Public Opinion and the Depth of Labour's Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10360544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Kellner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-29 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3179 • E-ISSN: 1467-923X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-923x.12328 |
| OpenAlex | W2578938512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Labour's current problems are the culmination of long‐term trends flowing from the rising cost of tax‐funded services and welfare and voters’ mounting resistance to higher taxes to pay for them. As a result of this, there is now a big gulf between the attitudes of Labour party members, and in particular the supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, and Labour voters—and an even wider gulf with the extra voters Labour needs to win a future election. This gulf is also wide in relation to a range of other issues, including immigration, education and economic ideology. For Labour to return to government, it needs not just to narrow the gulf in policy, but to persuade voters of its ‘valence’ virtues of trust and competence—qualities in relation to which Labour currently lags the Conservatives by large margins
Coalition government · Competence (human resources · Economics · General election · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Immigration · Labour economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Public opinion · Welfare · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |