Author Archives: Nicholas Clarke
The Good Politician reviewed by Peter Allen
August 13, 2018
Tweet The Good Politician is reviewed by Peter Allen in LSE Review of Books here. The review provides a nice summary of the argument and contributes some important reflections on the book and its place within Political Studies. Here is how the review finishes: ‘Anyone interested in the future of representative political systems in Britain […]
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The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics
April 26, 2018
Tweet Today, our new book is published by Cambridge University Press (see www.cambridge.org/9781108459815). Here is the blurb from the back cover: Surveys show a lack of trust in political actors and institutions across much of the democratic world. Populist politicians and parties attempt to capitalise on this political disaffection. Commentators worry about our current ‘age […]
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The Good Politician
August 7, 2017
Tweet We’ve just signed the contract for a book with Cambridge University Press. The title is ‘The Good Politician: Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics’. We’re hoping the book will be available from May/June 2018. It will cover: the phenomenon and conceptualisation of anti-politics; why anti-politics matters; the historical development of anti-political sentiment […]
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The decline in diffuse support for national politics
June 7, 2017
Tweet We’ve just published the following paper in Public Opinion Quarterly: ‘The decline in diffuse support for national politics: The long view on political discontent in Britain‘. Here is the abstract: This research note considers how to track long-term trajectories of political discontent in Britain. Many accounts are confined to using either survey data drawn […]
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Changing spaces of political encounter and the rise of anti-politics
November 3, 2016
Tweet We’ve just published the following paper in Political Geography: ‘Changing spaces of political encounter and the rise of anti-politics: Evidence from Mass Observation’s General Election diaries‘. Here is the abstract: Negativity towards the institutions of formal politics is currently a concern across much of the democratic world. It is generally agreed that such negativity […]
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