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The Rhetoric and Reality of Austerity: Electoral Politics in Britain 2010 to 2015

In: State, Institutions and Democracy

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  • Paul Whiteley

    (University of Essex)

  • Harold D. Clarke

    (University of Texas at Dallas)

  • Marianne Stewart

    (University of Texas at Dallas)

Abstract

Britain experienced its first peace-time coalition government since the 1930s after the 2010 general election. It was put together very hastily and, to the surprise of many people, it survived for the 5 years planned in the original Coalition Agreement between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. By 2015 it was widely anticipated in the polls that the Parliament emerging from the general election would also be deadlocked and another possible coalition government formed, but this did not happen. Instead, the Conservatives won a surprising, but narrow election victory, capturing just short of 51 % of the seats in the House of Commons.

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  • Paul Whiteley & Harold D. Clarke & Marianne Stewart, 2017. "The Rhetoric and Reality of Austerity: Electoral Politics in Britain 2010 to 2015," Studies in Political Economy, in: Norman Schofield & Gonzalo Caballero (ed.), State, Institutions and Democracy, pages 79-103, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpocp:978-3-319-44582-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44582-3_4
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    1. Norman Schofield, 2017. "Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno Frey," Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 191-194, November.

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