BRITISH ELECTIONS AND PARTIES YEARBOOK 1994
BRITISH ELECTIONS AND PARTIES YEARBOOK 1994
EDITED BY
David Broughton
David M. Farrell
David Denver
Colin Rallings
First published 1995 by
FRANK CASS & CO. LTD.
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D. Broughton, D. Farrell, D. Denver, C. Rallings
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CONTENTS
Paul Webb
Steve Ludlam
Peter Dorey
David Sanders and Simon Price
Harold D. Clarke and Marianne C. Stewart
Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley
David M. Farrell, Ian McAllister and David Broughton
Iain McLean and Jeremy Smith
Lynn G. Bennie, John Curtice and Wolfgang Rdig
Pippa Norris
Justin Fisher
Richard S. Flickinger
Fiona Devine
This is the fourth volume of the British Elections and Parties Yearbook. This year has seen a number of changes, not least the switch in publishers from Harvester Wheatsheaf to Frank Cass. There are also more articles than in previous years, a grand total of thirteen in this volume. A third development on previous years is that we have cast our net wider for the chapters. In previous years, most of the chapters have been revised versions of papers previously given at the annual conference of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) specialist group of the Political Studies Association (PSA) of the United Kingdom. The most recent conference of the group took place at the University of Lancaster in September 1993. For this volume, however, seven of the thirteen articles were specially commissioned, a clear indication of the vitality and commitment of the EPOP group since its establishment in spring 1990.
Given the above changes, we should also stress the aspects of continuity with the previous volumes of the Yearbook. We remain committed to publishing high quality original research and reference material relating to the fields of elections, public opinion and parties in Britain. In particular, we aim to provide a focus for research in areas which are simultaneously intellectually diverse and organizationally fragmented. A number of different journals publish material on the above topics. Our main focus remains Britain as a case study, but also Britain in a comparative context.
We are grateful to the PSA for continuing support of EPOPs activities, further details of which can be obtained from any of the editors of this volume.
We should also record our thanks to our authors who coped admirably with the tight restrictions on space which we had to impose, particularly those whose chapters originally had more tables and diagrams than we were able to include here.
David Broughton David M. Farrell David Denver Colin Rallings
April 1994
Lynn G. Bennie is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Paisley. She has written extensively on the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats and is currently completing a study of Green politics in Scotland.
David Broughton is Lecturer in Politics in the School of European Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has recently completed a book on Politics and Public Opinion Polling in Britain and is now working on a study of the European Working Class and European Labour Movements in the Twentieth Century (with Stefan Berger).
Harold D. Clarke is Regents Professor of Political Science, University of North Texas. His research focuses on voting, elections and the political economy of party support in Anglo-American democracies. His articles have appeared in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics. His most recent book (with Allan Kornberg) is Citizens and Community: Political Support in a Representative Democracy.
John Curtice is Senior Lecturer in Government and Director of the Social Statistics Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST). He is co-author of How Britain Votes and Understanding Political Change, and co-editor of Labours Last Chance?
David Denver is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He is the author of Elections and Voting Behaviour in Britain and is currently completing a study of local level campaigning in the 1992 general election.
Fiona Devine is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Affluent Workers Revisited: Privatism and the Working Class. Her research interests lie in the field of class analysis.
Peter Dorey is Lecturer in Politics in the School of European Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He is currently completing a book entitled Trade Unions and Politics in Britain. He has recently completed two other books: The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions and British Politics since 1945.
David M. Farrell is Jean Monnet Lecturer in the Department of Government, University of Manchester. He is the co-editor (with Shaun Bowler) of Electoral Strategies and Political Marketing. He has also published widely on parties and elections. He is co-editor (with Ian Holliday and Kenneth Janda) of the new journal, Party Politics, the first issue of which will be published in early 1995.
Justin Fisher is Lecturer in Politics and Government at London Guildhall University. He has written a series of articles on political finance in Britain and is currently writing a book on British political parties.
Richard S. Flickinger is Professor of Political Science at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He is a Senior Faculty Associate of the Mershon Center at Ohio State University. He is the author of several papers on public policy in Western Europe and the United States, including articles in Peace and Change, Policy Studies Review, West European Politics and in Donley Studlar and Jerrold Waltman (eds) Policy Economy: Public Policies in the United States and Britain.
Steve Ludlam is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published on the British labour movement, economic policy, the British Conservative Party and the European Union.
Ian McAllister has been Professor and Head of the Department of Politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy since 1985. He has written extensively on public opinion and political behaviour. His most recent books are The Loyalties of Voters: A Lifetime Learning Model and Political Behaviour: Citizens, Parties and Elites in Australia. He is currently working on public opinion and political change in the former communist states of eastern Europe.
