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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Could we bring back Clem Attlee?33
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About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)26
Labour Party expels Jews for ‘antisemitism’23
Staying Power: The Resilience of the Scottish Independence Movement19
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Right‐wing populism: can it be stopped?16
The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act15
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food15
Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy15
American pre‐Trump blunders in Ukraine14
The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics14
Unbroken, but Dangerous: The UK 's Political Finance Regime and the Rationale for Reform12
Nostalgia as mental pollution12
An Assessment of the Resilience of Local Government in England: Was it Well‐Equipped to Overcome the Covid‐19 Pandemic?12
The good old days?: a study in Labourist declinism11
The flight of the USA from Afghanistan11
Why are we equals? Just because?11
Liz Truss between dogma and ideology11
Brazil has many problems: one is Bolsonaro10
Caught in a Vicious Cycle: Where are we with Stop and Search?8
Epistemic Injustice in Budgetary Politics: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture8
Fixing the ‘Polycrisis’ in Local Government Finance: the Limits of More Incremental Reform8
No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics8
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State’8
Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction8
How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income?7
Shrinking the United Kingdom: Rebranding the Realm after the Secession of the Irish Free State7
The End of the Rhetorical Line? The ‘Partygate’ Investigation into former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson7
Continental ‘Tories’: How Different from ‘our’ Tories?7
The Politics of the British Environment since 19457
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 ‘pleonectic’ rift7
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation6
Xinjiang: perhaps not genocide, but certainly appalling5
Labour's Economic Strategy: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture5
The Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?5
US Republicans and the New Fusionism5
On the Impossibility of Neoliberal Success: A Response to Michael Jacobs5
Brexit and the Death of Devolution5
Hedging Bets; British Business Lobbying in the European Union post‐Brexit5
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Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election5
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party4
Business and Politics in the United States4
A confusing study of revolutions4
Russia and Ukraine ‘Returning’ to Europe. If Only4
Orwell: the good and the bad4
Russia‐Ukraine Conflict: It's More Complicated Than We Were Told4
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Who started the second Cold War?4
Ethical Capitalism, but Still Capitalism4
Ideas in Politics in International Context4
American wars and Greek tragedies4
Everyday Economy and Levelling Up4
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party4
Israel's Catastrophic Failures4
Bouncing Back from the ‘Mid‐Term Blues’: Myth or Reality in Postwar Britain?3
French Social Democracy in Turmoil3
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies3
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police3
Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board3
An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?3
Elections and Democracy in Turkey: Reconsidering Competitive Authoritarianism in the Age of Democratic Backsliding3
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades?3
Xi Jinping's Climb to the Top3
‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons3
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail3
A Behavioural Science Approach to Tackling Sexism and Misogyny in Policing: Interventions for Instigating Cultural Change3
When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide3
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission3
Reforming the Established Church: History and Proposals3
Why Sinoscepticism will Remake British Politics3
Capitalism's feeding frenzy3
Heads in the Sand: the Absence of Employers in New Developments in UK Active Labour Market Policy3
‘Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy: Revisiting the Case of Hungary3
The Crisis of Everyday Liveability, Policy and Politics3
Capitalism good or bad, but no alternative on the horizon2
Growthmanship in the Twenty‐First Century12
The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 20242
Starmer's sorry sad saga2
The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?2
Levelling Up the UK: If not the Conservatives, will Labour Learn the Lessons from Past Policy Failings?2
Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords2
Planning and Solar Farms: A Front Line in Net Zero Disputes?2
Cyprus: the story of the intervention of 19742
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian2
Localism, Levelling Up and Taking Back Control: Tensions in the Ambiguous Justification of English Devolution2
Is inequality really not that bad?2
Issue Information ‐ TOC2
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
How Trump Gets on Our Nerves2
Equality can divide2
London's ULEZ: Where Next for Curbing Emissions?2
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid2
The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?2
The Politics of England: National Identities and Political Englishness2
Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic2
Beveridge at Eighty: Learning the Right Lessons2
A Four‐Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work2
The Rules of the Coronation: Differentiating Convention from Practice and Custom1
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Restructuring UK government at the Centre—Why the IfG Commission's Naïve Plan will not Work1
The Everyday Economy: Introduction1
Unite against Trumpism!1
Where did it all go wrong?1
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?1
Unlocking the Pensions Debate: The Origins and Future of the ‘Triple Lock’1
Liberty After Neoliberalism1
The Roma Holocaust should not be forgotten1
Does Libertarianism Provide a Justification for Vaccine Hesitancy?1
No Wokery, Please, We Are Leftist1
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?1
What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?1
Understanding Inequality in the UK : What Can We Learn from the Deaton Review?1
What is wrong with government in the US, UK, France and Canada?1
Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice1
Addressing Inequality and Creating Educational Opportunity in Feltham: A Systems Approach to Local Change1
Towards a New Ireland1
Multicultural Nationalism: Saving the White Working Class from Blue Labour?1
A storm of complexity1
From Estimating to Explaining and Eliminating Ethnic Disproportionality in Stop and Search1
Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform1
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection1
The NHS: still worth fighting for, but pick the right battles1
‘Friend or Foe?’: Brexit and French Bashing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party (2016–2022)1
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 Rise and Rise of English Nationalism?1
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism1
The Vices of Values: Matthew Goodwin and the Politics of Motivation1
Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald : Comparing the Rise of Reform with the Rise of Labour1
Why Strike Ballots are Undemocratic1
Women and the Labour Party: Gender and the Writing of British Political History1
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right1
Labour's Planning Reform: A View from London1
From Official to Grassroots Racism: Transformation of Anti‐Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia1
Covid and our civil liberties1
Revisionism as Statecraft: David Marquand, the SDP Split and the Politics of Community1
Democracy as a peaceful civil war1
Social movements re‐imagine the world1
On Surprises, Strategy, the Economy and What Comes Next for Scottish Independence1
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Anti‐Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting1
Did Covid‐19 transform the European Union into a ‘community of destiny’?1
Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?1
So, what is terrorism?1
Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System1
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police1
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?1
Nothing works, but plenty to do1
Bringing the Emigration State Back In1
Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System1
David Marquand: One of our Great Progressive Thinkers1
The trouble the USA (and most of us) are in0
The Crisis at the CBI0
The Making of Empirical Political Science in the UK: Jean Blondel, David Butler and Peter Pulzer0
Orwell revisited once again0
Rental Reform: Recalibrating the Landlord–Tenant Relationship in England0
Epidemics and institutions: do they cope?0
The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion0
Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal0
The memoirs of a whip in love with his leaders0
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The Co‐op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government0
Modernising the House: Why the 2024 Parliament Highlights the Need to Formalise Party‐Group Rights in the House of Commons0
Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics0
The Road to Victory Runs Through Scotland? Prospects for Labour in the Post‐Sturgeon Era0
Dobbs v. Jackson and the Revival of the States' Rights Constitution0
What Would the British Party System Look Like under Proportional Representation?0
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Tocqueville's nationalist dilemma0
The Scottish National Party’s Economic Prospectus for Independence: Out with the Old?0
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: Lessons from Comparative Experience0
The language of imperial violence0
Power with Purpose? Further Reflections on Strengthening the Centre of Government0
Walking the Tightrope: Private and Public Interests in Conservative Immigration Policy0
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda0
Smartphones and mental illness0
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Strategies for Climate Change Post COP260
What we Talk About When we Talk About the Labour Party0
Keeping the oligarchs at bay0
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Beyond Liberal Individualism: What Role, if any, for Socialism? David Marquand's Search for an Adequately Radical Political Philosophy0
Building a More United Kingdom: a Conservative Case for Constitutional Reform10
Recollecting people messing up with Europe and those who didn't0
‘Caring’ views from anywhere0
Re‐building capitalism0
Talent Policy: Problems and Solutions0
Partnering with Agents: How the Covid‐19 Pandemic changed Relations between the UK Government and Public Service Contractors0
Indian Islamophobia as Racism0
The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands0
The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History0
How to get rich: be an asset manager0
Still believing in the glorious promise of the internet?0
Towards the Vernacular, Away from Politics? Political History after the ‘New Political History’0
Let's be more ‘dialectical’ about China0
Lessons from the Portuguese Socialists: How Dialogue with the Left can deliver Political and Economic Stability0
Beveridge's Wager0
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The Fundamentals of Public Ownership: Learning from UK Historical Experience and Recent Scottish Policy0
What (some) Russians think0
To speak or not to speak?0
Interrogating the Political Economy of Age0
The Persistence of the Hostile Environment after the Windrush Scandal0
The Good, the Not so Good, and Liz Truss: MPs’ Evaluations of Postwar Prime Ministers0
A Social Guarantee to Meet Everyone's Needs within Environmental Limits0
On Neoliberalism and Institutions: A Response to Michael Jacobs0
A Critical Appraisal of Labour's AI Agenda0
Careful What you Wish for? Risk and Reward with Scottish Tax Devolution0
Some wars are rational0
Mainstreaming Authoritarianism0
A Second Scottish Independence Referendum: Should the Diaspora get a Vote?0
Liberalism: the curmudgeonly approach0
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Our Man in Madrid: Bullfighting Enters the Political Arena0
‘Global Britain’: a little wobbly?0
What are Jews for?0
The Future of Northern Ireland: the Role of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Institutions0
How to be a ‘spin’ dictator0
Raising the Pension Age0
Caste Out: Christian Dalits in Pakistan0
Vision and vigilance in the United Kingdom and the European Union0
Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?0
Kabul and Washington: how it all went wrong0
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Recalling the Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Liberalism and the New Politics of Disability0
Can ethical liberals do any better against unethical opponents?0
Introduction: Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?0
Introduction: Governing from the Centre‐Left in the 2020s0
Racism towards the Chinese Minority in Malaysia: Political Islam and Institutional Barriers0
Rise like lions… Ye are many—they are few0
Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis0
After Biden: Lessons for Labour and the Global Centre‐Left from the United States0
Uniting the human race0
Can Europe survive its flaws, crises, and problems?0
Treating the Symptoms, Not the Causes: What's Wrong with Demos's Report The Human Handbrake: How Whitehall Culture Holds Back Public Service Reform0
Labour, the Unions and Proportional Representation0
Scrutiny of Police Institutions and the Spectre of Culture0
On Institutions and Economic Policy: A Response to Michael Jacobs0
Before the Russian invasion0
The ‘good old’ seventies?0
History as ‘An Excellent Cow Yielding the Butter One Wants’0
Universality: A Battleground for UK Public Service Media in the Platform Age0
It helps to be white, male, rich, etc.0
A Hapless Government Produces an Unlikely Hero0
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