Screen LibraryThe Greens in British Politics : Protest, Anti-Austerity and the Divided Left /
This book explains how the Greens went from obscurity to England s third largest party in just one year, quadrupling their vote share and securing their place in Britain s refigured party system on the way. Sophisticated quantitative analyses of the Greens voters and members as well as interviews wi...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42673-0 |
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This book explains how the Greens went from obscurity to England s third largest party in just one year, quadrupling their vote share and securing their place in Britain s refigured party system on the way. Sophisticated quantitative analyses of the Greens voters and members as well as interviews with all of the leading party insiders are used to explain how internal dynamics, changing political opportunities and a forgotten portion of the electorate resulted in an unprecedented Green Surge that defied decades of British party membership decline and a lack of historic far left electoral succ |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(x,151pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319426730 |
| Index Number: | JN101 |
| CLC: | D756.164 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements -- 1. The Rise of the Greens in British Politics -- 2. Usual Low in an Improving Context -- 3. Green Spike : European Elections to Independence Referendum -- 4. Green Surge : Becoming England s Third Largest Party -- 5. Car Crashes, Campaigning and Partial Decline -- 6. Who Voted Green and Why? -- 7. Explaining Constituency-Level Green Success -- 8. Conclusion: Protest, Anti-Austerity and the Divided Left -- Appendices -- Bibliography. |