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 for the mainstream parties.
Anti-politics: a supply problem, not an engagement problem | Generational divide when ‘doing politics’ vanishes on need to fix it
Two Polarities of Anti-Politics
February 25, 2015
Anti-politics: a supply problem, not an engagement problem | Generational divide when ‘doing politics’ vanishes on need to fix it