Popular Understandings of Politics in Britain, 1937-2015

Popular Understandings of Politics in Britain, 1937-2015

‘Popular Understandings of Politics in Britain’ is a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and based at the University of Southampton with team members in Geography and Politics. It is scheduled to run from October 2014 to March 2016. In a context of apparently recent disenchantment and disengagement from politicians, political parties, and elections in Britain, this project aims to understand better what and how British citizens have thought about formal politics since the late 1930s.

The Good Politician reviewed by Peter Allen

By Nicholas Clarke |

Tweet The Good Politician is reviewed  by Peter Allen in LSE Review of Books here. The review provides a nice summary of the argument and contributes some important reflections on the book and its place within Political Studies. Here is how the review finishes: ‘Anyone interested in the future of representative political systems in Britain […]

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The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics

By Nicholas Clarke |

Tweet Today, our new book is published by Cambridge University Press (see www.cambridge.org/9781108459815). Here is the blurb from the back cover: Surveys show a lack of trust in political actors and institutions across much of the democratic world. Populist politicians and parties attempt to capitalise on this political disaffection. Commentators worry about our current ‘age […]

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The Good Politician

By Nicholas Clarke |

Tweet We’ve just signed the contract for a book with Cambridge University Press. The title is ‘The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics’. We’re hoping the book will be available from May/June 2018. It will cover: the phenomenon and conceptualisation of anti-politics; why anti-politics matters; the historical development of anti-political sentiment […]

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The decline in diffuse support for national politics

By Nicholas Clarke |

Tweet We’ve just published the following paper in Public Opinion Quarterly: ‘The decline in diffuse support for national politics: The long view on political discontent in Britain‘. Here is the abstract: This research note considers how to track long-term trajectories of political discontent in Britain. Many accounts are confined to using either survey data drawn […]

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