Theresa May’s surprise decision to call a snap General Election for June 8th 2017 sets up a contest that may come to define British politics for decades. The work of political scientists can help us to understand the long-term and short-term forces that shape all elections. Changes in society and the economy set the scene for broad shifts in public opinion and party competition, while a range of factors influence the decisions of individuals in the privacy of the polling booth. A wide range of books and journal articles published by Cambridge University Press offer valuable insights into the wider political context of 2017 and the factors that tend to matter in British elections specifically.
These articles and chapters are available free of charge until end of July 2017 and you can click on each sub-heading to access the relevant section directly. CONT.
Will Jennings (U. of Southampton), Cambridge U. Press