With the election campaign now well underway, we’d like to draw your attention to some recent articles that provide timely evaluations of key political actors and the broader contexts shaping politics in the UK.
- Arise, Careerless Politician: The Rise of the Professional Party Leader by Stephen Barber
- Gendered Candidate Emergence in Britain: Why are More Women Councillors Not Becoming MPs? by Peter Allen
- Developing an Elite Formation Index for Comparative Elite Studies: The Case of the Schooling of Irish and UK Cabinet Ministers by Brendan K. O’Rourke, John Hogan and Paul F. Donnelly
- Narrating One Nation: The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party by Judi Atkins
From gendered dynamics in the nomination process to the social background of cabinet ministers, we hope that these articles provide you with some further insight into the British political landscape shaping #ge2015.
Our initial release of #ge2015 articles can be found here.
