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Wedge issues, winning votes and car drivers

Hickman, Robin; (2023) Wedge issues, winning votes and car drivers. Town & Country Planning pp. 370-372. Green open access

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Abstract

There are two major political events looming in the UK, and they are leading to an interesting turn in tactics by the Conservative Party, incidentally trailing badly in the polls for both. The London mayoral election will be held in May 2024 and the UK general election at the latest by January 2025 (the current electoral rules are that a general election has to be held at most five years after the preceding election). A tactic that we see emerging in contemporary political strategy in the UK, drawing on decades of practice from the US, is to create ‘wedge issues’. These are topics with a controversial and divisive nature, typically with a populist theme. The aim is to attract voters from the opposition or to raise an issue of internal dissent that may help to reduce support for the opposition, including through disillusionment.

Type: Article
Title: Wedge issues, winning votes and car drivers
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.tcpa.org.uk/
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180597
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