Britain votes 2017 /
Britain Votes 2017 offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the most extraordinary elections ever, with an outcome few predicted. It contains dedicated chapters on the results, the fortunes of each the major parties, the campaign and outcomes in each country of the United Kingdom, the Brexit contex...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Hansard Society series in politics and government.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The mislaying of a majority / Jonathan Tonge, Cristina Leston-Bandeira and Stuart Wilks-Heeg
- The results: how Britain voted / David Denver
- How the electoral system failed to deliver
- again / John Curtice
- 'We didn't see it coming': The Conservatives / Tim Bale and Paul Webb
- 'Jez we can!': Labour's campaign: defeat with a taste of victory / Eunice Goes
- The Liberal Democrats: green shoots of recovery or Still on life support? / David Cutts and Andrew Russell
- The rug pulled from under them: UKIP and the Greens / James Dennison
- Referendums as critical junctures? Scottish voting in British elections / Ailsa Henderson and James Mitchell
- The election in Wales: campaign and party performance / Jonathan Bradbury
- Northern Ireland: doubletriumph for the Democratic Unionist Party / Jonathan Tonge and Jocelyn Evans
- The Brexit context / Sara Hagemann
- Party finance / Justin Fisher
- Digital campaigning: the rise of Facebook and satellite campaigns / Katharine Dommett and Luke Temple
- Out with the old, In with the new? The media campaign / Stephen Ward and Dominic Wring
- The (anti-)politics of the election: funnelling frustration in a divided democracy / Matthew Flinders
- More stable than strong: womens representation, voters and issues / Emily Harmer and Rosalynd Southern
- Young voters / Sarah Harrison
- Conclusion: An election that satisfied few and solved little / Jonathan Tonge, Cristina Leston-Bandeira and Stuart Wilks-Heeg.