British Elections and Parties Review

Contents: Political Awareness and Heterogeneity in Models of Voting: Some Evidence from the British Election Studies John Bartle. The Missing Tories in Opinion Polls: Silent, Forgetful or Lost? John Curtice, Nick Sparrow and John Turner. Anchors Aweigh: Variations in Strength of Party Identification and in Socio-political Attitudes among the British Electorate 1991-94 Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie. Class and Nation in England and Scotland Anthony Heath, Nan dirk di Graaf and Ariana Need. Crooked Margins and Marginal Seats James Cornford and Daniel Dorling. A Question of Interaction: Using Logistic Regression to Examine Geographic Effects on British Voting Behaviour Andrew Russell. Discourses of Modernization: Gaitskell, Blair and the Reform of Clause IV Michael Kenny and Martin J Smith. Voting Behaviour, The Economy and the Mass Media: Dependency, Consonance and Priming as a Route to Theoretical and Empirical Integration Neil T Gavin. Error Correction Models of Party Support: The Case of New Labour Harold D Clarke, Marianne C Stewart and Paul Whiteley. The Enhancement of Leadership Power: The Labour Party and the Impact of Political Communications Richard Heffernan and James Stanyer. From the Europe of Nations to the European Nation? Attitudes of French Gaullist and Centrist Parliamentarians Agnes Alexandre and Xavier Jardin. The Conservative Party, Electoral Strategy and Public Opinion Polling, 1945-1964 Andrew Taylor.

This volume features key political issues for 1990s Britain: the reform of the Labour party; the use of opinion polls; the impact of the media; European integration; Scotland and regional trends; and the bases of party support.

Contemporary British History- "This book provides an invaluable source of up-to-date information on parties, elections and voting behavious in Britain, drawn from contemporary cutting-edge research...The four editors are to be congratulated on producing the very model of an edited, research based book...This is a llively and scholarly testimony to the continuing vitality of the EPOP research community and its role in ur developing understanding of contemporary history, providing an invaluable source of reference for scholars and research students alike."Parliamentary Afairs -" the standard of papers is high and there is a useful compendium of data and further reading at the back."Political Studies- "As in previous volumes, these articles are followed by an invaluable reference section. This remains a "must buy" for all those with even a passing interest in elections or party politics."Contemporary Review- " This should prove an invaluable source for future students of British political life at the end of the twentieth century"Contemporary Review"This series has now become an indispensible part of our understanding of modern British politics

David Denver, Justin Fisher, Steve Ludlam, Charles Pattie