Dissertation topic ideas for politics?

[roconnell]

Please help me come up with a topic for my politics dissertation. I have no idea what to do. I'm not interested in any particular aspect of my course

For me, what's really interesting at the moment is what I would call a 'Liberal orthodoxy', it seems to me that there is a shut down of any debate re immigration, globalisation, the EU and the effect they have on UK citizens lives. My observation is that a great trenches of the country feel silenced and marginalized within their own communities and thus we have Brexit and the slow rise of the far right. I'm not saying any of this is 'right' or good, but I feel we need to examine this in more depth than we currently do as they labelling of those pro Brexit, anti immigration voters as stupid and racist is very damaging. Sure, some of them are but 50%- not likely?!

Rather than asking MN to doyour job for you, I’d start by:

1. Thinking through what topics you’ve studied that have interested you, and picking one of them.
2. Reading around that topic.
3. Talking to your supervisor/whoever is leading the module if you don’t yet have a supervisor.

If you're not interested, why did you choose it?

I chose my politics dissertation by which supervisor I found most interesting! So I ended up doing it on Police use of Firearms!

Sorry that's supposed to say I'm not particularly interested in any one aspect of my course. It's so rich I'm finding it very hard to narrow it down.

And by ‘interested’, I really mean that you found less tedious than the rest (if you genuinely are not at all interested in the course you chose).

Pick something you’ve studied and read around it until you get an idea about what you could do.

Hmm, 6 hours could be a couple of long conference calls. Can you see any info on time of call?

Baaaah wrong thread!

kind of echo katniss, something around alienation, loss of the centre ground; or maybe something about the seeming return to 2 party politics given the % voting tory or labour at the last GE

Or maybe focus at something more specific - how did a life long labour seat like Mansfield, elect a conservative MP for the first time ever

Sign yourself up to the 'Developing your research project' course on FutureLearn. It will help you to narrow down an area of interest.

How about the political representation of austerity/ austerity narrative.