The British political arena has long been an inhospitable place for minor parties. While UKIP is the latest to turn heads, from one election to the next history is littered with failed contenders. Back in the 1980s, it was noted how one of the more significant attempts to challenge the main parties, by the Social Democratic Party, was akin to an …
BNP talking to voters. Image by Matthew Barrett.
This post originally appeared on British Politics and Policy at LSE.
Among academics who study elections and political parties, most accept that the way a party campaigns can have important effects on its overall performance. As scholars such as Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie have argued (and shown), amidst the decline of partisanship, …
Writing in the Guardian Comment is Free, Dr Matthew Goodwin offers his assessment of what the local elections reveal about support for the far right.
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This post first appeared over at Dr Matt Goodwin’s personal blog.
For the British National Party and Nick Griffin, the forthcoming elections in London mark an opportunity to stage a comeback. Taking place against the backdrop of withering electoral fortunes, and a recurring bout of factionalism, the elections signal a chance to put the bad blood to one side
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Yesterday, Dr Matt Goodwin gave evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on the Roots of Violent Radicalisation.
The invitation follows a series of research projects on why some citizens support far right extremists, and which were generously supported by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy and Integrating Global Society funding stream at the University of Nottingham.…
The Radio 4 programme ‘Four Thought’ recently aired my talk on the prospects for the far right in Britain.
A slightly different version was published in the BBC News magazine, while a Kindle edition of my book was also released to coincide with the talk.
The aim behind the talk was to challenge the conventional wisdom that the British …
In the aftermath of the atrocities in Norway, the Economist asked Matt Goodwin to discuss the British far-right in light of the events in Norway.
In the aftermath of the atrocities in Norway, the Guardian asked Matt Goodwin to join a roundtable discussion on the far right, with Dan Hodges, journalist Matthew Taylor and Hugh Muir which which you can listen to here.…
Dr Matthew Goodwin, a member of staff in the School of Politics and International Relations at Nottingham – and the author of New British Fascism, a recently published book on the British National Party – has been interviewed by the Guardian’s Chris Arnot about building stable communities.…
On June 1 2011, we contributed a post about the extent to which the British National Party, UK Independence Party and the Conservatives were ‘fishing in the same pond’ of voters for their electoral support.
We did so on the basis of a 2009 survey, in which respondents were not only asked which party they would vote for in a …
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