Overview
- Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the long-term development trends of the British party competition
- Presents an in-depth electoral analysis with data from 1950 until today
- Examines new aspects of devolution, connecting it with long-term changes in the party competition
- Analyzes the underlying causes for the UK parliament’s inability to resolve Brexit or Scottish independence issues
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Electoral Politics (SSEP)
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About this book
This book examines the increasing territorialisation of party competition and the relaxation of unitarian rule through devolution, presenting a long-term analysis of electoral developments in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War.
Subsequently, the book looks into the undermining of the traditional majoritarian mode of British government as a result. It analyzes the significant role of these long-term developments and their detrimental effect on the parliament’s ability to resolve issues like the Scottish Independence Referendum or the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, and it addresses their underlying causes. The author additionally reconnects these electoral developments to the changing nature of devolution and shows how the deepening of devolution accelerates the negative electoral consequences for the British system of government. Finally, the book shows why the British Labour Party is turning more and more into a long-term minority party as a result of these developments.
The book is a must-read for scholars, students and policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of comparative politics and devolution in general, as well as in the more specific case of the United Kingdom’s electoral system.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Devolution Gambit
Book Subtitle: Political Territorialisation as a Threat to Constitutional Order
Authors: Tim Niendorf
Series Title: Springer Series in Electoral Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72523-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72522-8Published: 20 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72525-9Published: 21 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72523-5Published: 19 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-8103
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8111
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 183
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Electoral Politics, European Politics, Comparative Politics