| ID | 156796 |
| Title Proper | New politics of class after the 2017 general election |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tilley, James ; James Tilley, |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The first thing to do is, of course, thank the four authors for all of their thoughts on the New Politics of Class (from now on NPC). In this response, we want to both address some of the issues that they raise, but also reflect a little on our findings and conclusion in the light of the 2017 general election. Before doing either of these, it is perhaps worth setting out the main argument of the book, which focuses on three main claims about British politics since 1945. First, ideological divisions among people due to occupational class and education have been fairly constant over the last seventy years. Second, parties have changed, and this change was a one-off shock to the system in the 1990s with the emergence of New Labour. And third, this combination of voter continuity and party change resulted in a large decline in class voting for the main parties in the 1990s and a delayed, but equally large, increase in class non-voting in the 2000s. |
| `In' analytical Note |
Political Quarterly Vol. 88, No.4; Oct-Dec 2017: p.710–715 |
| Journal Source | Political Quarterly 2017-12 88, 4 |
| Key Words | New Politics of Class ; 2017 General Election |