Proposing a novel approach to understanding the contemporary political landscape, Akram
draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Margaret Archer on agency and argues the need …

The book has an introduction outlining the conceptual framework that gives meaning to the
six collected texts that follow. This framework derives from the work of Pierre Bourdieu. He …

In this paper, we will discuss the findings from research which explores the biographical
experience of adults who have been involved in activism1 across their lifetime. The age …

Political parties were at the heart of the traditional narrative of British democracy. But parties
as agents of political mobilisation are in decline. By contrast, membership of political …

Agency has been central to modern conceptions of politics but it is a complicated and
contested idea that seems to have fallen into both theoretical and historical crisis. I explore …

On 16 February 2003, more than half a million people gathered in Sydney, Australia, as part
of a global anti-war protest aimed at stopping the impending invasion of Iraq by the then US …

This article evaluates Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes' interpretive approach to political analysis
by examining their account of social change. Their work is significant because they have …

There is no doubt that the nature of political participation is changing in liberal democracy. At
first, many researchers argued that the main feature of this change was an increase in …

This broad-ranging text examines the big issues about political attitudes, behaviour and
participation in contemporary Britain. Written by a leading expert and drawing on extensive …

This chapter argues that the ways in which individual citizens engage with politics are
changing. It is different to the three previous chapters in this section, as it focuses on …