Red Ed versus City Boy: the link between party funding and reform of...
By Dr Ben Worthy One question about the Great Recession is why political parties have not done more to reform the financial system that helped make it happen. It might, disappointingly, come down to...
View ArticleA Change is Gonna Come? Learning from the Tories
By Ben Worthy and Mark Bennister How do parties regain power? Perhaps Ed Miliband should look to his opponents for some tips. Tim Bale’s new book on the Conservative party offers some important...
View ArticleJob-Shares for MPs: A Step on the Way to Resolving a Major Problem
By Dr Rosie Campbell and Professor Sarah Childs In a blog on Wednesday, Ruth Fox from the Hansard Society argued that job-shares for MPs are a marginal solution for a major problem. Dr Fox is right,...
View ArticleWomen on top – promotional patterns in the House of Commons
By Peter Allen This week saw the publication of the Counting Women In report ‘Sex and Power 2013’. As I have written elsewhere, with Philip Cowley, the media reacted by focusing on a the most troubling...
View ArticlePoor Women’s Representation –‘Shocking But Not Surprising’– Don’t Blame the...
By Dr Rosie Campbell and Professor Sarah Childs Women’s under representation in Parliament has well and truly hit the headlines: Samantha Cameron isn’t happy about it; job-shares are suggested as the...
View ArticleWhy parties need to change, but not too much
Parties need to adapt to the changing ways in which people engage in politics, but they must also challenge individualised consumerist politics and provide a platform for collective decision-making...
View ArticleReforming the Labour Party: is Miliband Redistributing Power?
The true test of Miliband’s proposals for reform of the Labour Party’s relationship with trade unions and candidate selection will be the extent to which they empower or disempower ordinary members and...
View ArticleThe Lessons of Clacton and Heywood
In this expert analysis, Professor Eric Kaufmann explains how Ukip will damage the Tories in 2015 but may ultimately harm Labour. This post originally featured on Birkbeck’s departmental blog, 10 Gower...
View ArticleWho Will Win in 2015? Peter Kellner Talks to Birkbeck
By Dr Benjamin Worthy Peter Kellner, expert pollster and President of YouGov, spoke to the Birkbeck Centre for British Politics and Public Life on Wednesday 5 November. A podcast of the talk is also...
View ArticleFollowing the pink battle bus: where are the women voters in 2015?
By Dr Rosie Campbell, Reader in Politics, Department of Politics, Birkbeck On 11th February Harriet Harman launched the Labour party’s magenta battle bus intended to reach out to women voters. The bus...
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