Does political discourse matter? Comparing party positions and public attitudes on immigration in England. (May 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Does political discourse matter? Comparing party positions and public attitudes on immigration in England. (May 2019)
- Main Title:
- Does political discourse matter? Comparing party positions and public attitudes on immigration in England
- Authors:
- Leruth, Benjamin
Taylor-Gooby, Peter - Abstract:
- The 2015 UK General Election campaign was mostly dominated by the issues of immigration, public debt, and income inequality. While most political parties adopted austerity-led programmes in order to reduce the level of public deficit, their stances on immigration vary significantly despite the two main parties converging on a welfare chauvinist frame. This article compares party positions to policy recommendations formulated by participants in a democratic forum as part of the 'Welfare States Futures: Our Children's Europe' project in order to determine whether recent party pledges on immigration are being used by citizens in a large group discussion over the future of welfare policy in the United Kingdom. The analysis shows that while participants are committed to tougher policies in order to reduce existing levels of net migration, most of the policy priorities formulated do not match those of the two mainstream parties (i.e. the Conservative Party and the Labour Party) but rather those of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). It also demonstrates that participants' individual political preferences do not seem to match their own positions on immigration and that there is little difference between left-leaning and right-leaning voters.
- Is Part Of:
- Politics. Volume 39:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Politics
- Issue:
- Volume 39:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 39, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0039-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 154
- Page End:
- 169
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05
- Subjects:
- democratic forum -- immigration -- party politics -- public opinion -- United Kingdom
Political science -- Periodicals
320 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9256/issues ↗
http://pol.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0263395718755566 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0263-3957
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- Legaldeposit
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