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Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ghosts of West European communism live on (2019)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2019). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ghosts of West European communism live on

Germany marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 2019. This article argues that alongside the sweeping changes that occurred in central and eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War also had a lasting legacy for western... Read More about Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ghosts of West European communism live on.

Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless (2019)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2019). Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless

By calling an early election, government and parliament have effectively breached both the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. The implications of this outcome are significant and suggest that the act is unlikely to survive another l... Read More about Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless.

Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics (2019)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2019). Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics

The UK was once viewed by political scientists as embodying a distinct majoritarian form of politics – the ‘Westminster Model’ – that stood in contrast to the ‘consensus’ democracies found elsewhere in Europe. Several of the countries in the latter g... Read More about Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics.