Monthly Archives: October 2014
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 […]
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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: “Do you think that British politicians are out merely for themselves, for their party, or to do their best for their country?”, YouGov carried out a survey for us asking precisely the same question as […]
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