Author: Donley T. Studlar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349175757
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Dennis Kavanagh
Publisher: London ; Beverly Hills : Sage Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Jonathan Wheatley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030039404
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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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.

Author: David Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: David Butler
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349020486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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Author: David Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cabinet system
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: P. John
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230390404
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds new light on key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour.

Author: Dennis Kavanagh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198278603
Category : Grande-Bretagne - Politique et gouvernement - 1979-1990
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This comprehensive and newly-revised text surveys not only such familiar topics as the Cabinet, Parliament, parties, pressure groups, and local government but also such often neglected issues as political culture, corporatism, the police and judiciary, the mass media, political recruitment and political style, and economic decline.

Author: Geoff Horn
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526110822
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events surrounding Prentice's transition from a front-line Labour politician to a Conservative minister in the first Thatcher government. It focuses on the shifting political climate in Britain during the 1970s, as the post-war settlement came under pressure from adverse economic conditions, militant trade unionism and an assertive New Left. Prentice's story provides an important case study on the crisis that afflicted social democracy, highlighting Labour's left-right divide and the possibility of a realignment of British politics. This study will be invaluable to anyone interested in the turbulent and transitional nature of British politics during a watershed period.

Author: John McCormick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134060017
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century. He tells the story of the absolute change in political climate over the last ten years and deciphers the nature of Thatcher's ''conversion'' to greenery. He explains why everyone who cared about the environment became embattled and, above all, how the old methods of sensible compromise were banished, probably for ever, not least because of the government's obsession with secrecy. What, then, are the new political means of compelling change on a reluctant parliament? Everything is at stake from welfare to water, from forests to fishing. Where are we now? What are the likely pressures, both internal and from Europe and the rest of the world, to make Britain pass more environmentally sound laws and, perhaps more importantly, to observe them? McCormick provides a gripping picture of the central issues, of the system and of the battleground. Originally published in 1991