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Public Policy Research

Public Policy Research (PPR) is ippr's quarterly, subscription-based journal, edited by ippr and published by Wiley-Blackwell. It features policy-relevant and politically savvy essays about the major issues in the news and those rising up the political agenda, and includes original research and analysis. It publishes the finest international writers and thinkers, including academics, practitioners, and politicians, to provide a platform for topical, intellectual and evidence-based debate. By placing policy issues in a global context, it reaches beyond Westminster and the UK.

From the Wiley website, you can subscribe, purchase individual articles, and purchase single issues of the journal. You can also view contents of back issues.

The journal is co-edited by Georgina Kyriacou, Guy Lodge, and Andrew Pendleton. For submission and editorial details - or to suggest a response to a published piece - please contact g.kyriacou@ippr.org.

Current issue - Volume 17 Issue 1

How Labour lost: Wrong policies or poor delivery?
Examining the waxing and waning of public opinion over the past decade, John Curtice provides an early analysis of why Labour lost so badly in 2010’s general election. Was the dominant factor the party’s ideological positioning or the public’s loss of faith in its ability to govern?

What kind of renewal? How Labour can rebuild
If the Labour Party is to limit its time in opposition to the next five years, it must be clear about what went wrong and rebuild its vision, movement, and policy platform. Will Straw analyses the party’s defeat and considers what shape its renewal should take.

Coalition: A new era in British politics
Rick Muir assesses what the first peace-time coalition government since the 1930s could mean for Britain.
With a box-out: The Liberal Democrats’ journey into government by Kate Parminter and Neil Sherlock

How will history judge Gordon Brown?
Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge chart a tale of five movements in the course of Brown’s premiership.

The centre of central government
Andrew Blick and George Jones examine the recent surge of interest in the structure and functioning of the ‘centre of central government’ in the United Kingdom – Number 10, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury. They ask if it is fit for purpose and make recommendations for its future.

Phasing out hedge funds
The hedge fund is essentially an unregulated fund for millionaires; European financial regulators should persuade their American counterparts to phase them out, argues John Chapman

Why do childcare markets fail? Comparing England and the Netherlands
In the last 10 years governments in England and the Netherlands have vigorously encouraged the growth of childcare markets but the very concept of a childcare market is problematic, contend Eva Lloyd and Helen Penn

‘Circular migration’ and the potential to improve health outcomes
The UK has the potential to strengthen and stabilise longer-term staffing for the National Health Service while observing and building on its commitments to recruit ethically, in ways that would not adversely affect health outcomes in the sending countries. However, to do so requires a new approach, explains Andrew Lawrence.

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