We can increasingly see signs that the Coalition is following the same...
Andrew Crines uses the degenerative tendencies model as a basis to offer predictions for the general election. This approach holds that if a number of key issues are empirically identifiable within a...
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Adam Lent takes issue with claims about Margaret Thatcher’s legacy of popular capitalism, arguing that she brought about much more of the latter than the former. Flip Chart Fairly Tales reflects on the...
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Britta Busse, Alexandra Hashem-Wangler and Jochen Tholen describe their ethnographic research into the social and political engagement of a football fan group in Germany, explaining how the manner in...
View ArticleFive minutes with William Outhwaite: “The chic ultra-right populism of Geert...
As part of our on-going Thinkers on Europe series, EUROPP’s editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson spoke to Professor of Sociology William Outhwaite about the EU’s democratic deficit, the rise of the...
View ArticleBook Review: The Problem With Banks
In The Problem With Banks, Timothy J. Sinclair and Lena Rethel argue that banks suffer from perennial problems, and that developments in the financial markets and government in recent decades have...
View ArticleBook Review: The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and...
The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed...
View ArticleInvoluntary idleness represents a massive waste of economic resources
As part of the ongoing Social State project, Howard Reed reflects on the macroeconomic significance of involuntary idleness. He argues that it is a waste of economic resources but one rooted in complex...
View ArticleDebates about the cultural aspects of class risk distracting us from the...
Danny Dorling reflects on the Great British Class Survey and the public debate it has generated. He outlines some of the challenges that have been raised about the underlying research before discussing...
View ArticleHow will the coalition end? Cameron and Clegg may look to the precedent set...
Alun Wyburn-Powell provides a historical account of the 1945 caretaker government and argues that it provides a useful model for thinking about when the current coalition might end. Whilst obviously...
View ArticleIntroducing our latest eCollection: The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Last month British Politics and Policy at LSE ran a series of articles reflecting on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. This eCollection is a select sample of some of the most interesting posts from that...
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