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Brexit and the Labour Party: Europe, cosmopolitanism and the narrowing of traditions
The phenomenon of Brexit is reordering British politics. Its effects have led to political and cultural shock, disruption and rifts. This article explores how the phenomenon of Brexit has decentered the Labour Party’s ideational traditions. The article utilises a mixed methodology which combines qualitative and quantitative data in the form of scholarly literature on Labour history, Labour Party manifestoes, speeches and media interviews by front-line politicians as well as polling data. In particular, the article analyses how Labour politicians are reimagining the two main traditions of thought: the euro-enthusiast tradition and the euro-sceptic tradition. The article argues that Labour’s euro-enthusiasts are reimagining the tradition as a full blooded cosmopolitanism and this is simultaneously controversial and high risk because it has refashioned Labour’s interests into a narrower social and cultural electoral offering.
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State of the discipline: British politics in a cold climate
The purpose of this article is to assess the state of the discipline of British politics. The article takes as its starting point the historic emergence of the first coalition government since the end of Second World War and the impact of its politics of retrenchment. From here the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition's controversial higher education reforms in England are evaluated and the focus is unsurprisingly on the significant increase of tuition fees from September 2012, but also on the wider implications of the Browne Report. The article then analyses the changes in the discipline in the recent past, which reflect the tumultuous global events of the 1990s and the internationalisation of political science. The article then surveys the current obstacles and pressures that face scholars working in British politics such as the Research Excellence Framework and the emerging culture of the necessity for research income and its effects on scholarship. The article concludes with an argument for the efficacy of British politics as a discipline within political science.
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Blue and Purple Labour Challenges to the Welfare State: How should ‘Statist’ Social Democrats respond?
This article explores two influential strands of thinking about the welfare state, Blue Labour and Purple Labour, that have emerged following New Labour's defeat at the 2010 General Election. It is argued that although both of these new approaches raise some important issues about the relational and associational dimensions of social welfare as well as diversity and pluralism, those committed to universal and egalitarian goals should not abandon the ‘Statist’ Social Democratic approach to the welfare state.
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