Performance Politics And The British Voter

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ISBN 13 : 9781107198173
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance Politics and the British Voter written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text suggests that performance politics is at the heart of contemporary democracy, with voters forming judgments about how well competing parties and leaders perform on important issues. Given the high stakes and uncertainty involved, voters rely heavily on partisan cues and party leader images as guides to electoral choice.

Author : Harold D. Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874440
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance Politics and the British Voter written by Harold D. Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that judgment of party competence is at the heart of electoral choice in contemporary Britain.

Author : Harold D. Clarke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199266549
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Choice in Britain written by Harold D. Clarke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Denver
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 0230369847
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections and Voters in Britain written by David Denver and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Harold D. Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191639257
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Choice in Britain written by Harold D. Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections, political parties, and democracy? This important book by four leading scholars addresses these questions. Using a wealth of data from the 1964-2001 British election studies, monthly Gallup polls, and numerous other national surveys conducted over the past four decades, the authors test the explanatory power of rival sociological and individual rationality models of turnout and party choice. Analyses of party choice endorse a valence politics model that challenges the long-dominant social class model. British voters make their political choices by evaluating the performance of parties and party leaders in economic and other important policy areas. Although these evaluations may be products of events and conditions that occur long before an election campaign officially begins, parties' national and local campaign activities are also influential. Consistent with the valence politics model, partisan attachments display individual- and aggregate-level dynamics that reflect ongoing judgements about the managerial abilities of parties and their leaders. A general incentives model provides the best explanation of turnout. Calculations of the costs and influence-discounted benefits of voting and sense of civic duty are key variables in this model. Significantly, the decline in turnout in recent elections does not reflect more general negative trends in public attitudes about the political system. Voters judge the performance of British democracy in much the same way as they evaluate its parties and politicians. Support at all levels of the system is a renewable resource, but one that must be renewed. A command of theory, data, models, and method ensure that Political Choice in Britain will be a major resource for all those interested in elections, voting, and democracy.

Author : H. Clarke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137524936
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austerity and Political Choice in Britain written by H. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Whiteley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110743419X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain written by Paul Whiteley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates the political economy of party support for British political parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997. Using valence politics models of electoral choice and marshalling an unprecedented wealth of survey data collected in the British Election Study's monthly Continuous Monitoring Surveys, the authors trace forces affecting support for New Labour during its thirteen years in office. They then study how the recessionary economy has influenced the dynamics of party support since the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition came to power in May 2010 and factors that shaped voting in Britain's May 2011 national referendum on changing the electoral system. Placing Britain in comparative perspective with cross-national survey data gathered in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, the authors investigate how the economic crisis has affected support for incumbent governments and democratic politics in over twenty European countries.

Author : Roger Awan-Scully
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785903632
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of British Party Politics? written by Roger Awan-Scully and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred, and why it matters. Electoral choices across Britain became increasingly differentiated along national lines over much of the last half-century. In 2017, for the second general election in a row, four different parties came first in the UK's four nations. UK voters are increasingly faced with general election campaigns that are largely disconnected from each other. At the same time, voters acquire much of their information about the election from news-media based in London that display little understanding of these national distinctions. The UK continues to elect representatives to a single parliament. But the shared debates and sets of choices that tie a political community together are increasingly absent. Separate national political arenas and agendas still have to interact but in some respects the House of Commons increasingly resembles the European Parliament – whose members are democratically chosen but from a disconnected series of separate national electoral contests. This is deeply problematic for the long-term unity and integrity of the UK.

Author : David Denver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780230207288
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections and Voters in Britain. Contemporary Political Studies Series written by David Denver and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of this popular text incorporates material from the 2005 general election and discusses the latest electoral research. The book provides a lucid account of the development of electoral politics in Britain over the post war period but focuses particularly on recent elections making full use of British Election Study (BES) survey data. Expert guidance is provided on the main theoretical approaches to the study of voting behaviour and the common methods of analysis used.

Author : D. T. Denver
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections and Voters in Britain written by D. T. Denver and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume incorporates material from the 2005 general election and discusses the electoral research. It provides an account of the development of electoral politics in Britain over the post war period, using the British Election Study (BES) survey data.