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City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election

A detailed analysis of the 2024 UK General Election, as it proceeds, by academics based at the School of Policy and Global Affairs, City, University of London. Participants: Professor Michael Ben-Gad, Dr Lise Butler, Professor Charles Lees, Professor Ian Pace, Professor Chris Rojek, Dr Konstantin Vossing. Produced and edited by Maria Martinez-Ugartechea. Overall coordination and production by Ian Pace. Music played by Ian Pace.

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00:39:47

Episode 12: The 2024 election in retrospect and what...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/07/11

In the final episode of the podcast Ian Pace, Michael Ben-Gad, Konstantin Vossing, Lise Butler, and Eric Harrison reflect on the results of the election. They revisit their early forecasts about the outcome; hear from Eric about how closely the polls predicted the election results; ask what kind of challenges will face the new Labour government; and ask whether the results of the recent election in France tell us anything about the future of social democracy and populism in Western Europe.

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00:24:37

Episode 011: Polling Techniques and Party Campaigns

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/07/04

This episode is hosted by Professor Chris Rojek, Head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at City. He is joined by Professor Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society, and special guest Dr Eric Harrison, Deputy Director of the European Social Survey, which is based at City. He gives some detail about the techniques used by opinion pollsters and outlines some of the contingencies and risks in response to questions from both others. He also contrasts these with the strategies used

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00:39:54

Episode 10: Britain in the world, higher education,...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/07/04

This episode is hosted by Professor Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society, with guests Professor Charles Lees, Dean of the School of Policy and Global Affairs, and Professor Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics. They discuss the aftermath of the US Presidential Debate and the implications of the US election for a new British government, how the new prevalence of social media affects the political public sphere, and the impact of J.K. Rowling’s intervention in the election, expressing

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00:52:10

Episode 09: The Calm before the Storm: reflections on...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/07/04

In this episode Prof. Charlie Lees chairs a discussion with Prof. Michael Ben Gad and Dr. Konstantin Vossing. They assess the UK election campaign as we approach the last week, get diverted by Joe Biden’s calamitous performance in the TV debate with Donald Trump, and speculate as to how a future Labour-led UK will navigate an increasingly unpredictable international scene. On the way, they discuss electoral systems, political gambling, and ponder an alternative universe where George Galloway is

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00:33:43

Episode 08: Politics as performance, housing policy...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/28

In this episode Lise Butler and Chris Rojek speak to Professor Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. They discuss his most recent book, The Performer: Art, Life, Politics, asking what kind of performance is at play in the current election; how the next government should resolve the housing crisis; and whether the major political parties have a clear idea of ‘the good society’.

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00:35:49

Episode 07: Labour from Corbyn to Starmer

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/22

This episode is hosted by Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, with special guest Stephen Pollard, editor-at-large of The Jewish Chronicle, as well as regular participants Chris Rojek, Head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology, and Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics. They discuss Stephen's trajectory from researcher to Peter Shore and policy advisor to New Labour, to endorsing the Conservative manifesto in 2019, as well as the impact of Corbyn in the Jewish

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00:23:55

Episode 06: Polls, Economic Growth and Taxes, also...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/18

In this episode Professor Michael Ben-Gad and Professor Chris Rojek look at recent polling. They remain sceptical of new projections that Labour will achieve a majority of over one hundred seats, but nonetheless as good Bayesians, update their priors. They then discuss the Labour manifesto. Is growth feasible? Is it desirable? Macroeconomists struggle to understand which policies might generate sustained economic growth, yet politicians think they have uncovered its secrets. Chris discusses Nigel

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00:54:45

Episode 05: Culture Wars, Class Politics and Democracy

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/16

In this episode we welcome our guest contributor Dr Joanna Williams, academic, author and journalist. Joanna is a columnist for Spiked and a regular contributor to the Times. Her most recent book is How Woke Won. Joanna talks to Professor Michael Ben-Gad and Professor Ian Pace about the shift in UK politics from a focus on the concerns of ordinary working people, in favour of an identity politics that best suits the interests of the graduate elite. They also discuss the future of academic freedom

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00:34:25

Episode 04: Rishi Sunak’s Epic Fail

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/12

In this episode we welcome our guest contributor Professor Tim Bale (Queen Mary, University of London) who talks with Professor Charles Lees about why the media’s use of Vox Pops is a waste of time and also how the Prime Minister’s week badly unravelled, following his unexpectedly strong performance in the first Leadership Debate on Tuesday. We ask what on earth where he and his team thinking when he left the D Day celebrations on Thursday. We then move on to strategy and discuss whether Isaac

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00:33:16

Episode 03: What Kind of Society are the Main Parties...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/07

The third episode of City Politicos’ 2024 Election podcast is hosted by Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at City, University of London. He is joined by Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics, and Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society. They discuss the effect of voting of Nigel Farage’s return to organized politics. What are the main differences between the Parties with respect to the society that they are trying to build in the

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00:50:05

Episode 02: Issues or Personalities? The Theatre of...

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/06/04

The second episode of City Politicos' 2024 Election Podcast is hosted by Ian Pace, Professor of Music, Culture and Society at City, University of London, and coordinator of this podcast. He is joined by Dr Lise Butler, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, and Konstantin Vössing, Reader in International Politics. They discuss the situations of Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott, the polls predicting a huge Labour victory, and especially the question of politics as a form of performance and theatre, in the

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00:54:27

Episode 01: Welcome to City Politicos

City Politicos: Counting Down to UK 2024 Election ·

2024/05/31

The starting pistols have been fired for the UK 2024 general election. In the first episode of City Politicos: Counting Down to the UK 2024 Election, academics from the School of Policy and Global Affairs at City, University of London, discuss the questions that face the country five weeks before the general election. Are the Tories making policy on the fly, and how seriously should we take their policy offer? How is the Labour Party positioning itself in terms of political strategy, and what will

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