The 2019 European Electoral Campaign
In the Time of Populism and Social Media
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Knocking Copy: How the National Press Covered the Campaign
Although national newspapers are fast declining in terms of their hard copy circulations, Dominic Wring, David Deacon and David Smith explore how they still helped define what were, and were not, the key news ...
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Background to the Campaign: From Confidence and Supply to the Oven-Ready Deal
British politics entered a period of extraordinary flux following the narrow votes in favour of Leave in the 2016 EU Referendum and the Conservatives in the 2017 General Election. Although the latter campaign ...
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Introduction: A Campaign (More or Less) About the European Union
The Introduction to this volume provides a brief overview of the political context and media landscape surrounding the 2019 EU election. The outcome of the ensuring campaign is considered along with interpreta...
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A Gulf Across the Irish Sea? The European Election Campaigns in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
This chapter considers the very differing election experiences in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, where the UK and its future relationship with the EU played a significant role in both campaigns on ...
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Enduring Brands: The Press
When the 2019 general election was called, the Conservative-supporting press heralded it as ‘The Brexit Election’ which would enable Boris Johnson to ‘get Brexit done’. But uncertainty over whether other issue...
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A Tale of Two Parties: Press and Television Coverage of the Campaign
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the issues and personalities that defined an election dominated by the two major parties and particularly their leaders. Coverage of the so-called ‘electoral p...
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Seven Weeks Is a Long Time in Politics
Against prior expectations the 2017 General Election proved to be a particularly dramatic campaign, repeatedly stunning commentators from its surprise calling right through to its frenetic conclusion. In seven...
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A Bad Press: Newspapers
Like Theresa May, many in the print media will want to forget the 2017 general election. The outcome of the campaign came as a particular shock to those newspapers that have long prided themselves on being abl...
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Introduction
During the closing stages of the General Election David Cameron brandished a letter written by an outgoing Labour Treasury minister joking ‘I’m afraid there is no money’. In the still ongoing financial uncerta...
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The Media Campaign: The Issues and Personalities Who Defined the Election
Loughborough University’s team provides a comprehensive study of how the major print and broadcast media covered the campaign. Based on content analysis of the main television bulletins as well as every natio...
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Framing Politics: The Enduring Appeal of the Poster in British General Election Campaigns
The poster has been the most durable form of political communication and has played a high-profile role in successive British General Election campaigns. The most well-known example of this was the work of the...
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Populist Politics and the ‘Radical Right’ in 2014 Elections
The European Parliament elections in 2014 ended in momentous gains throughout the continent for several grou**s that have explicitly questioned the form, and even the very existence, of the European Union (E...
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Still Life in the Old Attack Dogs: The Press
During the 2015 campaign, there was considerable negativity and partiality in much press reporting; it was not difficult to find examples of robust political partisanship descending into personal vilification....
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Political Communication in Britain
The Leader Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election
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Introduction
For the first time in a general election since the hung parliament of 1974 no single party emerged as the winner of the 2010 campaign. The Conservatives came first with 36.1 per cent of the vote (306 seats, up...
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Reporting the 2010 General Election: Old Media, New Media — Old Politics, New Politics
To say that the media are central to modern election campaigning may be axiomatic, but there are specific reasons why the media are particularly significant in British general elections. Britain still has a ve...
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Patterns of press partisanship in the 2010 General Election
From a communications perspective much of the commentary and analysis of the 2010 General Election focused on the possible influence of the first ever televised leaders’ debates as well as the burgeoning range...
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