Professor Toby James

📢What is the relationship between democracy, public administration and democratic backsliding?

In this new article, I argue that the answer depends on the concept of democracy that is used....

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🌎Special issue page:
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Call for papers

The Governance of Football: Policy, Politics and Possibilities

Special Issue @PolicyStudiesTF

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What was the quality of elections in Venezuela?

The answers are on the Electoral Integrity Project website:

electoralintegrityproject.com/the-world-of-e…

Some criteria for assessing political leaders....

In the recently revised books on political leadership, we emphasise how good leadership needs to be conducted within the boundaries of democracy...

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By which benchmarks should we assess political leaders? How are Starmer, Badenoch and Farage performing, and why?

Watch our expert book launch from this week, including: Charles Clarke, Tim Bale, Patrick Diamond and Emmanuel Avril

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