Introduction
The abolition of the monarchy in several European countries during the twentieth century has led to a teleological assumption that, in time, mo...
The Political Quarterly 2020 Annual Lecture by Amelia Gentleman
If you missed our 2020 virtual Annual Lecture, you can watch it here:
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How the British government has communicated with the public and what it has communicated have played a major part in determining how citizens have behaved duri...
The laws, regulations and practices around managing elections have accumulated over time to deal with ad-hoc problems and are therefore unfit for purpose in an...
The context of the review
The Labour Together review of the 2019 election was published on 19 June 2020, almost exactly six months after the party suffered ...
It has long been assumed that UK devolution was structured around a clear separation of powers that are reserved to the UK parliament and those that are de...
The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
In this article, we argue that the perennial and widely-recognised problems with stop and search – its systematic targeting of Black people and other oppressed...
Is meritocracy an effective device for legitimising socioeconomic inequality?
My father Michael Young’s objection to meritocracy was rooted in his belief in...
When Donald Trump was elected President of the USA in 2016, a book from 1935 became an unlikely bestseller in the States. Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here...
As an expert on game theory and the like, Dominic Cummings will be well aware of the concept of moral hazard. This holds that, if individuals are protected aga...
The illusion of meritocracy at school inflicts damage on children and young people – particularly those from working class backgrounds. More than that, meritoc...
