Place-Based Politics: How Will Local Contexts Shape Voters’ Behaviour in the Next Election?
To request the link to join the seminar via zoom please email leonardo.carella@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
British electoral geography has profoundly changed over the past decades. Place has become central to the language of elections and policy offerings from parties. Political divides have opened up between voters in locations strongly connected to global growth and those that are not. How do place-based factors matter for voting behaviour, and which political attitudes do they operate through? This talk explores the impact on voting choice of contrasting experiences of social and economic change and the emergence of a reinvigorated centre-periphery cleavage — reflected in diverse expressions of bias and resentment — which could influence voters’ retrospective evaluation of the government in power.
Date: 26 January 2024, 15:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Speaker: Gerry Stoker (University of Southampton)
Organising department: Nuffield College
Organisers: Zack Grant (Nuffield College), Leonardo Carella (Nuffield College), Jane Green (Nuffield College)
Organiser contact email address: maxine.collett@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Part of: British Politics Election Year seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Maxine Collett