Volume 96, Issue 2 is out now
Our latest issue features a collection titled 'Governing from the Centre Left', edited by Deborah Mabbett and Peter Sloman, as well as a host of other pieces on politics and public policy.
We’ve just released our April/June 2025 issue, with many articles free to read via Wiley’s website (see links below).
This issue features a collection titled 'Governing from the Centre Left' edited by Deborah Mabbett and Peter Sloman. In this collection, authors including Claire Ainsley, Jörg Michael Dostal and Eunice Goes examine how centre-left governments in North America, Australasia, and Western Europe have dealt with recent global pressures, and consider what lessons the UK Labour government should learn from its overseas counterparts.
Other articles include a commentary by Ben Jackson titled 'Poverty and the Labour Party'; John Connolly, Matthew Flinders and David Judge on 'How Not to Deliver Policies: Lessons in Undeliverability from the Conservative Governments of 2019–2024'; Stewart Lansley on 'Wealth Accumulation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'; and Coree Brown Swan, Paul Anderson, and Judith Sijstermans on 'Politics and the Pandemic: The UK Covid-19 Inquiry and Devolution'.
A selection of book reviews feature Victoria Brittain's review of 'Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan, Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement' by Afaf Jabiri, and Anna Coote's review of 'The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality', by David Goodhart.
Commentary
Poverty and the Labour Party - Ben Jackson
Collection: Governing from the Centre Left (Edited by Deborah Mabbett and Peter Sloman)
Introduction: Governing from the Centre-Left in the 2020s - Peter Sloman
Lessons from the Portuguese Socialists: How Dialogue with the Left can deliver Political and Economic Stability - Eunice Goes
The Making and Breaking of Jacinda Ardern's Labour Government, 2017–2023 -
The Contradictions of the Albanese Labor Government in Australia: The Promise and Limits of ‘Thin’ Labourism - Rob Manwaring, Emily Foley
After Biden: Lessons for Labour and the Global Centre-Left from the United States - Claire Ainsley
German Social Democracy: Hollowed Out But Still (Almost Always) in Government - Jörg Michael Dostal
Sorry for any Inconvenience Caused: Why Britain Messed up High Speed Rail - Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw
How Not to Deliver Policies: Lessons in Undeliverability from the Conservative Governments of 2019–2024 - John Connolly, Matthew Flinders, David Judge
Towards a (Minority) Shareholder State? The Labour Government's Fiscal Framework -José Tomás Labarca
The Co-op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government - Sean Kippin
Wealth Accumulation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Stewart Lansley
The Populist Playbook: Why Identity Trumps Policy and How Democrats Can Adapt - Daniel Brieba, Andrés Velasco
The Self-Magnification of British Leaders: Prime Ministers’ Perceptions and Projections of their Powers and Roles in the Postwar Era - Archie Brown, Nicholas James
Global Britain versus Little England? National Identity and the Future of the British Right - Tom Wraight, Kai Roland Green
Politics and the Pandemic: The UK Covid-19 Inquiry and Devolution - Coree Brown Swan, Paul Anderson, Judith Sijstermans
Very interesting! I didn’t know of this Issue yet. We are working on out issue #1