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It’s not out for another six months or so, but *Electoral Realignment: How Brexit Reshaped British Voting Behaviour*, my book with Ed Fieldhouse, @profjanegreen.bsky.social , Geoff Evans, @jack-bailey.co.uk and @jonmellon.bsky.social, is up on the OUP website! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We use more than sixty years of British Election Study data to examine how electoral shocks - and Brexit in particular - have transformed the relationship between voters’ social characteristics, political values and party choices.

This realignment persisted beyond the 2019 ‘Brexit election’ because the electoral shocks that followed (e.g. the pandemic and cost of living crisis) were primarily about competence rather than ideology - shifting the electoral ‘tides’ but not the electoral ‘tribes’.

No doubt you’ll all be rushing to pre-order the hardcover for the bargain price of £95 (😬), but should that prove a little steep, we’re pleased to say that the electronic version will be available open access, i.e. free!