Political Choice in Britain

Political Choice in Britain

Author: Harold D. Clarke

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199266549

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Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections and democracy? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the explanatory power of rival sociological and 'individual rationality' models.


Elections and Voters in Britain

Elections and Voters in Britain

Author: D. T. Denver

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780333751923

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This title is a revised and extended replacement for the same author's text on Elections and Voting Behaviour in Britain in the same series. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of electoral politics today and of its evolution in the post war period. Two entirely new chapters focus on electoral reform and on the main theoretical approaches to the study of elections and voting.


Elections and Voters in Britain

Elections and Voters in Britain

Author: David Denver

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9780230241602

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How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in elections? Why do smaller parties get more support than they used to? How do the mass media influence political opinions? The authors examine these and other questions in the third edition of this popular text. They trace the evolution of the British electorate over the post-war period, and focus in particular on recent elections – from Labour's victories in the 2000s through to the hung parliament of 2010. As well as examining and explaining theories of party choice – including the view that voters' evaluations of government performance and party leaders are now the key determinants of election outcomes – the authors also devote separate chapters to turnout trends and patterns, electoral systems and the geography of party support. Campaigning, opinion polls and the mass media are also considered. Fully revised, the text incorporates the latest research on elections and voting behaviour, and includes analysis of recent trends and developments – including how 'new media' are affecting election campaigning.


Policy, Office, Or Votes?

Policy, Office, Or Votes?

Author: Wolfgang C. Müller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-08-28

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521637237

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This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.


Political Choice Matters

Political Choice Matters

Author: Geoffrey Evans

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 0199663998

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Studies of the influence of class and religion on politics often point to their gradual decline as a result of social change. Backed up by extensive evidence from 11 case studies and a 15-country pooled analysis, the editors argue instead that the supply of choices by parties influences the extent of class divisions: political choice matters.


Inheritance in Public Policy

Inheritance in Public Policy

Author: Richard Rose

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780300058772

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Although politicians promise innovation and change when they run for office, once elected they face inherited commitments to programs initiated by their predecessors, legacies that severely limit their freedom of choice. In this book, the authors examine the ways in which decisions made by past generations of administrators control policy-making in the present.


Austerity and Political Choice in Britain

Austerity and Political Choice in Britain

Author: H. Clarke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1137524936

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This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in Britain designed not only for students and scholars of British politics, but also for the interested reader. It looks at the record of the Coalition government both in terms of its plans and performance, particularly in relation to the economy, as the starting point for understanding what happened. The authors go on to examine the campaign during the run-up to polling day and to explain why people voted the way they did. They also take a close look at the various constituency battlegrounds across the country showing how and why voting patterns varied across Britain. Finally, they discuss the implications of the election outcome for the future of the party system and British politics more generally. This book provides important insights into an election which has permanently changed the political geography of Britain.


The Death of Consensus

The Death of Consensus

Author: Phil Tinline

Publisher: Hurst Publishers

Published: 2022-06-23

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1787388840

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Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.