Description
Book SynopsisThe British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant. Drawing upon cutting-edge research and wide-ranging elite interviews, the new author team provides a compelling and accessible narrative of this landmark election and its implications for British politics, built on unparalleled access to all the key players, and married up to first-class data analysis. The 21st volume in a prestigious series dating back to 1945, it offers something for everyone from Westminster insiders and politics students to the interested general reader.
Table of ContentsPart 1: The 2017-19 Parliament
Chapter 1: The Calling of the Election – (guest author Philip Cowley)
Chapter 2: The Long Goodbye: Brexit – (guest authors Anand Menon and Alan Wager)
Chapter 3: From May to Johnson: The Conservatives
Chapter 4: The Man Who Wasn’t There: Labour
Chapter 5: A New Hope? The Liberal Democrats and others
Chapter 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Politics in the Devolved Nations (guest authors Ailsa Henderson, Roger Scully and Jon Tonge)
Part 2: The Election Campaign
Chapter 7: “Get Brexit Done”: The national campaign
Chapter 8: The Red Wall Falls
Chapter 9: Redemption? The Polls
Chapter 10: The Air War: Broadcasting
Chapter 11: Enduring Brands : The Press (guest authors David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring)
Chapter 12: All change? MPs and candidates (Guest authors: Rosie Campbell, Jennifer VanHeerde-Hudson and Chris Butler)
Part 3: The Results
Chapter 13: The British voter in 2019: an individual level analysis
Chapter 14: The outcome in the constituencies: an aggregate analysis (guest authors John Curtice, Stephen Fisher and Patrick English)
Chapter 15: The Election in Retrospect
Appendix 1: The Results Analysed (guest authors John Curtice, Stephen Fisher and Patrick English)
Appendix 2: The Voting Statistics
