How the text message is transforming our democracies.

The underlying reason for the West’s democratic crisis may be a lost sense of open-ended time.

Table of contents for European Journal of Social Theory, 27, 2, May 01, 2024

This volume examines what the concept of ideology can add to our understanding of the European Union, and the way in which the process of European integration has inflected the ideological battles...

The making of modern authority centred on efforts to formalise and de-personalise power, and transnational orders such as the European Union have often been vie...

Crisis management only blurs ever more the boundary between politics and technical expertise.

This volume examines what the concept of ideology can add to our understanding of the European Union, and the way in which the process of European integration has inflected the ideological battles...

This article explores the relationship between ideology, the state and the transnational as it bears on European integration. Though typically studied in national contexts, ideologies and their cla...

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Du sauvetage de la zone euro à l'adoption du plan de relance, la gestion de crise domine la politique européenne depuis deux décennies et transforme profondément l’Union. Dans son livre, Politics of...

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We are living in the midst of the greatest public health crisis of our time.Confronting the many challenges of this moment—from the medical to the economic, the social to the political—demands all...

Being on-call, out-of-sync and underslept is not just personal but a pervasive political injustice. Bold change is needed

For much of its history, the EU has been portrayed as an attempt to move beyond the ideological divisions present at the national level. Yet in recent decades, European integration has increasingly…

This piece outlines the concept of emergency politics as it may be applied to EU politics, distinguishing it from more familiar terms such as crisis management. We define emergency politics as a mo...

In an age of grand coalitions, and widespread dissatisfaction with them, it is clear that one of the major challenges for contemporary parties is to pursue power without sacrificing the principles ...

Jonathan White's In The Long Run explores the place of future thinking in various political events and ideologies throughout history.

L’Europe ne se fera pas dans les crises. Les changements institutionnels — parfois significatifs — qui ont eu lieu ces dernières années relèvent tous d’une dangereuse politique de l’urgence qui...

The description of the EU as a faceless bureaucracy has long been used pejoratively, but it has its advantages.

Democracies may be devastated by emergency governance, but crises are also moments of collective learning, says the author of "Politics of Last Resort".

The Ethics of Political Alliance - Volume 48 Issue 3

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Abstract. Exceptional times call for exceptional measures—this formula is all too familiar in the domestic setting. Governments have often played loose wit

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Attend a free lecture at the London School of Economics hosted by the European Institute and the Department of Government on 'The Other Neoliberalism'.

Until the 1980s, many European social democratic parties had reservations about the project of European integration. But what exactly is the status of Euroscepticism within the broader ideology of ...

Join us for a new kind of online reading group discussing the political future of technology. At each meetup, the group decides which text

How official instant messaging can be made accessible is a big question. Whether it is compatible with democracy is a bigger one.

The Ethics of Political Alliance - Volume 48 Issue 3

A new kind of online reading group about politics and technology. At each meetup, the group reads a text, then decides what to read next.

A lecture as part of LSE Festival: New World DisOrders on identity in the age of populism.

By proroguing Parliament, the government may be trying to teach the public that liberal democracy is a charade and that playing dirty is how politics must go, writes Jonathan White. He explains how…

In an age of grand coalitions, and widespread dissatisfaction with them, it is clear that one of the major challenges for contemporary parties is to pursue power without sacrificing the principles ...

Thursday’s vote has been billed as an irreversible referendum on our future. But that’s not how democracy is supposed to work, says academic Jonathan White

Over the last decade especially, European authorities have successively invoked exceptional measures in the name of exceptional circumstances. This improvised mode of emergency response raises...

Boris Johnson is using the act of leaving the EU as a vehicle for his goal – showing the impotence of his adversaries, says the academic Jonathan White

Despite being largely overlooked in the literature, Israel provides a rare example of what a full decade of twenty-first century populism in power looks like. Based on an examination of rhetoric an...

Boris Johnson is using the act of leaving the EU as a vehicle for his goal – showing the impotence of his adversaries, says the academic Jonathan White

Are you getting good sleep? Bad sleep? No sleep? It's one of society's biggest divides right now, and COVID-19 has only made it starker. Of course, the night shift has always been with us, but new...

Table of contents for Political Theory, 47, 1, Feb 01, 2019

In the wake of the Euro crisis, the mission statement on the European Central Bank's (ECB) website was changed from ‘Our mission is to serve Europe's citizens’ to ‘Our mission is to serve the people...

Pluralist norms, which prescribe certain attitudes of openness and mutual respect for diverging views, have long been considered a central pillar of liberal dem...

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Jonathan White explains why analogies associated with public health tend to be used in areas unrelated to the latter, such as the economy and migration. He writes that such perspectives can often b…

Over the last decade especially, European authorities have successively invoked exceptional measures in the name of exceptional circumstances. This improvised mode of emergency response raises...

Technology & Power: Different Class March 2024

The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka, and the Croatian Society for Analytic...

Special Issue: Ideologies and the European Union, Edited by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti and Jonathan White. Volume 27, Issue 9 of Journal of European Public Policy

Ever since Theresa May triggered Article 50, 29 March keeps being portrayed as Brexit day. This continues to be the case, even though it is highly likely that an extension will be requested. Jonath…

This article explores the ways cosmopolitanism, federalism and constitutionalism have evolved in Europe from core philosophical concepts to political programmes, and ultimately ‘ideological benchma...

The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social...

White, profesor de la London School of Economics y uno de los grandes teóricos de la ciencia política, acaba de publicar 'In the long run: The Future as a Political Idea' (Profile Books, 2024), en el...

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists...

This working paper examines the potential of climate change to be drawn into populist politics.