UKIP and the rise of populist politics (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | Keir Martin Katherine Smith |
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| Institution: | 1. Lecturers in social anthropology at the University of Manchester.;2. Researched emerging forms of social stratification in Papua New Guinea and has published on issues such as the current financial crisis and the role of religion in public life.;3. Carried out ethnographic fieldwork in the north of England on the subjects of fairness and equality, social policy, social class, Englishness, political correctness and humour. She is author of Fairness, class and belonging in contemporary England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co‐editor of Extraordinary encounters: Authenticity and the interview (Berghahn, 2015). |
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| Abstract: | This editorial looks at the underlying factors of the ‘earth quake’ victory of UKIP in the British local and European elections, the first time a party other than the Conservatives or Labour has topped a UK nationwide elections in 108 years. |
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