Are the Lords of England quickly becoming irrelevant now that their lineages are being stripped of their right to rule? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55hsIb32cZY Lord Clifford is utterly incensed that Tony Blair wants to sack him, and the other two thirds of the …
Central bank governors in EU & political affiliations
Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik is a visiting researcher at Leiden University. He can be contacted at: l.ennser-jedenastik@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Over recent decades it has become the norm for central banks to be made formally independent from governments and political actors. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik writes that despite this insulation …
The danger of European populism
Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. The success of populist and Eurosceptic parties was one of the key narratives to emerge from the European Parliament elections in May. Ruth Wodak writes on the platforms which …
Policy bubbles: What factors drive their birth, maturity and death?
Moshe Maor is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His full academic profile can be found here. A policy bubble is a policy overreaction that is reinforced by positive feedback over a relatively long period of time. Policy bubbles impose social costs without producing offsetting benefits. Moshe Maor explores …
The European Parliament is a failed experiment in pan-European democracy
Strengthening the European Parliament has often been viewed as the best method of addressing the EU’s alleged ‘democratic deficit’. Stephen Booth writes that while this perspective has led to the Parliament’s powers being increased successively over recent decades, the effect of these …