{"product_id":"breaking-the-deadlock-britain-at-the-polls-2019-9781526162786","title":"Breaking the Deadlock: Britain at the Polls, 2019","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 2016, Members of Parliament had struggled to reconcile a contested exercise in direct democracy with the established institutions of representative government. The 2017 election was meant to bring closure to Brexit. It did not: its indecisive outcome merely exacerbated the challenges. Parliament, the courts and ultimately the Monarch herself became embroiled in the chaos of Brexit. The scale of the Conservatives’ definitive victory in December 2020 was therefore a significant departure and a return to the status quo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Providing an essential and accessible guide, a stellar group of scholars in this volume...explain the campaign, analyse the results, and consider their meaning.’ \u003cbr\u003ePippa Norris, Harvard University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The volume at hand caps a trio of British elections, ending in the Conservative breaking of the Brexit deadlock. These distinguished electoral scholars take the reader down all sorts of lively paths.’ \u003cbr\u003eMichael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Readers outside the UK who want to keep up with British politics will find \u003ci\u003eBreaking the deadlock\u003c\/i\u003e an ideal one-volume fount of insight into the historic 2019 election.’ \u003cbr\u003eJack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1 Deadlock: minority government and Brexit – Nicholas Allen\u003cbr\u003e2 The Conservative Party: the victory of the Eurosceptics – Thomas Quinn\u003cbr\u003e3 The Labour Party: leadership lacking – Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Harold D. Clarke\u003cbr\u003e4 The two-party system: ‘all else is embellishment and detail’ – John Bartle\u003cbr\u003e5 A changing electorate: new identities and the British ‘culture war’ – Maria Sobolewska\u003cbr\u003e6 Why did the Conservatives win? – Robert Johns\u003cbr\u003e7 2019: A critical election? – Jane Green\u003cbr\u003e8 Comparative perspectives – Sarah Birch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Results of British general elections, 1945–2019\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041028440407,"sku":"9781526162786","price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/breaking-the-deadlock-britain-at-the-polls-2019-9781526162786","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}