British Democracy at the Crossroads - Voting and Party Competition in the 1980s

British Democracy at the Crossroads (originally published in 1985) breaks the mould of conventional political science by marrying a study of voting in the 1983 election (using a specially commissioned survey) with a detailed presentation of the context in which the election took place.

List of contents

Part 1: Theories and Models 1. Explaining Voting Behaviour 2. Explaining Party Competition Part 2: Competing for Votes 3. The Run-Up, May 1979 to May 1983 4. The Election Campaign of May and June 1983 5. Voting, Party Images and the Media in 1983 Part 3. The Analysis of Voter’s Behaviour 6. The Social Bases of British Politics in 1983 7. Party Issues and Voter Attitudes, 1979 to 1983 8. The New Political Map of Britain, 1974 to 1983 9. Conclusion and Afterword Appendix A: A Day-by-Day Chronology of the Major Events in the Campaign and the Results of Published Opinion Polls Appendix B: Tables Appendix C: The Sources of Data

About the author

Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at LSE. He is the Editor-in-Chief for LSE Press since autumn 2020. Dunleavy is a (founding) fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Christopher T. Husbands is Emeritus Reader in Sociology at LSE. He has carried out a considerable amount of research on racist political parties in several countries of western Europe and an assemblage of his articles on this subject covering the period from 1990 to 2008 was published in 2020 by Routledge in its series, Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right.

Summary

British Democracy at the Crossroads (originally published in 1985) breaks the mould of conventional political science by marrying a study of voting in the 1983 election (using a specially commissioned survey) with a detailed presentation of the context in which the election took place.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Dunleavy, Dunleavy Patrick, Christopher T. Husbands, Husbands Christopher T.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032875521
• ISBN: 978-1-032-87552-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Elections & referenda, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1980 to c 1989, Elections and referenda / suffrage