The British General Election of 2017

Written by leading UK Politics experts, with significant academic and practitioner experience Consistently highly reviewed across 18 editions: 'The Bible of General Elections', David Dimbleby, BBC; 'The gold standard of political writing'; Gary Gibbon, Channel 4; 'Treated by political scientists as near-definitive', The Guardian; 'Almost part of the British constitution, though much more solid and authoritative', New StatesmanPhilip Cowley was one of the experts analysing the election results for the BBC's Radio 4 Election Night programme, writes regularly for the press, including for the Spectator and the Guardian.Dennis kavanag

Provides the authoritative account of the 2017 snap election in the UK Written by leading British politics experts, with significant academic and practitioner experience Is the 20th edition in this prestigious series dating back to 1945

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Philip Cowley is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has been involved in the Palgrave Macmillan election series since 2010.

Dennis Kavanagh is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been involved in every one of the Palgrave Macmillan election studies since February 1974.

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1. Not Going Entirely to Plan.- 2. Brexit; Jack Glynn and Anand Menon.- 3. From Stockbroker's Son to Vicar's Daughter. The Conservatives.- 4. From Miliband to Corbyn. Labour.- 5. Liberal Democrats and Others.- 6. Still Different, Only Slightly Less So: Scotland; Gerry Hassan.- 7. Towards a Landslide.- 8. Everything Changes; with Wes Ball.- 9. Horrors and Hopes.- 10. Election Night and Its Aftermath.- 11. Wrong Footed Again: The Polls.- 12. Targeted (and Untargeted) Campaigning.- 13.Campaign Coverage and Editorial Judgements: Broadcasting; Stephen Cushion and Charlie Beckett.- 14 . A Bad Press: Newspapers; David Deacon and Dominic Wring.- 15. Political recruitment under pressure: MPs and Candidates; Rosie Campbell and Jennifer Hudson.- 16. The Election in Retrospect.- Appendix 1: The Results Analysed; John Curtice, Stephen Fisher, Robert Ford and Patrick English.- Appendix 2: The VotingStatistics.- Appendix 3: Select Political Chronology 201517.