scholarly journals Disentangling the Brexit vote: The role of economic, social and cultural contexts in explaining the UK’s EU referendum vote

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 1434-1456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Abreu ◽  
Özge Öner
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Composition Effects ◽  
Voter Preferences ◽  
The People ◽  
Continuous Interaction ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Geographical Context

A large number of studies have analysed the role of individual and geographical determinants of voting behaviour in the context of the recent EU referendum in the UK, but several questions remain. A key unresolved issue is the extent of the interaction between individual voter characteristics and the geographical context in which they live, with some of the variance in voter preferences previously attributed to individual characteristics potentially being mediated by the geographical context. Space, and the people who live in it, are in continuous interaction, which requires a careful conceptual and empirical treatment of the issues of composition and sorting. We therefore ask to what extent individuals with very similar individual characteristics voted differently in different places. We use data from the British Election Study, along with a non-parametric matching approach, to analyse whether comparable individuals voted differently in areas with particular economic and cultural characteristics. We find that composition effects account for less than half of the observed constituency-level variation in the vote, while the remaining contextual effects are driven almost entirely by cultural factors.

The New Fundraisers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Original Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Spending Cuts

This book is the first academic study of the profession of fundraising in the UK. Fundraising is an essential yet largely invisible career, despite its growing importance during a period of extensive public spending cuts and growing reliance on charities. There is a growing body of work focused on donors, such that the identity and motivation of those who provide resources are increasingly understood. Yet little is known about the motivation and characteristics of those who ask for voluntary support, despite almost every donation being solicited. As it is not possible to understand charitable giving without accounting for the role of fundraising, this book provides the first empirically-grounded and theorised account of the identity, characteristics and motivation of fundraisers in the UK. Based on original data collected during a 3-year study of over 1,200 fundraisers, the book describes the complexity and subtlety of their everyday practices and makes an argument that the ‘new fundraisers’ have recently emerged in a necessarily complementary relationship with the far more widely discussed phenomenon of the ‘new philanthropists’. As well as a corrective to the lack of meaningful academic interest in this subject, this book is also a response to the growing hostility to fundraising in both the public and political spheres. It provides a better understanding of this important aspect of social life, and challenges the illogical position whereby charities are widely admired, but the people who keep them in business are not.

9. Government and Accountability

Public Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 249-300
Author(s):  
Andrew Le Sueur ◽  
Maurice Sunkin ◽  
Jo Eric Khushal Murkens
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines the people and processes that comprise government in the UK. It considers the constitutional and legal status and role of the monarchy, ministers, civil servants, as well as holders of appointed public offices. It then turns to one of the central features of a good constitution, namely that it provides opportunities for those who exercise public power to be ‘held to account’ or ‘accountable’ for their decisions and conduct.

scholarly journals Expectations, vote choice and opinion stability since the 2016 Brexit referendum

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Grynberg ◽  
Stefanie Walter ◽  
Fabio Wasserfallen
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Over Time

A surprising development in the post-referendum Brexit process has been that vote intentions have remained largely stable, despite the cumbersome withdrawal negotiations. We examine this puzzle by analyzing the role of voters’ expectations about the European Union’s willingness to accommodate the UK after the pro-Brexit vote. Using data from the British Election Study, we explore how these expectations are updated over time, and how they are related to vote intentions. We find that voters who were more optimistic about the European Union’s response were more likely to vote Leave. Over the course of the negotiations, Leavers have become more disillusioned. These adjustments, however, have not translated into shifts in vote intentions. Overall, we find evidence that motivated reasoning is an important driver of public opinion on Brexit.

scholarly journals Immigration, Euroscepticism, and the rise and fall of UKIP

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Evans ◽  
Jonathan Mellon
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This article presents a case study of the emergence of the issue-linkage necessary for a cross-cutting European Union cleavage to become electorally salient. We argue that a key political decision on immigration in 2004 facilitated the emergence of a new dimension of party competition and growth in popular support for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leading eventually to the 2016 EU Referendum. To examine this thesis, we trace the impact of the UK government’s immigration policy on (i) rising immigration, (ii) the political salience of immigration, (iii) the increasing association between concern about immigration and Euroscepticism, and (iv) the emergence of a cross-cutting dimension of party competition coalescing around support for UKIP. The analysis combines information from official immigration rates, media reporting on immigration, Mori polls, continuous monitoring surveys, and the British Election Study.

scholarly journals Who and what is their ‘people’? How British political leaders appealed to the people during the 2019 election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marino De Luca
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The People ◽  
Cohesive Group ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Voice

AbstractIn recent years, many scholars, mainly those focusing on populism, have analysed the role of ‘the people’ in politics. This has allowed us to understand how many political actors emphasize the central position of this term. Today, ‘the people’ has different meanings depending on how politicians use it in specific contexts. In this paper, the reference to ‘the people’ was measured using the following question: How do political leaders use the word ‘people’? The analysis was conducted on Twitter through the study of the accounts of the foremost political leaders in the UK during the 2019 general election campaign. The results highlight three key attitudes related to the use of ‘people’: a direct and immediate relationship between a leader and a wide people; a calling to a specific people, described as a strong and cohesive group; an appropriation of the voice of the people, grouping people without borders into the classic contraposition between a pure people and the corrupt elite.

scholarly journals Political Reactionism as Affective Practice: UKIP Supporters and Non-Voters in Pre-Brexit England

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Brent Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Collective Emotions ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) supporters and non-voters in England participate respectively in forms of engaged and disengaged anti-political activity, but the role of individual, group-based, and collective emotions is still unclear. Drawing upon recent analyses of the complex emotional dynamics (e.g., <em>ressentiment</em>) underpinning the growth of right-wing populist political movements and support for parties such as UKIP, this analysis explores the affective features of reactionary political stances. The framework of affective practices is used to show how resentful affects are created, facilitated, and transformed in sharing or suppressing populist political views and practices; that is, populism is evident not only in the prevalence and influence of illiberal and anti-elite discourses but also should be explored as it is embodied and enacted in “past focused” and “change resistant” everyday actions and in relation to opportunities that “sediment” affect-laden political positions and identities. Reflexive thematic analysis of data from qualitative interviews with UKIP voters and non-voters (who both supported leaving the EU) in 2015 after the UK election but before the EU referendum vote showed that many participants: 1) shared “condensed” complaints about politics and enacted resentment towards politicians who did not listen to them, 2) oriented towards shameful and purportedly shameless racism about migrants, and 3) appeared to struggle with shame and humiliation attributed to the EU in a complex combination of transvaluation of the UK and freedom of movement, a nostalgic need for restoration of national pride, and endorsement of leaving the EU as a form of “change backwards.”

Solving the Radon Problem in the UK: The Role of Environmental Health Officers

1994 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 367-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Remedial Measures ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk

Abstract A major duty of local authorities in the UK is to the wellbeing of local communities. Much of this work is implemented through the Environmental Health Officers. Following a chance finding of radon during a national survey organised by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers, local authorities in the country of Northamptonshire cooperated to identify the extent of the problem and the cause, and to advise impartially on remedial measures. As the level of government closest to the people, local authorities in the county have been able to inform the people and advance the programme more speedily than if left to central government.

scholarly journals The People vs the NHS: Biosexual Citizenship and Hope in Stories of PrEP Activism

Somatechnics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
Charlotte Jones ◽  
Ingrid Young ◽  
Nicola Boydell
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Health System ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

Discourses of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) revel in its radical potential as a global HIV prevention technology, offering a promise of change for the broader landscape of HIV prevention. In 2018, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) aired The People vs The NHS: Who Gets the Drugs?, a documentary focused on the ‘battle’ to make PrEP available in England. In this article we explore how the BBC documentary positions PrEP, PrEP biosexual citizen-activists, as well as the wider role of the NHS in HIV prevention and the wellbeing of communities affected by HIV in the UK. We consider how biosexual citizenship ( Epstein 2018 ) is configured through future imaginaries of hope, and the spectral histories of AIDS activism. We describe how The People crafts a story of PrEP activism in the context of an imagined gay community whose past, present, and hopeful future is entangled within the complexities and contractions of a state-funded health system. Here, PrEP functions as a ‘happiness pointer’ ( Ahmed 2011 ), to orient imagined gay communities towards a hopeful future by demanding and accessing essential medicines and ensuring the absence of needless HIV transmissions. This biomedical success emerges from a shared traumatic past and firmly establishes the salvatory trajectory of PrEP and an imagined gay community who have continued to be affected by HIV. However, campaigns about the individual's right to access PrEP construct the availability and consumption of PrEP as an end goal to their activism, where access to PrEP is understood as an individual's right as a pharmaceutical consumer.

Public Administration in the Islamic World: Considering the Importance of Religion, its Values and Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Daniel Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Salient Region ◽  
The People ◽  
Comparative Public Administration

A small but growing area of public administration scholarship appreciates the influence of religious values on various aspects of government. This appreciation parallels a growing interest in comparative public administration and indigenized forms of government which recognizes the role of culture in different approaches to government. This article is at the crossroads of these two trends while also considering a very salient region, the Islamic world. The Islamic world is uniquely religious, which makes this discussion even more relevant, as the nations that represent them strive towards legitimacy and stability. The history and core values of Islam need to be considered as they pertain to systems of government that are widely accepted by the people. In essence, this is being done in many countries across the Islamic world, providing fertile grounds for public administration research from a comparative perspective. This paper explores these possibilities for future research on this topic.

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