Andy Summers writes that reforming health and social care funding by focusing tax rises on younger and lower earners is a political choice. He explains ...more
The SNP and Scottish Greens recently announced a power-sharing deal to create a governing majority in Holyrood, which could then add pressure on the UK ...more
Melanie Henwood discusses the Prime Minister's plan to reform funding for adult social care through an increase in National Insurance. She writes that the government needs ...more
Elizabeth Poole and Milly Williamson examine UK newspaper coverage of Muslims during the first wave of the pandemic. They find such coverage ultimately reinforced the ...more
With four new unitary councils looming, Steve Leach and Colin Copus write that the process of replacing existing councils with a single unitary authority is founded on two assumptions: that ‘bigger is ...more
Political leaders can adopt two broad approaches in managing a protracted crisis like COVID-19. Some, like Boris Johnson, opt for a principled approach; others, like ...more
Are voters motivated by policy preferences or partisan identities? Bryan Schonfeld and Sam Winter-Levy argue that the British Conservative Party’s sudden change in Brexit policy (following ...more
Bob Hudson discusses the types of political inaction currently at play in the UK, in order to explain why some policy domains are characterised by ...more
The Labour Party changed its incumbent-renomination process six times between 1979 and 2019. Using it as a case study, Alona O. Dolinsky proposes a two-part theory explaining ...more
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