4/4. Recognising commuter students’ specific needs helps reduce awarding and experience gaps and strengthens inclusive education for all learners.
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3/4. It provides practical examples of how Political Studies educators can embed support for commuter students directly into curriculum design advancing equity through teaching, assessment, and learning environments.
2/4. The article highlights how many curricula still assume a traditional residential student model. Commuter students, who balance travel, work, and family responsibilities, often face hidden challenges that shape both experience and outcomes.
1/4. 📢New publication alert:
We are thrilled to announce the publication of “Meeting the support needs of commuter students through the Political Studies curriculum” by Susan Kenyon.
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4/4. Please read the full article:
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3/4. Though now absent from official discourse, Global Britain lives on as a geopolitical imaginary revealing both the aspirations and limits of post-Brexit identity narratives. The issue also honours the late Agnès Alexandre-Collier, a much-missed colleague and scholar.
2/4. Drawing on six linked articles, the piece shows how Global Britain functioned as both foreign policy framework and national narrative aimed at managing the UK’s ontological insecurity after leaving the EU, amid a changing 2020s geopolitical order.
1/4. 📢New article
“Global Britain: Imaginaries, identities, and ontological security” By Christopher Browning, Ben Wellings & Matteo Bonotti
The article examines how “Global Britain” emerged after Brexit as a re-articulation of the UK’s place in the world
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4/4. Beside Hungary and Turkey, the framework travels also to cases like India, Serbia, and Georgia, offering new insights into populism, corruption, and authoritarian resilience.
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3/4. The authors identify three strategies: partisan (co-optation & loyalty), institutional (capture, repression, legal manipulation), and discursive (delegitimising opponents & reframing accusations).
These strategies shift as regimes consolidate power.
2/4. Populists often rise on anti-corruption rhetoric, yet corruption allegations rarely end their rule. This article explains how populist leaders manage corruption in competitive authoritarian regimes, treating corruption management as a core strategy of regime survival.
1/4. New publication:
"Populist resilience to corruption: Institutional, partisan, and discursive strategies in Hungary and Turkey", by Digdem Soyaltin-Colella & Robert Csehi.
How do populist leaders survive corruption scandals, and stay in power?
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4/4. Rather than adding bolt-on employability content, optionality creates a productive symbiosis between learning and skills development, while offering additional pedagogical benefits.
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3/4. Higher Education (and Political Studies in particular) has long struggled to embed employability. Not because skills aren’t developed, but because students often lack space to reflect on, recognise, and articulate those skills.
2/4. The article explores how assessment optionality, giving students choice in how they’re assessed, can strengthen employability in Political Studies.
1/4.📢 New publication alert:
We are thrilled to announce the publication of: “Skilful symbiosis: Optionality and employability in Political Studies assessment”, by Jeremy FG Moulton.
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4/4. Reforms in 2005 and 2010 expanded legislative entrepreneurship, but reduced average success as bill volume surged.
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3/4. Key findings: Presidential urgency motions are the strongest predictor of passage. Leadership positions and seniority matter, while committee membership does not. Low-conflict and symbolic bills pass more often than national policy proposals.
2/4. Why do some senator-initiated bills become law while others fail?
Drawing on an original dataset of 2,993 Senate bills (1990–2022), this article examines how institutional conditions shape legislative success in Chile.
1/4. 📢 New article published
“More bills, more laws, but less success: Bill introduction and passage in Chile’s Senate, 1990–2022”, by Vicente Faúndez-Caicedo, Jhon Jaime-Godoy, Patricio Navia, and Felipe Barrueto
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4/4. The findings suggest that modernisation-driven democratic values coexist with the effects of China’s ideological engineering, raising questions about whether regime legitimacy ultimately depends on delivering democratic goods.
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3/4. The authors uncover a paradox: younger, postmaterialist generations show stronger democratic values, yet greater support for the current regime and weaker endorsement of competitive elections.
2/4. Have decades of socioeconomic modernisation led to a pro-democratic cultural shift in China?
Using Asian Barometer data (2011, 2016, 2019), this article revisits the debate between postmaterialist and political socialisation theories.
1/4. 📢 New article Alert
We're thrilled to announce the publication of:
“Ideological engineering against a postmaterialist shift: China’s pro-democratic but regime-supporting generations”, by Leqing Yang & Zhengxu Wang.
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4/4. Key finding: the shift is not driven primarily by social conservatism or religiosity. Instead, economic issues, especially taxation and pocketbook concerns, play a central role.
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3/4. Using panel data from the Norwegian local elections (2019 & 2023), the study tracks voting behaviour among immigrants, second-generation voters, and natives during a major right-wing electoral shift.
2/4. 2/4. The authors examine changing party preferences among immigrants in Norway and whether the long-standing “iron rule” of centre-left voting is breaking.
1/4. New Article Alert! 📢
We're thrilled to announce the publication of: "Social conservatism and changing party preferences among immigrants in Norway", by Johannes Bergh & Øyvin Kleven.
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2/2. We are delighted to recognise our 2025 reviewers. Please look at the link below for the full alphabetical list of reviewers:
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1/2. A huge thank you to our reviewers at Politics for their thoughtful engagement throughout 2025. Your constructive feedback, careful reading and thoughtful critique are essential to maintaining the highest standards of academic publishing
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