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peterallen.bsky.social
Professor of Politics & Co-Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, U.K. / British politics, representation, public sphere / HOW TO THINK ABOUT POLITICS out Feb(US) March(UK) w/OUP / http://www.peter-allen.co.uk
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Cambridge University is looking for 2 Assistant Professors in Public Policy to work in the Faculty of Human, Social, & Political Science, starting August 2025. Scholars with research & teaching experience in public policy are encouraged to apply by 10 March 2025. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50248/

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New fun pub - The Authentic A**hole (particularly proud of getting title accepted) ✅ Politicians viewed as authentic when they stick to their positions despite pressure ✅ True even when voters disagree with those positions ✅ Authenticity translates to electoral advantage tinyurl.com/25us7y7z

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We (@psapolpsychology.bsky.social‬) have put together a fortnightly series of six online seminars, starting next Wednesday 5 March. Please do register and come along to hear about the latest work in political psychology from some brilliant speakers! www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

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Blog post on our new article now online with Global Public Health - where is menstruation in global health policy and why does this matter? (Also tagging lead author and wonderful PhD researcher @josephinemcall.bsky.social!)

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Our new Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social is officially up and running! 🎉 So excited to be running this with my brilliant colleagues @elizabethjevans.bsky.social and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social Keep an eye out for more to come! 👇

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What in the Mandella Effect is this idea that New Labour was pro immigration? That's not how I remember it. This feels like internalising a criticism. www.ft.com/content/15f7...

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How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

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On Tuesday March 25th in Bath, I will be in conversation with the brilliant Aditya Chakrabortty to mark the launch of my new book, HOW TO THINK ABOUT POLITICS. Tickets are free, you can book and find more details here — tiny.cc/HTTAPlaunch

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I always enjoy this annual Politico list as it is presented as a bit of fun, yet is always inadvertently revealing about how Westminster actually works. www.politico.eu/article/west...

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Excellent article that contains the unimprovable sentence, “Sir Keir learns by doing, like a toddler squishing playdough through his hands.”

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Last week @uniofbathipr.bsky.social and I hosted @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social for a conversation about his book, In The Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea. The recording of the event is now available — youtu.be/oNe9CUtXnSY?...

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My book is now available to pre-order from OUP ahead of a March 27th UK release date. Use the code AUFLY30 to get it for £11.89 — global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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I've been co-writing this beer blog since 2007. We've been doing a version of this weekly round-up since 2014. If you're interested in beer and pubs, you might like it.

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The print copy of the most recent Renewal arrived recently, completing this volume and our last as the current editorial team.

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We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course. With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...

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My new book HOW TO THINK ABOUT POLITICS: A GUIDE IN FIVE PARTS will be published by OUP next month in paperback and ebook. I argue that to understand politics, we must look past the daily fluctuations and instead focus on the fundamental constants of political life. Preview here — shorturl.at/mqLRt

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BLOG POST: The ongoing demise of pub grub – “It’s interesting how often we find ourselves in pubs that no longer serve food and hear people ask at the bar: ‘Is the kitchen open?’ They haven’t updated their mental model from before the pandemic.” 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/01/the-...

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Reading @guardianheather.bsky.social excellent UK-EU reset piece from December again (here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...) and it made me think how a classic public policy theory – Kingdon’s multiple streams framework – helps us keep track of Labour’s approach to the ‘reset’.

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📈 New post from me about Labour’s growth problem 📈 I argue that there isn’t a clear ‘theory of growth’ that Starmer and Reeves share. So there is a risk of a Frankenstein’s monster of incommensurate ideas. 🧵 benansell.substack.com/p/grasping-f...

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My paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com) is now out on: ❓How do people derive social class of representatives and the public? The headline is that working-class parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as such (compared to otherwise identical lay public) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC” Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money. In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...

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This is a great read — and is currently open access.

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