The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain
<p>This thesis assesses developments in political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain in the context of a changing and more volatile electorate. Using British Election Study data from 2014-2021, it contains four papers addressing different elements of changing political attitudes...
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| author | Macfarlane, E |
| author2 | Fisher, S |
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| description | <p>This thesis assesses developments in political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain in the context of a changing and more volatile electorate. Using British Election Study data from 2014-2021, it contains four papers addressing different elements of changing political attitudes and identities over a period of turbulent politics. The thesis examines how identities are formed and the consequences of identities for the perception of politics.</p>
<p>The results find a relatively stable identity in the form of class identities in Britain – formed by the long-term influences of one’s parents’ class and party identities, class identities are shown to be strongly political identities in both their origins and their effects. The thesis also examines identities more malleable to political change – it finds that national identities in Scotland and England have been rocked by recent major political events, particularly the 2016 Brexit referendum. After that referendum Britishness declined in Scotland while Englishness and Britishness fell in England.</p>
<p>Another seismic political event - the coronavirus pandemic – changed political attitudes in Scotland, with those who judged either the Scottish or UK Government to have handled the issue well becoming more favourable to the governing party – though only if they previously liked the party and its leader.</p>
<p>Together, these papers delve into some of the ways in which political attitudes and identities have developed in Britain in recent years. They demonstrate that not all identities and attitudes respond to turbulent political times in similar ways, but individually and together they contribute to our understanding of how recent political developments have changed British politics.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:60afa99f-71c5-4aff-a14d-034e1107aa312024-10-08T09:24:30ZThe development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and BritainThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:60afa99f-71c5-4aff-a14d-034e1107aa31Voting researchSociologyElectionsPolitics and governmentEnglishHyrax Deposit2024Macfarlane, EFisher, S<p>This thesis assesses developments in political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain in the context of a changing and more volatile electorate. Using British Election Study data from 2014-2021, it contains four papers addressing different elements of changing political attitudes and identities over a period of turbulent politics. The thesis examines how identities are formed and the consequences of identities for the perception of politics.</p> <p>The results find a relatively stable identity in the form of class identities in Britain – formed by the long-term influences of one’s parents’ class and party identities, class identities are shown to be strongly political identities in both their origins and their effects. The thesis also examines identities more malleable to political change – it finds that national identities in Scotland and England have been rocked by recent major political events, particularly the 2016 Brexit referendum. After that referendum Britishness declined in Scotland while Englishness and Britishness fell in England.</p> <p>Another seismic political event - the coronavirus pandemic – changed political attitudes in Scotland, with those who judged either the Scottish or UK Government to have handled the issue well becoming more favourable to the governing party – though only if they previously liked the party and its leader.</p> <p>Together, these papers delve into some of the ways in which political attitudes and identities have developed in Britain in recent years. They demonstrate that not all identities and attitudes respond to turbulent political times in similar ways, but individually and together they contribute to our understanding of how recent political developments have changed British politics.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Voting research Sociology Elections Politics and government Macfarlane, E The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain |
| title | The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain |
| title_full | The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain |
| title_fullStr | The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain |
| title_full_unstemmed | The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain |
| title_short | The development of political attitudes and identities in Scotland and Britain |
| title_sort | development of political attitudes and identities in scotland and britain |
| topic | Voting research Sociology Elections Politics and government |
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