Intersectionality is an increasingly popular concept across several social sciences but has received little explicit attention within British political science. This note introduces the concept, identifies some problems in its application to the study of voting behaviour and illustrates its use by addressing the extent to which there was a ‘youthquake’ at the 2017 UK general election.
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