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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483420003321

Autore

Coleman Stephen <1957->

Titolo

Capturing the mood of democracy : the British general election 2019 / / Stephen Coleman, Jim Brogden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-53138-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 129 p. 30 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

301.0924

Soggetti

Democracy - Great Britain - History - 21st century

Ethnology - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government Public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. An Election Comes to Town -- 2. Looking for Democracy -- 3. Contesting Narratives - How Stories Fill Holes -- 4. The Poetics of a Real-Time Election -- 5. How to Capture a Political Mood.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about what it means to speak of a political mood. Can the electorate be in a mood? How do they express it? How can moods be captured in a meaningful way? This book attempts to answer those questions by looking at one city during the December 2019 British general election. This is not a book about campaign strategies, target voters, turnouts and poll swings. It is about how people feel. The research approach is ethnographic. The telling of the story is lyrical. It may not be hard political science but it contributes significantly to an understanding of the health of contemporary democracy. Focusing upon the ways that voters and non-voters perform their enthusiasm or indifference, the stories that they tell, and photographic images of Bradford in what is supposed to be a vital democratic moment, this book invites readers to engage with the affective texture of an election. .