Our book, Politics in the UK; Place, Pluralism and Identities seeks to update how we analyse politics. Politics is full of narratives and analytical tools that we’ve used for decades.  Sometimes when we find that old models no longer work as we imagine that they used to, we spend years talking about it, keeping alive analytical structures that we should have buried long ago.  Traditional political cleavages in voting patterns are a good example of this.  We have been talking about how they no longer work since at least as far back as when Joanie was an undergrad, more than 20 years ago.

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