书目名称 | The Devolution Gambit |
副标题 | Political Territoria |
编辑 | Tim Niendorf |
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概述 | Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the long-term development trends of the British party competition.Presents an in-depth electoral analysis with data from 1950 until today.Examines new |
丛书名称 | Springer Series in Electoral Politics |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .Thisbook examines the increasing territorialisation of party competitionand the relaxation of unitarian rule through devolution, presenting a long-term analysis of electoraldevelopments in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second WorldWar. .Subsequently,the book looks into the undermining of the traditional majoritarianmode of British government as a result. It analyzes the significant role of these long-termdevelopments and their detrimental effect on the parliament’s ability toresolve issues like the Scottish Independence Referendum or the UK’svote to leave the European Union, and it addresses their underlying causes. The author additionally reconnects theseelectoral developments to the changing nature of devolution and showshow the deepening of devolution accelerates the negative electoralconsequences for the British system of government. Finally, the book shows why the British Labour Party is turning more and moreinto a long-term minority party as a result of these developments. .Thebook is a must-read for scholars, students and policy-makers,interested in a better understanding of comparative politics and devolution in general, as well as in themore specific case of the |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Party competition; Elections; Federalism; Political Parties; British politics; Political geography; Consti |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72523-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-72525-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-72523-5Series ISSN 2524-8103 Series E-ISSN 2524-8111 |
issn_series | 2524-8103 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |