Popular Understandings of Politics in Britain, 1937-2015

Monthly Archives: October 2014

Report of Initial Workshop

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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 […]

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Political disaffection is not new, but it is rising and driving UKIP support.

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Tweet To mark the project’s official launch, and the 70th anniversary of a Gallup poll in July 1944 that asked: ā€œDo 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 […]

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