The 2010 General Election was one of the most dramatic contests of recent times. In this comprehensive analysis of the election campaign and its aftermath,a team of experts assess the results and examine the key issues and new campaign features of this unusual election. The book explores how the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition was formed and asks whether coalition government will become less expectional in future. INDICE: Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge: Introduction: How Britain GotHung; David Denver: The Results: How Britain Voted; Ruth Fox: Five Days in May: A New Political Order Emerges; John Curtice: So What Went Wrong with the Electoral System? The 2010 Election Result and the Debate About Electoral Reform; Andrew Gamble: New Labour and Political Change; Steven Fielding: Labour's Campaign: Things Can Only Get Worse?; Jane Green: Strategic Recovery? The Conservatives Under David Cameron; David Cutts, Edward Fieldhouse and Andrew Russell: The Campaign That Changed Everything and Still Did Not Matter? The Liberal Democrat Campaign and Performance; James Mitchell and Arno van der Zwet: A Catenaccio Game: the 2010 Election in Scotland; Jonathan Bradbury: Wales and the 2010 General Election; Jonathan Tonge and Jocelyn Evans: Northern Ireland: Unionism Loses More Leaders; Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs: Wags', 'Wives' and 'Mothers' But what about Women Politicians?; Justin Fisher: Party Finance: Normal Service Resumed?; Dominic Wring and Stephen Ward: The Media and the 2010 Campaign: the Television Election?; Martin J. Smith: From Big Government to Big Society: Changing the StateSociety Balance; Richard G. Whitman: The Calm Afterthe Storm? Foreign and Security Policy from Blair to Brown; Andrew Geddes andJonathan Tonge: An Absorbing Hanging; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960327-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés