School of Politics & International Relations: Recent submissions
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Foreign Policy
(Building Progressive Alternatives, 2021)Jeremy Corbyn has proved to be one of Labour's most popular and yet one of its most divisive leaders among the membership. In this carefully researched collection of essays, Corbyn's influence on and legacy for the ... -
The Favourite Son’s Favourites: Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Home State Effect in the 1982 Midterm Elections
(New Perspectives on the American Presidency, 2022)This book presents a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing how midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. -
The Case for the Political Constitution
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023-04-20)This book examines the far-reaching changes made to the constitution in the United Kingdom in recent decades. -
Why the vote wasn't enough for Selma
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‘Everyone’s a critic’, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
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Midterm Elections and the Modern Presidency: Parliamentary Party Leadership in a Separation of Powers System
(Routledge, 2024-03-25)This wide-ranging collection offers insightful contributions on the study of campaigns and political behaviour by using an organizing conceptual framework of a "crossroads" to focus on the 2022 midterm election. -
Hamilton's deracialization: Barack Obama's racial politics in context
(2017-01-01)Many commentators have described Barack Obama as a 'deracialized' politician. In contrast to 'racialized' Black candidates, deracialized politicians are said to deemphasize their Black racial identity, downplay the racial ... -
Proudly for Brooke: Race-Conscious Campaigning in 1960s Massachusetts
(2018-09-01)Scholars have credited the victory of Edward Brooke, America's first popularly elected black U.S. senator, to a deracialized or color-blind election strategy in which both the candidate and the electorate ignored racial ... -
‘Race was a motivating factor’: re-segregated schools in the American states
(2019-01-02)During the Obama presidency, Republicans made major gains in state legislative elections, especially in the South and the Midwest. Republicans’ control grew from 13 legislatures in 2009 to 32 in 2017. A major but largely ... -
Theresa May and LGBT Equality
(2023-01-01)This chapter argues that Theresa May’s premiership, although highly disordered after losing her majority in the 2017 general election, made some important strides for LGBT equality. Theresa May’s Cabinet included the first ... -
The Substantive Representation of Men: Intersectionality, Masculinities, and Men’s Interests
(Wiley, 08-05-2024)Men’s numerical over-representation in politics leads to complacency regarding their substantive representation. Yet the men in politics are not descriptively representative of most men and are drawn disproportionately ... -
How to be Critical of Security Today? Life in Motion, Untimeliness and the Critique of End-Thinking
(Brill, 2023-11-16)This article starts from the observation of intense political mobilisations of existential endings. One of the defining challenges for critical engagements with such mobilisations remains how to take war, environmental ... -
Introduction
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All Claims Are Representative Claims: Response to Thomás Zicman de Barros
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021-05-31)This response to Thomás Zicman de Barros argues that so-called post-representative movements do not avoid representation as speaking for. A deconstructive reading of Gayatri Spivak's distinction between Darstellung and ...