Order and chaos - why the left keeps losing
Rafael Behr talks to Dr Lee de-Wit about how moral psychology can help us understand why some parts of the left struggle to connect with socially conservative voters.
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Show Notes
In this episode Rafael Behr talks to Cambridge University political psychologist Dr Lee de-Wit about the problem with progressive arguments over patriotism, and Labour's constant struggle to connect with socially conservative voters.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Dr Lee de-Wit's Cambridge University homepage
https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/lee-de-wit
Arnold Kling's book
https://cdn.cato.org/libertarianismdotorg/books/ThreeLanguagesOfPolitics.pdf
Haidt and Moral Foundations Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory
Tariq Modood's site
YouGov poll on immigration
Dr Lee de-Wit's book
http://eandtbooks.com/books/whats-your-bias/
Dr Lee de-Wit's recent article in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/11/politics-left-right-tories-advantage-labour
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