Brexitland: identity, diversity and the reshaping of British politics by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii+391 pp., £15.99 (paperback) & £49.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9781108461900
Brexitland: identity, diversity and the reshaping of British politics by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii+391 pp., £15.99 (paperback) & £49.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9781108461900
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《Brexitland：身份、多样性和英国政治的重塑》作者：Maria Sobolewska 和 Robert Ford，剑桥，剑桥大学出版社，2020 年。 xvii 391 页，15.99 英镑（平装本）
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10.1080/01419870.2020.1860245
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2021
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在当代政治的学术分析中，公众舆论是王道。随着自由民主国家的多党竞争演变成分裂，对强人政治和单一问题公民投票的一维判决，公众舆论奖学金也从未如此突出或讨论过。英国脱欧是这类工作的繁荣时期。曼彻斯特大学教授玛丽亚·索博莱夫斯卡和罗伯特·福特坐在一个高度可见和有影响力的工作领域的清醒和最学术的一端，从约翰·柯蒂斯在选举之夜的技术研究，通过杰夫·埃文斯和威尔·詹宁斯等学者通过绘制工党心脏地带的损失来呼应“蓝色左派”，到马修·古德温的反自由主义专栏挑衅，埃里克·考夫曼和大卫·古德哈特。所有这些人似乎都渴望成为媒体的焦点：有时会笨拙地将“数据科学”与接近媒体评论和政党战略逻辑的工作结合起来。英国脱欧可能是福特与古德温合作的早期著作《右翼的反抗》（Revolt on the Right，2014）的顶峰：在英国独立党，奈杰尔法拉奇的崛起，以及两党主导的英国政治的撕裂和重组。它认为，英国退欧是英国政治地震转变的终点，这种转变可以追溯到战后时期。这一观点的关键是他们所看到的根深蒂固的“文化战争”的出现，这种战争基本上是在大西洋彼岸肆虐的战争中出现的，其中一个关键因素是几十年来“移民”作为英国政治中的外卡的可变突出性。
IN THE scholarly analysis of contemporary politics, public opinion is king. As liberal democracies have seen multi-party competition devolve into divisive, one dimensional verdicts on strong man politics and single issue referenda, so has public opinion scholarship never been more prominent or discussed. Brexit in the UK has been a boomtime for this kind of work. University of Manchester professors Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford sit at the sober and most scholarly end of a highly visible and influential field of work, that runs from the technical boffinry of John Curtice on election night, via scholars such as Geoff Evans and Will Jennings echoing the “blue left” by charting the loss of the Labour heartlands, to the anti-liberal op. ed. provocations of Matthew Goodwin, Eric Kaufmann and David Goodhart. All of them seem to share a thirst for the media limelight: sometimes awkwardly combining “data science” with work close to the logic of media commentary and party strategising.Brexitland may stand as the capstone of a literature first launched by Ford’s earlier volume with Goodwin, Revolt on the Right (2014): on the rise of UKIP, Nigel Farage, and the ripping apart and realignment of two party dominated British politics. Brexit, it argues, was the end point of a seismic shift in British politics that can be drawn right back through the post-war period. Key to this view has been the emergence of what they see as a deeply rooted “cultural war” patterned essentially on the one raging on the other side of the Atlantic, with one crucial dimension–the variable salience over the decades of “immigration” as the wild card in British politics.