
A new home for the political right.
- Populism
- Progressive Politics
- USA
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The End of Policies of Social Inclusion?
For so long we have lived in societies where increasing inclusiveness was a taken for granted good.
- Equality
- Populism
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“The Heart of the Labour Party has to be won for an Inclusionist Agenda”: Interview with Colin Crouch
Anya Pearson interviews Professor Colin Crouch about his new book, Exclusion and the New Politics of Hatred.
- Populism
- Progressive Politics
- Labour Party
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Whose Flag? Belonging and Disinformation in Britain’s Immigration Debate
Sam Taylor Hill discusses anti-migrant sentiment and the social dislocation recent flag-raising represents
- Immigration
- Populism
- Racism & Antisemitism
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- Political Parties
- Progressive Politics
- Labour Party
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The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation
Matthew Goodwin's Values, Voice and Virtue received considerable attention from across the political spectrum. But the concept of ‘values’ on which Goodwin bases his argument is never precisely explicated.
- Brexit
- Populism
- Identity Politics
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Review: EUtopia. How Europe is Failing and Britain Could Do Better, by Ross Clark
Vision and vigilance in the United Kingdom and the European Union .
- Brexit
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Marquand and MacDonald
Marquand's book avoids the legitimate criticisms of MacDonald, but is still a brilliant explanation of a remarkable man.
- Labour Party
