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What was the role of masculine imagery in the 2019 UK election campaign? In her analysis of visuals used in tweets, Jessica Smith finds that both
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How do political parties speak to women in their manifestos, and what women do they speak to? Anna Sanders, Francesca Gains, and Claire Annesley
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Europe has recently become closely associated with LGBTQ rights. It remains unclear, however, what the role of this association is in everyday
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Jessica C. Smith discusses the gender dimension of the government’s latest reshuffle. She concludes that levelling up representation is not just
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Rebecca Montacute writes that much of Boris Johnson’s reshuffled cabinet comes from similar backgrounds, and has gone through the same
Emily Harmer and Rosalynd Southern assess online abuse directed at MPs on Twitter. The findings suggest that for the receipt of certain types of
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Numerous studies have linked the decline of religion with falling social capital, as younger generations are deprived of a valuable source of social
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Why do politicians represent lesbian, gay, and bisexual citizens’ interests, particularly if they are not LGB themselves? Drawing on an analysis of
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Conceiving of Parliament as a workplace as well as a representative arena, Cherry Miller explores the everyday consequences for gendered power
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Mária Žuffová discusses the role of freedom of information (FOI) laws in journalism. By surveying journalists, interviewing activists and civil
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In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain’s colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa were renamed
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Geoff Page, Maddy Power, and Ruth Patrick discuss how, for many families, school uniforms represent a financial burden that tips precariously
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Geoff Page, Maddy Power, and Ruth Patrick discuss how, for many families, school uniforms represent a financial burden that tips precariously
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Geoff Page, Maddy Power, and Ruth Patrick discuss how, for many families, school uniforms represent a financial burden that tips precariously
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Using estimates from the Labour Force Survey, Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose fill in some of the gaps of the government’s Sewell Report on race