How politicians created, rather than reacted to, negative public opinion on benefits

O'Grady, Tom (2017) How politicians created, rather than reacted to, negative public opinion on benefits. British Politics and Policy Blog (07 Nov 2017). Website.

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Using House of Commons speeches on welfare from the late 1980s to 2015, Tom O’Grady finds that declining support for the benefits system was a top-down phenomenon. Shifts in political rhetoric – especially from Labour – did not occur after public opinion changed, but took place slightly before the public was changing its mind about benefits.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2017 09:06
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 21:13
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86017

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