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WHO and COVID-19: Stress testing the boundary of Science and Politics
Specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasize the importance of impartiality and independence to ensure state compliance and buy-in to their institutional mandate. For functionalists, the ... -
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion
(SAGE Publications, 2024-01-17)Do local political party members reflect the views of voters in their constituencies? Since candidate selection by local party members is the most common form of candidate selection in the United Kingdom, it is important ... -
Racially Polarised Partisanship and the Obama Presidency
(Springer, 2016-11-24)The book will make an important contribution to the debates about the Obama legacy. This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the ... -
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
(Red Globe Press, 2018)Carefully balancing contemporary topics with in-depth analysis of their underlying processes and historical roots, this is essential reading for all students and researchers in the field of American government and politics. -
Racial Policy Under Trump
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-09-14)This edited collection delves into the key aspects of the Trump campaign promises around immigration, trade, social and foreign policy, and unpicks how the first year of the presidency has played out in delivering them. -
Low-Resource Candidates and Fundraising Appeals
(Oxford University Press, 2020-04-01)This volume surveys the vast political science literature on this subject, emphasizing contemporary research and topics and encouraging cross-fertilization among research strands. -
Neil Kinnock and Labour’s European Policy
(Routledge, 2022-05-18)This book will be of key interest to researchers and students in the fields of political studies and contemporary history as well as the interested general reader. -
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
(Edinburgh University Press, 2022-09)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 ...