Monthly Archives: November 2014
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 […]
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Anti-politics: It’s not the economy, stupid; it’s you
November 20, 2014
Tweet In a blog for Public Policy Network, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker have argued that the rise of anti-politics in the present is not just a symptom of a political failure on economics, but citizens’ sense of being failed by a political class that lacks the competence and strength of character to follow the […]
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Contemporary concern with anti-politics
November 7, 2014
Tweet Last week’s YouGov poll and official launch of the project stimulated discussion about the impact of public disengagement with formal politics in the present. The poll’s results were included in The Independent’s daily catch-up, whilst Nick Cohen suggested in The Spectator that our early research indicates the difficulty of the task that faces the […]
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