BU Research Blog

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Truth, Lies and Civic Culture

1. Delusions of democracy 
Natalie Fenton
2. What’s the election communication system like now? 
Jay Blumler
3. The rules of the campaign found wanting 
Alan Renwick
4. Sorry, not sorry: hubris, hate and the politics of shame 
Karen Ross
5. The “coarsening” of campaigns 
Dan Stevens, Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath and André Krouwel
6. Online hate and the “nasty” election 
Helen Margetts and Bertie Vidgen
7. GE2019 was not a Brexit election: trust and credibility, anti-politics and populism 
Matt Flinders
8. The online public shaming of political candidates in the 2019 General Election 
Mark Wheeler
9. Strategic lying: the new game in town 
Ivor Gaber
10. Fact-checkers’ attempts to check rhetorical slogans and misinformation 
Jen Birks
11. The election where British fourth estate journalism moved closer to extinction 
Aeron Davis
12. Rethinking impartiality in an age of political disinformation 
Stephen Cushion
13. Fake news, emotions, and social media 
Karin Wahl Jorgensen
14. Unleashing optimism in an age of anxiety 
Candida Yates

Voters, Polls and Results

15. Boris’s missing women 
Jessica Smith
16. An expected surprise? An evaluation of polls and seat forecasts during the campaign.
Matt Wall and Jack Tudor
17. Unprecedented interest or more of the same? Turnout in the 2019 election 
Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie
18. Cartographic perspectives of the 2019 General Election 
Benjamin Hennig
19. Tactical voting advice sites 
Chris Hanretty
20. Another election, another disappointment: Young people vote left and are left behind at GE2019 
James Sloam and Matt Henn
21. Divided we fall: Was Nigel Farage the kingmaker of the Johnson victory? 
Pippa Norris

The Nations

22. A renewed electoral pitch for independence in Wales 
Siim Trumm
23. “It’s the constitution, eejit”: Scotland and the agenda wars 
Michael Higgins
24. Gender takes to the shade in Scotland 
Fiona McKay
25. The election in Northern Ireland: A route back to Stormont? 
Jonathan Tonge
26. ‘Remain alliance’ win the BBC Northern Ireland Leaders’ debate (online at least) 
Paul Reilly

Parties and the Campaign

27. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something EU 
Russell Foster
28. ‘Weak and wobbly’ to ‘get Brexit done’: 2019 and Conservative campaigns 
Anthony Ridge-Newman
29. Conservative victories in Labour heartlands in the 2019 General Election 
Peter Reeves
30. Corbyn and Johnson’s strategic narratives on the campaign trail 
Pawel Surowiec, Victoria Copeland and Nathan Olsen
31. More Blimp, less Gandhi: the Corbyn problem 
Darren Lilleker
32. The Media and the Manifestos: why 2019 wasn’t 2017 redux for the Labour party 
Mike Berry
33. Down a slippery rope… is Britain joining the global trends towards right-wing populism? 
Mona Moufahim
34. The Brexit Party’s impact – if any 
Pete Dorey
35. Farage: Losing the battle to win the war 
Pippa Norris
36. Party election broadcasts … Actually? 
Vincent Campbell
37. GE 2019: lessons for political branding 
Jenny Lloyd
38. The postmodern election 
Barry Richards

Policy and Strategy

39. The uses and abuses of the left-right distinction in the campaign 
Jonathan Dean
40. Entitlement and incoherence: Centrist ‘bollocks’ 
Matthew Johnson
41. Brexit doesn’t mean Brexit, but the pursuit of power 
Thom Brooks
42. What ever happened to euroscepticism? 
Simon Usherwood
43. Immigration in the 2019 General Election Campaign 
Kerry Moore
44. Immigration in party manifestos. Threat or resource? 
Elena-Alina Dolea
45. Foreign policy in the 2019 election 
Victoria Honeyman
46. Post-Brexit ‘Global Britain’ as the theatre of the New Cold War 
Roman Gerodimos
47. The Rorschach Election: How the US narrates UK politics 
Victor Pickard
48. If everyone has a mandate…surely nobody has a mandate? 
Mark Shephard
49. The climate election that wasn’t 
David McQueen
50. Is this a climate election (yet)? 
Jenny Alexander
51. Movement-led electoral communication: Extinction Rebellion action and party policy in the media 
Abi Rhodes

The Digital Campaign

52. Digital campaign regulation: more urgent than ever? 
Kate Dommett and Sam Power
53. Did the Conservatives embrace social media in 2019? 
Richard Fletcher
54. #GE2019 – Labour owns the Tories on Instagram, the latest digital battlefield 
Matt Walsh
55. Spot the difference: how Nicola Sturgeon and Jo Swinson self-represented on Twitter 
Sally Osei-Appiah
56. “Go back to your student politics”? Momentum, the digital campaign, and what comes next 
James Dennis and Susana Sampaiao Dias
57. Taking the Tube 
Alec Charles
58. The politics of deletion in social media campaigns 
Marco Bastos
59. “Behind the curtain of the targeting machine” – Political parties A/B testing in action 
Tristan Hotham
60. Against opacity, outrage & deception in digital political campaigning 
Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay
61. The explosion of the public sphere 
Martin Moore and Gordon Ramsay
62. Big chickens, dumbfakes, squirrel killers: was 2019 the election where ‘shitposing’ went mainstream? 
Rosalynd Southern

News and Journalism

63. Time to fix our TV debates 
Nick Anstead
64. What was all that about, then? The media agenda in the 2019 General Election 
David Deacon et al
65. Pluralism or partisanship? Calibrating punditry on BBC2’s Politics Live 
James Morrison
66. Hero and villain: the media’s role in identity management
Jagon Chichon
67. Traditional majoritarian conceptions of UK politics pose a dilemma for the media in elections 
Louise Thompson
68. #GE2019: A tale of two elections? 
Aljosha Karim Schapals
69. Boxing clever: negotiating gender in campaign coverage during the 2019 General Election 
Emily Harmer
70. Press distortion of public opinion polling: what can, or should, be done? 
Steve Barnett
71. The final verdict: patterns of press partisanship 
Dominic Wring and David Deacon
72. The class war election 
Des Freedman
73. An uncertain future for alternative online media? 
Declan McDowell-Naylor and Richard Thomas

Personality politics and Pop Culture

74. Tune in, turn away, drop out: Emotionality and the decision not to stand 
Beth Johnson and Katy Parry
75. Last fan standing: Jeremy Corbyn supporters in the 2019 General Election 
Cornel Sandvoss
76. Linguistic style in the Johnson vs Corbyn televised debates of the 2019 General Election campaign 
Sylvia Shaw
77. Order! Order! The Speaker, celebrity politics and ritual performance 
Marcel Broersma
78. What is Boris Johnson? 
John Street
79. Creating Boris: Nigel Farage and the 2019 election 
Neil Ewen
80. Boris the clown – the effective performance of incompetence 
Lone Sorensen
81. Political humour and the problem of taking Boris seriously 
Andrew Glencross
82. Joking: uses and abuses of humour in the election campaign 
Sophie Quirk, Tom Sharkey and Ed Wilson
83. The problem with satirising the election 
Allaina Kilby
84. Sounding Off: music and musicians’ interventions in the 2019 election campaign 
Adam Behr
85. Stormzy, status, and the serious business of social media spats 
Ellen Watts