The Changing Shape of Politics (eBook)

Rethinking Left and Right in a New Britain

Jonathan Wheatley (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2019
X, 173 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-03940-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by 'left versus right' issues of wealth distribution. Drawing from a number of opinion surveys, it explores the shifting positions of voters on both economic matters and matters of culture and identity. It finds that between 2015 and 2017 support for Britain's main political parties became much more predicated on issues of culture and identity, reflecting a radical change in how parties attract voters. In the longer-term, it suggests that issues of culture and identity have become more salient overall, possibly because of the oft-cited divide between winners and losers of globalisation. The book ends by speculating on why politics has become more polarised on these issues, rather than on the economic fallout of globalisation, and suggests that an explanation is to be found in changing forms of political communication between voters and politicians.

Jonathan Wheatley is a lecturer in Comparative Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published widely on democratization in post-communist countries; parties, party systems and political cleavages in both established and developing democracies; and the development and deployment of voting advice applications (VAAs).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: British politics in turbulent timesChapter 2: Beyond left and right: The end of an old order?Chapter 3: Patterns of Political CompetitionChapter 4: Towards a more Polarised Britain?Chapter 5: The European PerspectiveChapter 6: Conclusion. Making sense of it allAppendix1: Analysis of British Election Study (BES) dataAppendix 2: European Political partiesAppendix 3: Cleaning and Preprocessing VAA-Generated DataAppendix 4: Mokken Scale AnalysisAppendix 5: Regression Results

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: X, 173 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: British politics • class voting • Cleavages • Elections • Electoral Systems • EU Referendum • European political parties • hegemonic order • identifying dimensions • ideological dimensions • Immigration • mapping party voters • mokken scale analysis • Polarisation • populist right parties • Scotland • Scottish independence referendum • Survey Data • TAN/GAL • Vote choice • "winners" and "losers" of globalisation
• ISBN-10: 3-030-03940-4 / 3030039404
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-03940-0 / 9783030039400