By Dr. John FitzGibbon
Fracking: What’s The Real Harm?
Students on the final year Critical Issues in Contemporary Politics module were this year asked to produce blog posts as part of their assessment.
6 Issues Arising From the Scottish Referendum
Students on the final year Critical Issues in Contemporary Politics module were this year asked to produce blog posts as part of their assessment. The students were asked to write […]
Unelected, unrepresentative and undemocratic? What does the contemporary House of Lords actually look like?
Students on the final year Critical Issues in Contemporary Politics module were this year asked to produce blog posts as part of their assessment.
Researching Social Movements in Bangladesh
This is the first in a series of five blog posts by Razia Shariff, a Doctoral candidate in the Politics and International Relations programme, as she conducts her field work […]
Five Immediate Points on UKIP’s Rochester and Strood By Election Win
By John FitzGibbon (Senior Lecturer in Politics) It has not even been 24 hours since the election of Mark Reckless as the MP for the Kent constituency of Rochester and […]
The Real Winner of the Scottish Independence Referendum is……Democracy!
The Real Winner of the Scottish Independence Referendum is……Democracy! By Dr. Soeren Keil
Leadership capital ebbs and flows but trends downwards, influencing political fortunes over time
By Mark Bennister and Ben Worthy How can we measure leadership? What makes a leader succeed or fail? Here Mark Bennister and Ben Worthy examine the idea of ‘leadership capital’ […]
Little sign of life, but look closely and the Lib Dems can cling on
By Dr. Mark Bennister, Senior Lecturer in Politics Could we get a few more spotlights in here? Danny Lawson/PA Wire There is a party fighting for its political life, desperate […]