Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.
This is good on the US case. Seems to affect left- and right-wingers in the US.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
British Election Study
Blame Converse for 'constrained' ;-) Though 'innocent' was my choice haha
Evidence for a 'Steve Bray' effect. From 2014, British left-wingers tended to become more ideological. To a degree, I suspect that Brexit-related socialization was driving this.
A worthy goal, but becoming harder and harder 😵💫
Hoping it ends 5-5 tonight ;-)
Thanks :-) Yes, a lot of it wasn't rational! As Jones says in the book, lots of extreme Remainers didn't know much about the EU. And as you say, lots of the innovations of 2017-19 were carried into the current left-liberal movement.
Tottenham Hotspur are such a good example of path dependency that I sometimes mention them in class; promise followed by failure seems to be in the club's DNA and quite inescapable for the club's doomed custodians.
Picking at the open wounds of the 2017-19 parliament can be gratifying, but invariably leads to festering and sepsis 😵💫
I think you're overreacting. Many of us are fond of European integration, yet are fonder still of democracy.
As a Bluesky sensitivity reader I must issue a warning for this piece but I still think you should read it 👇
Correctly, Bluesky agreed that Matt Goodwin crossed a rubicon when he disputed the Gorton and Denton result. Yet the People's Vote campaign did this on a much bigger scale than Goodwin.
As promised, here’s my review of No Second Chances by @morganj0nes.bsky.social.
Spoiler alert – I really dislike the extreme, anti-democratic and counter-productive People’s Vote campaign.
www.thepathnottaken.net/p/fiasco-the...
Good read, agree with it
Many congratulations on it! I left some of my soul on that campaign trail 🤣
Pleased with this thoughtful and interesting review of my book:
As promised, here’s my review of No Second Chances by @morganj0nes.bsky.social.
Spoiler alert – I really dislike the extreme, anti-democratic and counter-productive People’s Vote campaign.
www.thepathnottaken.net/p/fiasco-the...
Hope to see you at Oxford PSA butt
Llongyfarchiadau!
Equally surprised and delighted to win this!
And once again Bluesky is outraged to discover that Labour has a tradition that isn’t liberal
(I have my own criticisms of Blue Labour, but I am bemused by the furore every time someone Labour says work has dignity, place matters, relationships matter, change isn’t always good)
Seven years on, it remains challenging to write about the People's Vote movement with any degree of objectivity. It is difficult to recall a more counterproductive and scandalous campaign.
Currently writing a review of this book and will publish on my Substack shortly. I should know better, but it's so difficult not to pick at the scars of 2016-19!
I'm now clinically fed up with post-by-election analysis telling Labour that it has to choose between middle-class cosmopolitan liberals (Gorton) and the white working class (Denton). This is cobblers because it's based on the misconception that there is only one ideological dimension.
Never seen you so angry 🤣
I'm pleased to have another academic paper published, this one in Cambridge University Press' prestigious Ecclesiastical Law Journal. This one is open access so you can have a read: “Discovering Anglicanism – ecclesiology at Lambeth Conferences 1867–1998”. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm already a UCU dep rep.
Unfortunately, the problems also create bad morale within departments and this is infectious.
Puts marking in perspective!
