In this session Professors Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker will present evidence and analysis on the phenomenon of anti-politics and its likely impact on the 2015 General Election. The âanti-politicsâ phenomenon is complex but is reflected in negative attitudes towards mainstream politics and political parties among citizens. Those attitudes present …
Conference: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Exeter, 1-4 Sept 2015 Session: Geographies of Politics and Anti-Politics Convenors: Nick Clarke, University of Southampton, n.clarke@soton.ac.uk; Jonathan Moss, University of Southampton, j.t.moss@soton.ac.uk Sponsor: The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) These are interesting times for Politics with a capital P. In the UK, voter turnout …
This Thursday, Gerry Stoker and Will Jennings will be speaking about the state of democracy in Britain at a public event at Southampton City Council Chambers. Click here for further details.
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 …
The purpose of this workshop was to introduce the project and to invite comments from participants to help guide our research over the forthcoming months. The workshop revealed an interdisciplinary concern with popular understandings of politics by bringing together political scientists, geographers, pollsters and historians In his introduction, Gerry Stoker …
To mark the project’s official launch, and the 70th anniversary of a Gallup poll in July 1944 that asked: âDo you think that British politicians are out merely for themselves, for their party, or to do their best for their country?â, YouGov carried out a survey for us asking precisely …