Marching to the Left? Programmatic Competition and the 2017 Party Manifestos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8071832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Allen (0000-0002-3172-3506, corresponding author), Judith Bara (0000-0003-2000-6664) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-133 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| 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.12638 |
| OpenAlex | W2910684447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This article analyses the content of the 2017 general election manifestos, and introduces the latest estimates from the Manifesto Project to explore recent ideological movements in the British party system. It reports the changing policy emphases in Conservative and Labour manifestos and the ideological positions of the major political parties in 2017. It finds that Theresa May's party produced its most left‐wing manifesto since 1964, and that Jeremy Corbyn's party produced its most left‐wing manifesto since 1992 and the election before the advent of New Labour. The article also finds that the ideological space between the Conservatives and Labour opened up in 2017, and that Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists published the most right‐wing manifesto
Democracy · General election · Ideology · Left-wing politics · Manifesto · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Right wing · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |