When constitutional reforms delegated new responsibilities to Germany's states in 2006, many predicted they would lead to damaging competition between them in many aspects of policy. However, in...
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The start of the long election campaign has a wearily familiar feel to it, as the two main parties slug it out over tax and spending plans. This is the stuff of elections, of course, and can be...
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The financial crisis and its aftermath have delivered major shocks to the party systems of continental Europe: witness the rise of new left parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece, and...
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Metis is the journal of [email protected], the student thinktank network. The theme this year – the politics of a new generation – encourages discussion of why so many young people are...
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Young people
The arithmetic underpinning this scenario was expertly set out by Peter Kellner in a recent piece . In essence, his argument is that if the Liberal Democrats lose something close to half their...
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In this report, we assess the long- and short-term trends in public opinion concerning Europe, and consider the deeper issues – such as the economy, cultural change and trust in politics...
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The rehabilitation of Gordon Brown's reputation advanced a step further today as he gave a vintage, at times volcanic speech to a No rally in Glasgow. On Friday, the same performative test that...
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Scotland
I have been researching the issue of political leadership in recent months. Here is a piece I wrote with Professor Michael Kenny of London's Queen Mary University on the subject for the summer...
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As Scotland prepares to vote on its membership of the United Kingdom, Scotland's Choices by my colleague Guy Lodge and co-authors Iain McLean and Jim Gallagher is an indispensable read. It's...
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England & Englishness
Scotland
The two events are not unrelated, of course. Although fundamental rights are written into UK law through the Human Rights Act, the executive power is not constrained by a fundamental basic law of the...
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