British Politics and Policy at LSE

Evidence-based social science for UK policy and politics

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Party politics and elections

From rumours to numbers: how do we know if a Prime Minister is in trouble?

January 19th, 2022

Review of intergovernmental relations: the new interministerial structures are a step in the right direction

January 21st, 2022

In the aftermath of the referendum, people were less inclined to move when they were aligned with the Brexit preferences of their district

January 18th, 2022

Party politics and elections

Trust in politics has a reasonable correlation with a range of outcomes, including vote choice, turnout, and policy preferences

January 17th, 2022

COVID-19

COVID-19 interventions: what behavioural scientists should – and shouldn’t – be advising government on

January 13th, 2022

COVID-19 in parliamentary debates: Opposition sentiment started out relatively positive towards the government but increasingly became more negative

January 12th, 2022

Conservative voters and those living in Conservative constituencies appear more likely to be vaccinated than Labour supporters

December 27th, 2021

Economy and Society

Economy and Society

High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity

January 10th, 2022

Economy and Society

Official statistics underestimate wealth inequality in Britain

January 7th, 2022

Economy and Society

Doing Business: how countries gamed the World Bank’s business rankings

January 6th, 2022

Fairness and Equality

Fairness and Equality

Despite the focus on Russell Group institutions as drivers of social mobility, it is actually universities outside this group that are contributing most strongly to social mobility

December 6th, 2021

Fairness and Equality

The interests and vulnerabilities of female forced migrants need to be recognised and integrated within the national strategy for tackling violence against women and girls

November 30th, 2021

Fairness and Equality

Bulldozing Brexit: Masculine imagery dominated both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn’s 2019 general election campaigns

November 11th, 2021

Brexit

In the aftermath of the referendum, people were less inclined to move when they were aligned with the Brexit preferences of their district

January 18th, 2022

The macroeconomic impacts of the new protocol on Northern Ireland and how they can be mitigated

December 9th, 2021

Fuzzy frontiers: Remainers are more fluid than Leavers in their Englishness, but they are similar in the fluidity of their Britishness

November 1st, 2021

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