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Perfect Political Storm
Author(s) -
JOHNSON JOY
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2008.00945.x
Subject(s) - gloom , cronyism , politics , crunch , newspaper , democracy , government (linguistics) , political science , economic history , political economy , law , history , sociology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , biology , physical therapy
After months of battering by allegations of cronyism and sustained hostile media from London's only paid for newspaper, Ken Livingstone's election campaign turned into the perfect political campaign. His third term bid to be Mayor of London wrecked on the high seas of democracy as the government grappled with economic gloom, a credit crunch and its lowest poll rating