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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales50
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Movements and Gatekeepers in a Hybrid Media Environment: A Comparison of the Twitter Networks of Corbynism and the People's Vote Movement19
The Co‐op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government18
Irish Unification After Brexit: Old and New Political Identities?15
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food15
Business and Politics: A Relationship under Challenge. Introduction15
Twenty Years on: The Impact and Legacy of the Private Finance Initiative in UK Schools14
The EU: 30,000 lobbyists facing 32,000 bureaucrats13
Negotiating le Brexit avec les English12
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What are Jews for?12
Parliamentary reform: dither and delay12
Issue Information ‐ TOC10
Starmer's sorry sad saga10
Recollecting people messing up with Europe and those who didn't10
Towards a united Ireland?9
How about preventing Islamophobia?9
Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond9
That Awkward Region: Writing and Advising on the History of Northern Ireland8
New Labour in Power: Five Problems of Contemporary History8
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?8
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?8
About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)8
Should Jews be alarmed?7
The Future of Football Fanzines: Have they Lost their Voice in this Digitalised and Deregulated Age?7
Looking at ‘imperial’ buildings7
The price of casual labour7
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?7
Brexit as Britain in Decline and its Crises (Revisited)7
Funding of Public Service Media in Germany6
The Conservative Nation since 19746
Orwell revisited once again6
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement6
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’6
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Some wars are rational6
Concealed silences in politics6
The socialist republic of South Yorkshire in the 1980s5
Collective Ministerial Responsibility in British Government: the Testing of a Convention, 2010–20195
Is ‘left populism’ still relevant?5
Justice as fairness and social transformation5
How to be a ‘spin’ dictator5
The BBC: demystify, but not defund5
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‘Full‐Fat, Semi‐Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit4
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Nothing works, but plenty to do4
Is inequality really not that bad?4
Besting Monarchy: The Anti‐Classism Argument4
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System4
Chronicles of Tory chaos4
Such a Thing as Society: The Conservative Party, Social Liberalism, and the One Nation Tradition since the Cameron Era4
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic3
Caste Out: Christian Dalits in Pakistan3
The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion3
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police3
The Politics of Unpolitics3
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?3
A Speech to Win an Election: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture3
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System3
History as ‘An Excellent Cow Yielding the Butter One Wants’3
Sex and the Office for National Statistics: A Case Study in Policy Capture3
Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?3
From Fact‐checking to Value‐checking: Normative Reasoning in the New Public Sphere3
Do Celebrities Make Policy?3
The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility3
Defunding the Police is Good for our Mental Health3
The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History3
Scrutiny of Police Institutions and the Spectre of Culture2
Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?2
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act2
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism2
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine2
Who Runs for Office? Understanding Candidate Diversity, Safety and Localism in the UK General Election 20242
Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics2
Populism, Hegemony and Agency: Left Economics after Corbynism2
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy2
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election2
Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting2
The Politics and Pitfalls of Policing High‐Volume Crime: Responding to the Shoplifting Epidemic2
Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England2
Biographies of Discontent: The Challenges Facing Labour2
Hella Pick: from Kindertransport child no. 4672 to world journalist2
Trust, Governance, and the Covid‐19 Pandemic: an Explainer using Longitudinal Data from the United Kingdom2
A New Mode of Protection: The Case for Redesigning our Policing and Public Safety Institutions2
The New Politics of Public Inquiries2
Indian Islamophobia as Racism2
Local Leaflets: Constituency Issue Messaging at the 2024 General Election2
China vsUSA: is China bound to win?2
Facing the Future of Crime: A Framework for Police Use of Technology2
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?2
Justice and states2
The Missing Politics of UK Pensions Provision2
Lessons from the Portuguese Socialists: How Dialogue with the Left can deliver Political and Economic Stability1
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology1
Politics, the Constitution and the Independence Movement in Scotland since Devolution1
Should we build ‘more bloody houses’?1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war1
How to behave in office (competently)1
Towards the Vernacular, Away from Politics? Political History after the ‘New Political History’1
Mute Force and Ignorance: Incivility and Gender in Scotland1
China's Media Warfare1
Softly softly, or not so softly?1
The Fundamentals of Public Ownership: Learning from UK Historical Experience and Recent Scottish Policy1
The Conservative Nation Redivivus?1
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?1
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro1
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?1
Why are we equals? Just because?1
What Social Media Facilitates, Social Media should Regulate: Duties in the New Public Sphere1
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan1
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism1
Tocqueville's nationalist dilemma1
Still believing in the glorious promise of the internet?1
Death and/or taxes1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction1
A storm of complexity1
Introduction: Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?1
Women, Civility and the Language of Politics: Realities and Representations1
The Historic, Present and Future Role of Regulation in Securing the Standards of ‘Public Value’ Media1
How different are we from cats?1
BBC Funding: Much Ado about the Cost of a Coffee a Week1
The Neoconservative Party, or Conservatism without Tradition?1
Labour and the Patriot Game1
Towards a (Minority) Shareholder State? The Labour Government's Fiscal Framework1
How Do We Write the History of Brexit?1
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From Trauma to Trust: The Case for Integrating Reconciliation Practices1
What Would the British Party System Look Like under Proportional Representation?1
The Self‐Magnification of British Leaders: Prime Ministers’ Perceptions and Projections of their Powers and Roles in the Postwar Era1
The limits of identity politics1
Democracy: not yet declining or falling1
Raising the Pension Age1
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson1
Preparing for Government1
Is identity the main divide in Britain now?1
The BBC World Service: is it Waving or Drowning?1
‘And I Hereby Declare the Runner‐Up to be the Winner’: The Extraordinary 2021 DUP Leadership Election1
The US Supreme Court: problems and troubles ahead1
Our old enemy: influenza1
Voting into a Void? The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly Election1
How Should a Progressive Parliament Advance Proportional Representation?1
The 2022 World Cup and Migrants' Rights in Qatar: Racialised Labour Hierarchies and the Influence of Racial Capitalism1
Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post‐Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’0
Politics and the Pandemic: The UK Covid‐19 Inquiry and Devolution0
The Gendered Harassment of Parliamentary Candidates in the UK0
Revisionism as Statecraft: David Marquand, the SDP Split and the Politics of Community0
How Not to Deliver Policies: Lessons in Undeliverability from the Conservative Governments of 2019–20240
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Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords0
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change0
Facing illiberal democracies0
The Collapse of the Green Wall0
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The Ambiguous Ideology of Levelling Up0
The state can be good for entrepreneurs0
Senedd Reform: From Aspiration to Cold‐Headed Reality?0
The Politics of Covid Vaccine Hesitancy and Opposition0
Local Government and the Everyday Economy0
Reflections on the 2024 General Election in Great Britain0
Dreams and nightmares from Africa0
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals0
After Biden: Lessons for Labour and the Global Centre‐Left from the United States0
Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution0
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: Lessons from Comparative Experience0
‘This Really has the Potential to Destroy us’: Jeremy Corbyn's Management of the Problem of Anti‐semitism in the Labour Party10
The language of imperial violence0
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The Crisis at the CBI0
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?0
Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election0
The complicated business of social movements0
The Future of Northern Ireland: the Role of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Institutions0
The crisis of writing about the crisis of democracy0
Independence is not Going Away: The Importance of Education and Birth Cohorts0
The problem with constitutions0
Unprecedented Times, a Very Precedented Result: the 2021 Senedd Election0
The Good, the Not so Good, and Liz Truss: MPs’ Evaluations of Postwar Prime Ministers0
Why the WASPI has no Sting: Gender, Generation and Pension Inequalities0
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Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police0
The 2021 Metro Mayors Elections: Localism Rebooted?0
A Hundred Years of Labour Governments0
First Responders, Last Resort0
China: there may be troubles ahead0
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The Politics of Power and of Support: Introduction to an Andrew Gamble Inspired Special Section on the Conservative Party0
Over‐rating Prime Ministers?0
Farmer Protests and Income Developments in the EU0
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail0
The road to Brexit: a view from the left0
The Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2022: A Fresh Approach to Social Mobility. A Commentary0
Children of Littlechild: Ten Steps to Public Ownership0
The UK General Election in Scotland: The End of an Era, Age of Ultra‐Competition or Interregnum?0
Big Tech Lobbying in the EU0
The Degenerative Tendencies of Long‐Serving Governments…1963…1996…2009…the Conservatives in 2022?0
Capitalism's feeding frenzy0
From ‘I Think’ to ‘I Feel’0
Labour, the Unions and Proportional Representation0
Let's be more ‘dialectical’ about China0
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda0
The Governance of the BBC0
Do the Conservatives Believe in Social Mobility?0
How to kick balls correctly0
Liberalism: the curmudgeonly approach0
Trotsky versus carbofascism0
Women and Civility in British Politics: Reflections on a Changing Environment0
Assange's trials and tribulations0
The Persistence of the Hostile Environment after the Windrush Scandal0
UK‐US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’0
Time for ‘real’ government0
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding0
The powerful committee of those not in power0
As You Were: The Scottish Parliament Election of 20210
Dobbs v. Jackson and the Revival of the States' Rights Constitution0
Were recent constitutional reforms desirable?0
The Labour Party Under Keir Starmer: ‘Thanks, But no “isms” Please!’0
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work0
Introduction: Policing the Permacrisis0
Can ethical liberals do any better against unethical opponents?0
Covid! It’s the Chinese! No! It’s the ‘others’0
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Introduction: Regulating the Public Sphere in a Post‐Truth World0
Three English By‐Elections–What Have we Learned?0
Orwell: the good and the bad0
‘Thirteen Wasted Years’: A Strategy for Starmer?0
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?0
To speak or not to speak?0
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies0
From Estimating to Explaining and Eliminating Ethnic Disproportionality in Stop and Search0
Elite Studies: for a New Approach0
Greater Britain getting smaller?0
Keeping Democracies Alive: The Role of Public Service Media0
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics0
A love letter to the north London working class0
Populism: politics of immediacy, without responsibility for the consequences0
Policy making: getting your ducks in a row0
Building a More United Kingdom: a Conservative Case for Constitutional Reform10
The Remaking of Conservatism: Boris Johnson and the Politics of Brexit0
‘Ever Greater Divergence’, but…: The Ongoing Saga of Brexit and Financial Services0
Labour's Politics of Anti‐Neoliberalism from Corbyn to Starmer0
The sharks surrounding the NHS0
Doom, gloom, and justice0
Can Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer Save the UK?0
The Power of Unintended Consequences: Strategic Naïvety, China and the End of the US Empire0
The Limits of ‘Opportunity’: Is There a Clear Labour or Conservative View of Social Mobility?0
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?0
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons0
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