The British General Election of 2017

The British General Election of 2017 is the definitive and authoritative account of one of the most dramatic elections in British history. Throwing aside her natural caution, Theresa May called a snap election and was widely expected to crush Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. Her gamble backfired s...

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1. Verfasser: Cowley, Philip (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319959368
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Not Going Entirely to Plan
  • 2. Brexit; Jack Glynn and Anand Menon
  • 3. From Stockbroker's Son to Vicar's Daughter. The Conservatives
  • 4. From Miliband to Corbyn. Labour
  • 5. Liberal Democrats and Others
  • 6. Still Different, Only Slightly Less So: Scotland; Gerry Hassan
  • 7. Towards a Landslide
  • 8. Everything Changes; with Wes Ball
  • 9. Horrors and Hopes
  • 10. Election Night and Its Aftermath
  • 11. Wrong Footed Again: The Polls
  • 12. Targeted (and Untargeted) Campaigning
  • 13.Campaign Coverage and Editorial Judgements: Broadcasting; Stephen Cushion and Charlie Beckett
  • 14 . A Bad Press: Newspapers; David Deacon and Dominic Wring
  • 15. Political recruitment under pressure: MPs and Candidates; Rosie Campbell and Jennifer Hudson
  • 16. The Election in Retrospect
  • Appendix 1: The Results Analysed; John Curtice, Stephen Fisher, Robert Ford and Patrick English
  • Appendix 2: The Voting Statistics
  • Appendix 3: Select Political Chronology 2015-17.