Popular understandings of politics since 1945 Event

Date:: 19 May 2016
Venue:: Portcullis House Westminster, London SW1A 0AA

For more information regarding this event, please telephone Dr Jonathan Moss on 02380 592204 or email J.T.Moss@Southampton.ac.uk .

Event details

This Portcullis House public briefing, kindly hosted by Tristram Hunt MP, will examine the findings of Dr Stoker, Jennings, Clarke & Moss's recent study 'Popular Understandings of Politics Since 1945'. This event will involve a summary of the study by Dr Stoker followed by a panel discussion. The context from this ESRC funded project emerged was the current discussion of rising distrust, cynicism, and disaffection on the part of citizens towards formal politics in Britain and elsewhere. The project aimed to inform such discussion by drawing on two relatively underused datasets: survey research going back to at least the Second World War (e.g. Gallup opinion polls); and volunteer writing in the Mass Observation Archive.

Speaker information

Prof Gerry Stoker,Professor Stoker’s main research interests are in governance, democratic politics, local and regional governance, urban politics, public participation and public service reform. He was the founding chair of the New Local Government Network that was the think-tank of the year in 2004 and his most recent book Why Politics Matters won the 2006 political book of the year award from the Political Studies Association of the UK