University of Southampton

Tweet This Wednesday, Will Jennings will be speaking about the long-term decline of political trust and engagement in Britain at a Policy Network event that addresses the impact of populism upon British democracy. Click here for further information.

Tweet Nick Clarke has written a short piece about the geographies of politics and anti-politics. It was written as a ‘critical review’ commissioned by Geoforum for the General Election on the discipline of Geography and the research problem of anti-politics. It is accompanied by two ‘debate’ pieces from Jane Wills and David Featherstone. Click here […]

Tweet A highlights video of the Rebellion or Re-engagement PSA Symposium held at the University of Nottingham in April, where Gerry Stoker presented a paper entitled: How do citizens think about politics and how to reform the political system. Click here for slides.

Tweet Our first working paper is available to download. This working paper was presented by Nick Clarke at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Warsaw in April 2015. The paper outlines the research project and reports some initial findings, with a particular focus on qualitative data from 1945 found in the Mass Observation archive.

Tweet Click Here for a new blog post about the relationship between anti-politics and depoliticisation written for the Political Studies Association.

Tweet Click Here for an article that addresses the inter-relationships between anti-politics and depolticisation written for the Political Studies Association.

Tweet Gerry Stoker, Mark Evans and Max Halupka examine how younger generations are engaging with democratic politics by comparison with older generations in Australia, at The Conversation. The findings of their survey work and analysis challenge negative stereotypes and give grounds for optimism. They show that within the younger generations are citizens with the enthusiasm […]

Tweet In this post for the LSE General Election 2015 blog, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker argue that voters supporting the two main anti-politics parties in the 2015 general election have policy preferences that are polar opposites. Because of this, they suggest that trying to be friends with both Ukip and Green supporters won’t work […]

Tweet [Cross posted at Policy Network] Only when politics changes and the behaviour of politicians becomes more focused on ‘doing the right thing’ will citizens be prepared to engage The reform plans for the UK parliament captured in the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy deserve the accolade afforded to the British Leyland’s Austin Allegro by […]

Tweet Will Jennings will be speaking about anti-politics at a Westminster Abbey current research seminar on 9 February 2015. Click here for more information.