Breaking the Deadlock

Nicholas Allen is Professor of Politics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonJohn Bartle is Professor of Government at the University of Essex

• Preface1 Deadlock: minority government and Brexit – Nicholas Allen2 The Conservative Party: the victory of the Eurosceptics – Thomas Quinn3 The Labour Party: leadership lacking – Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Harold D. Clarke4 The two-party system: ‘all else is embellishment and detail’ – John Bartle5 A changing electorate: new identities and the British ‘culture war’ – Maria Sobolewska6 Why did the Conservatives win? – Robert Johns7 2019: A critical election? – Jane Green8 Comparative perspectives – Sarah BirchAppendix: Results of British general elections, 1945–2019Index

‘Providing an essential and accessible guide, a stellar group of scholars in this volume...explain the campaign, analyse the results, and consider their meaning.’ Pippa Norris, Harvard University ‘The volume at hand caps a trio of British elections, ending in the Conservative breaking of the Brexit deadlock. These distinguished electoral scholars take the reader down all sorts of lively paths.’ Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa‘Readers outside the UK who want to keep up with British politics will find Breaking the deadlock an ideal one-volume fount of insight into the historic 2019 election.’ Jack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania