Critical Elections :British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective

Publication series :1

Author: Evans   Geoffrey;Norris   Pippa  

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year: 1999

E-ISBN: 9780857026309

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761960195

Subject: D Political and Legal

Keyword: 政治、法律

Language: ENG

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`An excellent account of how there came to be a landslide New Labour victory after almost two decades of uninterrupted Conservative Government, with expert analyses on the interrelated themes of party, social influences and issue alignments' - Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde

Did Labour's landslide victory in 1997 mark a critical watershed in British party politics? Did the radical break with 18 years of Conservative rule reflect a fundamental change in the social and ideological basis of British voting behaviour? Critical Elections brings together leading scholars of parties, elections and voting behaviour to provide the first systematic overview of long-term change in British electoral politics.

Chapter

Part I - New Patterns of Party Competition

1 - Party Policy and Ideology: Reversing the 1950s?

2 - New Politicians? Changes in Party Competition at Westminster

3 - Party Members and Ideological Change

4 - Party Loyalties: Dealignment or Realignment?

Part II - New Social Alignments?

5 - Class: Labour as a Catch-All Party

6 - Race: Towards a Multicultural Electorate?

7 - Region: New Labour, New Geography?

8 - Gender: A Gender-Generation Gap?

9 - New Sources of Abstention?

Part III - New Issue Alignments

10 - The Impact of Left-Right Ideology

11 - Europe: A New Electoral Cleavage?

12 - Scotland: Constitutional Preferences and Voting Behaviour

13 - Dynamic Representation in Britain

14 - Conclusion: Was 1997 a Critical Election?

Technical Appendix

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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