Read Political Insight articles top 50 articles
This year we celebrate 16 years of the PSA’s publication, Political Insight, ahead of the magazine ceasing production at the end of 2026. You can read more about this in the blog by Peter Geoghegan, editor or Political Insight. Together with SAGE publishing we have compiled a list of Political Insight’s top 50 articles and their authors, may of which are open access and free to read.
| Article | Author(s) | Group title |
|---|---|---|
| Feminism: A Fourth Wave? | Ealasaid Munro | Volume 4 Issue 2 |
| Red Wall: The Definitive Description | James Kanagasooriam, Elizabeth Simon | Volume 12 Issue 3 |
| Post-truth Politics | Jane Suiter | Volume 7 Issue 3 |
| Cracking Gender Stereotypes? Challenges Women Political Leaders Face | Shan-Jan Sarah Liu | Volume 10 Issue 1 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Politics | Birgit Schippers | Volume 11 Issue 1 |
| Brexit: Behind the Referendum | John Curtice | Volume 7 Issue 2 |
| Ukip, the 2015 General Election and Britain's EU Referendum | Matthew J. Goodwin | Volume 6 Issue 3 |
| Europe's Migration Crisis | James Hampshire | Volume 6 Issue 3 |
| Brave New World: Understanding the 2019 General Election | John Curtice | Volume 11 Issue 1 |
| ‘Youthquake’: How and Why Young People Reshaped the Political Landscape in 2017 | James Sloam, Rakib Ehsan, Matt Henn | Volume 9 Issue 1 |
| France’s Yellow Vests – Symptom of a Chronic Disease | Emiliano Grossman | Volume 10 Issue 1 |
| Can the UK Survive Muscular Unionism? | Ciaran Martin | Volume 12 Issue 4 |
| Populism, Anti-Populism and Democracy | Yannis Stavrakakis | Volume 9 Issue 3 |
| Austerity Britain – A Brief History | Ben Williams | Volume 10 Issue 1 |
| General Election 2024: How Britain Voted | John Curtice | Volume 15 Issue 3 |
| The Institutionalisation of Sexism in Politics | Joni Lovenduski | Volume 5 Issue 2 |
| Brexit and Britain’s Culture Wars | Maria Sobolewska, Robert Ford | Volume 11 Issue 1 |
| A Beginner’s Guide to Syria’s Civil War | Scott Lucas | Volume 7 Issue 1 |
| General Election 2017: A New Two-Party Politics? | John Curtice | Volume 8 Issue 2 |
| The Rise of Challenger Parties | Catherine De Vries, Sara Hobolt | Volume 11 Issue 3 |
| Yemen: Civil War and Humanitarian Catastrophe | Aaron Edwards | Volume 10 Issue 2 |
| Gotcha! Coronavirus, Crises and the Politics of Blame Games | Matthew Flinders | Volume 11 Issue 2 |
| Did Ukip win the referendum? | Simon Usherwood | Volume 7 Issue 2 |
| Brexit Means Brexit – But What Does Brexit Mean? | Volume 8 Issue 1 | |
| The Politics of Sports Mega-Events | Jonathan Grix | Volume 3 Issue 1 |
| Policy-Making in the Real World | Michael Hallsworth | Volume 2 Issue 1 |
| The British General Election of 2019: Was it Boris Wot Won it? | Will Jennings, Robert Ford, Tim Bale, Paula Surridge | Volume 13 Issue 1 |
| Boris Johnson and the Future of British Conservatism | Andrew S. Crines | Volume 10 Issue 3 |
| The Fascism of Donald Trump | Ben Worthy | Volume 16 Issue 3 |
| British Politics after Brexit | Andrew Gamble | Volume 8 Issue 1 |
| Citizens’ assemblies: a better way of doing democracy? | Alan Renwick | Volume 8 Issue 3 |
| Brexit, British Politics, and the Left-Right Divide | Paula Surridge | Volume 9 Issue 4 |
| Pressure Politics: The Role of Pressure Groups | Wyn Grant | Volume 5 Issue 2 |
| Reform of the Electoral College | Mark Rathbone | Volume 9 Issue 4 |
| Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? Gender, Power and Leadership in Troubled Times | Laura Shaw, Meryl Kenny, Emilia Belknap | Volume 11 Issue 2 |
| Donald Trump and the Middle East | Ian Black | Volume 9 Issue 1 |
| Young Environmental Activists are Doing it Themselves | Sarah Pickard | Volume 10 Issue 4 |
| The Genesis of English Nationalism | Michael Kenny | Volume 7 Issue 2 |
| 2024: The ‘Valence’ General Election? | Paula Surridge | Volume 15 Issue 3 |
| Why did Britain Vote to Leave the European Union? | Paul Whiteley | Volume 8 Issue 2 |
| Why British Politics is Not a Two-Party System | Chris Raymond | Volume 7 Issue 3 |
| English Nationalism, the 2019 Election and the Future of the British State | Michael Kenny | Volume 11 Issue 1 |
| The Conservative Party and Johnsonian Conservatism | Tim Heppell | Volume 11 Issue 2 |
| Votes at 16? How the Rest of the World Does it | Christine Huebner, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca | Volume 15 Issue 1 |
| Reforming Labour: The Leadership of Jeremy Corbyn | Andrew S. Crines | Volume 6 Issue 3 |
| Trump 2.0 and the New American Oligarchy | Katie Pruszynski | Volume 16 Issue 1 |
| Ukraine and Putin’s Post-Soviet Imperialism | Ursula Woolley | Volume 13 Issue 1 |
| Should the Voting Age be Lowered to 16 for UK Elections? | Jan Eichhorn | Volume 6 Issue 2 |
| The Beveridge Report at 80 | Kevin Hickson, Ben Williams | Volume 13 Issue 1 |
| ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Majority’: Theresa May and the Tories | Tim Bale, Paul Webb | Volume 8 Issue 2 |
