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Owen Parker

Associate Fellow, SPERI, & Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield

Book Review: Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone

No scholar has done more than Vivien Schmidt to illuminate the contemporary European Union’s democratic and legitimacy deficits. Her previous work pointed to the reality of what—in a typically pithy […]

Covid 19 and the EU: crisis too far or transformative moment?

Will the covid-19 pandemic prompt the EU to take the decisive integrative steps that it failed to take in the context of the Eurozone crisis?

Post election reflections on the Labour Party: Part 2

Whatever the future holds Labour should beware both the New and the Blue

Post-election reflections on the Labour Party

In this post-election blog, Owen Parker argues that whatever the future holds- Labour should beware both the ‘New’ and the ‘Blue’.

Book review: Race and the Undeserving Poor

Robbie Shilliam’s brilliant book highlights the historical importance of race in social and welfare policy in Britain and in so […]

Book review: Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley’s new book provides a nuanced picture of why people voted as they […]

The Labour Party’s free movement dilemma

There are good pragmatic and principled reasons for the Labour Party to reverse its opposition to the free movement of […]

The political economy of the White Paper on The Future of Europe: Part Two

The Commission’s White Paper understates both the depth of the crisis associated with the EU status quo and what needs […]

The political economy of the White Paper on the Future of Europe: Part One

The Commission’s new White Paper offers some interesting post-Brexit scenarios for ‘the future of Europe’, but realising any of these […]

Brexit and the left: heading deeper into the void?

The support in traditional Labour party heartlands for leaving the EU should serve as a wake up call for the […]

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