AbstractIt is over 20 years since the publication of the Asymmetric Power Model (APM). In the ensuing period, Britain has faced multiple challenges: the increasing fragmentation
of public services; austerity politics; devolution; and, most recently, coronavirus disease and Brexit. [...]
AbstractThis article examines how the Conservative Party dominated British politics from 2010 to 2024 despite this period being one of instability and crisis. It argues that
a key source of this turmoil was the Conservative Party itself, which under a succession of Prime Ministers struggled to formulate an effective statecraft strategy. [...]
AbstractWhilst there are significant electoral advantages for political parties to target women’s votes, scholarship on recent electoral appeals questions the quality of
gendered policy promises to address deep structural gender inequalities existing within the British state. [...]
AbstractThis article combines an understanding of British politics grounded in the Asymmetric Power Model with intersectionality to comprehend Muslim women’s experiences
in the Labour Party. This paper shows that an intersectional framework and an analysis of political parties’ relationships with their members are essential to understanding [...]
AbstractThe Review of the UK Constitution was an eighteen-month project assessing the functioning of the UK constitution resulting in a set of practical, innovative, and robust
recommendations. This article draws out one theme from this research, the offer of Deliberative Mini Publics (DMPs) in the process of constitutional change in the [...]
AbstractHow can UK and devolved governments be more effective when addressing chronic problems like inequalities or crises like climate change? The dominant story is of pessimism:
policymaking is bound to a Westminster tradition of short-termism, elitism, and centralization, and reform efforts are doomed to failure. [...]
AbstractWhile devolution in Scotland and Wales is often established as the settled will, it has been built on unsettled ground, lacking a robust system of intergovernmental
relations, and sitting increasingly at odds with the central principle of parliamentary sovereignty. [...]
AbstractThe UK is characterised by spatial inequality between and within regions, alongside an over-centralised asymmetric model of governance. In England especially, these
features are stark, and throughout the last decade, politicians have responded by forging a distinctive programme of English devolution focused on city-regions. [...]
AbstractThe UK state has been through many periods of perceived crisis, but the instability of the last decade has shaken some of the foundational institutions of British politics.
Our main argument is that the rise of political instability relates to the failure of British politics to respond to structural inequality in society and politics. [...]
