Progressive Politics
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Has the Moment for Electoral Reform at Westminster Finally Arrived?
Why electoral reform is back on the agenda.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Progressive Politics
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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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The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer
Gaza did not topple Keir Starmer directly, but it crystallised a perception of a leader without conviction.
- Progressive Politics
- Human Rights
- Labour Party
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Review: Hyperpolitics. Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences, by Anton Jäger
A newly revised, English-language version of Jäger's social history of the present moment makes for cogent reading.
- Progressive Politics
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How Democratic Professionals Can Contribute to Democracy: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
How democratic professionalism has worked in the austere state, the neoliberal state and the carceral state.
- Progressive Politics
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Everyday Political Agency Online: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
Do digital tools help civic tech users build working relationships with local representatives and bureaucrats?
- Progressive Politics
- Media
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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State
Are citizens really meek victims of failing public services, or do they have agency to pursue reform?
- Progressive Politics
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History Suggests Treasury Control is Sometimes for the Best
Why the failures of Concorde and British-designed nuclear reactors serve as a reminder of what can happen when the ‘Treasury view’ is sidelined.
- Progressive Politics
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“If you Delivered Public Services in a way That Truly Works for the Public, Private Equity Funds Wouldn't be Interested”: Interview with Hettie O’Brien
Anya Pearson interviews Hettie O’Brien about her new book 'The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself'
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
