Political Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Could we bring back Clem Attlee?30
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About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)25
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’23
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement22
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Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?15
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act15
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food14
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine14
Unbroken, but Dangerous: The UK's Political Finance Regime and the Rationale for Reform13
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?13
Nostalgia as mental pollution12
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy12
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?11
Why are we equals? Just because?11
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism11
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan10
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology10
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction9
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro9
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics9
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture8
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?7
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’7
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State7
The ‘pleonectic’ rift7
Fixing the ‘Polycrisis’ in Local Government Finance: the Limits of More Incremental Reform7
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism7
From Donald Dewar to Humza Yousaf: The Role of Scotland's First Ministers and the Importance of Political Leadership7
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson7
The Politics of the British Environment since 19457
Brexit and the Death of Devolution7
Putin not as strong as we think he is6
Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit6
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation6
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs5
Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election5
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling5
US Republicans and the New Fusionism5
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party5
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture5
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The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?5
American wars and Greek tragedies4
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told4
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Business and Politics in the United States4
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up4
Who started the second Cold War?4
A confusing study of revolutions4
Ideas in Politics in International Context3
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only3
Orwell: the good and the bad3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy3
When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide3
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding3
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?3
Living (and dying) in America3
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary3
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission3
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board3
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party3
Israel's Catastrophic Failures3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail3
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police3
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics3
Capitalism's feeding frenzy3
Equality can divide2
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness2
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?2
Brexit and Strand Three of the 1998 Agreement: The Three Faces of East‐West2
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords2
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top2
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals2
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics2
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 19742
Issue Information ‐ TOC2
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid2
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century12
How Trump Gets on Our Nerves2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons2
French Social Democracy in Turmoil2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work2
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?2
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic2
The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 20242
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian2
Localism, Levelling Up and Taking Back Control: Tensions in the Ambiguous Justification of English Devolution2
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies2
Fan‐Led Review of Football Governance: A Kick in the Right Direction or a Maoist Collective Power Grab?2
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?2
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons2
A storm of complexity1
Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic1
Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?1
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten1
Is inequality really not that bad?1
No Wokery, Please, We Are Leftist1
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?1
Women and the Labour Party: Gender and the Writing of British Political History1
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System1
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia1
From Estimating to Explaining and Eliminating Ethnic Disproportionality in Stop and Search1
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting1
Unlocking the Pensions Debate: The Origins and Future of the ‘Triple Lock’1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war1
Where did it all go wrong?1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police1
Did Covid‐19 transform the European Union into a ‘community of destiny’?1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?1
Bringing the Emigration State Back In1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?1
The Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?1
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats1
The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection1
So, what is terrorism?1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?1
Cricket, Englishness and Racial Thinking1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism1
Unite against Trumpism!1
Covid and our civil liberties1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction1
The NHS: still worth fighting for, but pick the right battles1
Issue Information ‐ TOC1
Understanding Inequality in the UK : What Can We Learn from the Deaton Review?1
Starmer's sorry sad saga1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)1
Nothing works, but plenty to do1
Towards a New Ireland1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?1
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English1
Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice1
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?1
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday1
Restructuring UK government at the Centre—Why the IfG Commission's Naïve Plan will not Work1
Social movements re‐imagine the world1
Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald: Comparing the Rise of Reform with the Rise of Labour1
On Surprises, Strategy, the Economy and What Comes Next for Scottish Independence1
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Liberty After Neoliberalism1
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A Critical Appraisal of Labour's AI Agenda0
To speak or not to speak?0
Talent Policy: Problems and Solutions0
Indian Islamophobia as Racism0
What Would the British Party System Look Like under Proportional Representation?0
Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics0
Still believing in the glorious promise of the internet?0
Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination: Introduction0
The memoirs of a whip in love with his leaders0
Can Europe survive its flaws, crises, and problems?0
Let's be more ‘dialectical’ about China0
Raising the Pension Age0
The Scottish National Party’s Economic Prospectus for Independence: Out with the Old?0
Dobbs v. Jackson and the Revival of the States' Rights Constitution0
The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands0
Vision and vigilance in the United Kingdom and the European Union0
Diversifying British Political History0
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Labour, the Unions and Proportional Representation0
Can Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer Save the UK?0
Class Composition, Labour's Strategy and the Politics of Work0
‘Caring’ views from anywhere0
Smartphones and mental illness0
How to save the world according to a Brexiteer0
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: Lessons from Comparative Experience0
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Power with Purpose? Further Reflections on Strengthening the Centre of Government0
Keeping the oligarchs at bay0
Recollecting people messing up with Europe and those who didn't0
Beyond Liberal Individualism: What Role, if any, for Socialism? David Marquand's Search for an Adequately Radical Political Philosophy0
How to be a ‘spin’ dictator0
The Crisis at the CBI0
Epidemics and institutions: do they cope?0
The Making of Empirical Political Science in the UK: Jean Blondel, David Butler and Peter Pulzer0
Rental Reform: Recalibrating the Landlord–Tenant Relationship in England0
Caste Out: Christian Dalits in Pakistan0
Walking the Tightrope: Private and Public Interests in Conservative Immigration Policy0
The Co‐op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government0
Kabul and Washington: how it all went wrong0
Universality: A Battleground for UK Public Service Media in the Platform Age0
How to get rich: be an asset manager0
On Neoliberalism and Institutions: A Response to Michael Jacobs0
Women and Civility in British Politics: Reflections on a Changing Environment0
Tocqueville's nationalist dilemma0
Strategies for Climate Change Post COP260
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The Future of Northern Ireland: the Role of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Institutions0
Liberalism: the curmudgeonly approach0
Introduction: Governing from the Centre‐Left in the 2020s0
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The language of imperial violence0
The intelligentsia of money‐grubbing0
The Persistence of the Hostile Environment after the Windrush Scandal0
The Fundamentals of Public Ownership: Learning from UK Historical Experience and Recent Scottish Policy0
Careful What you Wish for? Risk and Reward with Scottish Tax Devolution0
Beveridge's Wager0
Before the Russian invasion0
Some wars are rational0
What we Talk About When we Talk About the Labour Party0
Uniting the human race0
What are Jews for?0
Our Man in Madrid: Bullfighting Enters the Political Arena0
The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion0
Racism towards the Chinese Minority in Malaysia: Political Islam and Institutional Barriers0
Re‐building capitalism0
Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?0
A Hapless Government Produces an Unlikely Hero0
A Second Scottish Independence Referendum: Should the Diaspora get a Vote?0
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Rise like lions… Ye are many—they are few0
Introduction: Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?0
Towards the Vernacular, Away from Politics? Political History after the ‘New Political History’0
Interrogating the Political Economy of Age0
Modernising the House: Why the 2024 Parliament Highlights the Need to Formalise Party‐Group Rights in the House of Commons0
On Institutions and Economic Policy: A Response to Michael Jacobs0
Can ethical liberals do any better against unethical opponents?0
The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History0
Building a More United Kingdom: a Conservative Case for Constitutional Reform10
The Road to Victory Runs Through Scotland? Prospects for Labour in the Post‐Sturgeon Era0
Mainstreaming Authoritarianism0
After Biden: Lessons for Labour and the Global Centre‐Left from the United States0
‘Thirteen Wasted Years’: A Strategy for Starmer?0
What (some) Russians think0
The trouble the USA (and most of us) are in0
The Good, the Not so Good, and Liz Truss: MPs’ Evaluations of Postwar Prime Ministers0
The Bank of England Loses its Mojo0
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda0
‘Global Britain’: a little wobbly?0
Scrutiny of Police Institutions and the Spectre of Culture0
Partnering with Agents: How the Covid‐19 Pandemic changed Relations between the UK Government and Public Service Contractors0
The ‘good old’ seventies?0
History as ‘An Excellent Cow Yielding the Butter One Wants’0
It helps to be white, male, rich, etc.0
Lessons from the Portuguese Socialists: How Dialogue with the Left can deliver Political and Economic Stability0
Orwell revisited once again0
A Social Guarantee to Meet Everyone's Needs within Environmental Limits0
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