British Politics and Policy at LSE

Evidence-based social science for UK policy and politics

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Party politics and elections

Parliamentary communication allowances do not increase electoral turnout or affect incumbents’ vote share

December 2nd, 2020

Party politics and elections

Green councillors, Labour MPs: time for the Greens to stop wishing away reality and shift strategy

December 1st, 2020

Democratic Audit

Has digitisation weakened democracy’s defences?

November 30th, 2020

What have we learned so far from the government’s COVID-19 policy?

November 27th, 2020

COVID-19

What have we learned so far from the government’s COVID-19 policy?

November 27th, 2020

The policy dynamics of COVID-19: what science can and cannot do

November 26th, 2020

The unevenness in the local economic impact of COVID-19 presents a serious challenge to the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda

November 25th, 2020

Economy and Society

Economy and Society

How the concentration of property rights within corporations has led to a rejection of democracy and a rise in inequality

November 2nd, 2020

Economy and Society

Experts without expertise: how the IFS, NAO, and OBR are underutilized in British newspapers

October 29th, 2020

Economy and Society

Transport infrastructure expenditure: while there is no strong evidence of significant regional differences, the data available is problematic

October 8th, 2020

Fairness and Equality

Fairness and Equality

Shifting norms on gender and leadership: are ambitious women punished in politics?

September 25th, 2020

Fairness and Equality

Part of art or part of life? Rap lyrics in criminal trials

August 27th, 2020

Fairness and Equality

Derecognising past honours: toppling statues can redirect passions, but towards what?

July 27th, 2020

Brexit

Boris Johnson is a serial political survivor, but the odds against him are becoming insurmountable

November 16th, 2020

Hard bargaining dies hard: the cultural factors behind Britain’s ill-suited Brexit negotiation strategy

October 19th, 2020

US-UK trade deal: what many Brexiters seem to want is the US to affirm not UK ‘sovereignty’, but UK superiority over Ireland and the EU

October 9th, 2020

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