As the guard changes in Westminster and a new government seeks to differentiate itself from its predecessor, it is timely to review the state of the devolution ...
Donald Trump’s selection by the Republican Party as its presidential candidate is one of the most controversial nominations in American electoral history. In li...
The Political Quarterly commentary published shortly before the 1975 referendum on Britain’s membership of the EEC was written by Bernard Crick. His summary of ...
There will be a general election in Spain on 26 June, after six months of political uncertainty. Mariano Rajoy and his right-of-centre Partido Popular/Popular P...
Anti-politics has increasingly preoccupied political scientists, with many seeking to explain falling electoral participation and the growing gap between citize...
In England, America, Europe and democracies elsewhere, a bifurcation of politics is transforming the essence of contemporary politics. This fracturing of politi...
In recent years, migration has been at the core of debates in Europe. While most governments have been concerned about the management of an unprecedented influ...
For some time I have been working with colleagues in CRESC (the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change) tracking the consequences of the great privatisati...
Coalition government at Westminster did not end in 2015: that much is now becoming apparent. In place of two leaders of identifiable parties shaking hands in th...
Few if any in the UK Labour Party anticipated the consequences of the decision back in July 2014 to change how the party selects its leader. The decision to mov...
Since Francis Fukuyama prophesised in 1989 the ‘end of history’ and a global convergence towards liberal market democracy as the final form of human government,...
Public broadcasting matters. In spite of the revolution brought about by the new digital means of communications, watching TV news is still the main way in whi...
