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The End of British Party Politics? (Paperback)
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The End of British Party Politics? (Paperback)
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List price R390
Loot Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
You Save R102 (26%)
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Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But
voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with
fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of
political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a
genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred,
and why it matters. Electoral choices across Britain became
increasingly differentiated along national lines over much of the
last half-century. In 2017, for the second general election in a
row, four different parties came first in the UK's four nations. UK
voters are increasingly faced with general election campaigns that
are largely disconnected from each other. At the same time, voters
acquire much of their information about the election from
news-media based in London that display little understanding of
these national distinctions. The UK continues to elect
representatives to a single parliament. But the shared debates and
sets of choices that tie a political community together are
increasingly absent. Separate national political arenas and agendas
still have to interact but in some respects the House of Commons
increasingly resembles the European Parliament - whose members are
democratically chosen but from a disconnected series of separate
national electoral contests. This is deeply problematic for the
long-term unity and integrity of the UK.
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