Category Archives: anti-politics
Evidence of Anti-Politics in Britain?
January 28, 2015
Tweet Today, Gerry Stoker presented evidence of anti-politics in Britain at the Westminster Conversation. He went on to discuss the electoral and policy impacts of public disengagement from formal politics. Click here for slides from Gerry’s Presentation.
The Impact of Anti-politics on the UK General Election 2015
January 20, 2015
Tweet In a Public Policy @ Southampton briefing in Westminster yesterday, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker presented evidence and analysis on the phenomenon of anti-politics and its likely impact on the 2015 General Election. The āanti-politicsā phenomenon is complex but is reflected in negative attitudes towards mainstream politics and political parties among citizens. Click here […]
EVENT: The Impact of Anti-politics on the UK General Election 2015, 19 January 2015, 7 Millbank, London
January 9, 2015
Tweet In this session Professors Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker will present evidence and analysis on the phenomenon of anti-politics and its likely impact on the 2015 General Election. The āanti-politicsā phenomenon is complex but is reflected in negative attitudes towards mainstream politics and political parties among citizens. Those attitudes present an opportunity for some […]
Call For Papers
January 7, 2015
Tweet Conference: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Exeter, 1-4 Sept 2015 Session: Geographies of Politics and Anti-Politics Convenors: Nick Clarke, University of Southampton, n.clarke@soton.ac.uk; Jonathan Moss, University of Southampton, j.t.moss@soton.ac.uk Sponsor: The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) These are interesting times for Politics with a capital P. In the UK, voter turnout is in decline, with […]
Public Event: āReinvigorating Democracy ā learning from the past and looking to the futureā, 8 January 2015
January 7, 2015
Tweet This Thursday, Gerry Stoker and Will Jennings will be speaking about the state of democracy in Britain at a public event at Southampton City Council Chambers. Click here for further details.
Citizens may have never been enchanted with politics, but change and decline in public attitudes are observable.
November 24, 2014
Tweet Last week, Gerry Stoker presented two papers that introduced a framework of analysis for developing a better understanding of public disengagement with formal politics in contemporary democracies. Speaking at UCL, Gerry pointed out that whilst citizens may have never been enchanted with politics, new insights from research showed observable change and decline in public […]
Report of Initial Workshop
October 31, 2014
Tweet The purpose of this workshop was to introduce the project and to invite comments from participants to help guide our research over the forthcoming months. The workshop revealed an interdisciplinary concern with popular understandings of politics by bringing together political scientists, geographers, pollsters and historians In his introduction, Gerry Stoker asked participants to share […]
Political disaffection is not new, but it is rising and driving UKIP support.
October 29, 2014
Tweet To mark the project’s official launch, and the 70th anniversary of a Gallup poll in July 1944 that asked: āDo you think that British politicians are out merely for themselves, for their party, or to do their best for their country?ā, YouGov carried out a survey for us asking precisely the same question as […]