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Critical Elections
British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective

Edited by:

Geoffrey Evans - Nuffield College, UK
Pippa Norris - Harvard University, USA

June 1999 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Did Labour's landslide victory in 1997 mark a critical watershed in British party politics? Did the radical break with 18 years of Conservative rule reflect a fundamental change in the social and ideological basis of British voting behaviour?

Critical Elections brings together leading scholars of parties, elections and voting behaviour to provide the first systematic overview of long-term change in British electoral politics.

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Pippa Norris and Geoffrey Evans

Introduction

Understanding Electoral Change

PART ONE: NEW PATTERNS OF PARTY COMPETITION?

Ian Budge

Party Policy and Ideology

Reversing the 1950s?

Pippa Norris

New Politicians? Changes in Party Competition at Westminster

Paul Webb and David M Farrell

Party Members and Ideological Change

Ivor Crewe and Katarina Thomson

Party Loyalties

Dealignment or Realignment?

PART TWO: NEW SOCIAL ALIGNMENTS?

Geoffrey Evans, Anthony Heath and Clive Payne

Class

Labour as a Catch-All Party?

Shamit Saggar and Anthony Heath

Race

Towards a Multicultural Electorate?

John Curtice and Alison Park

Region

New Labour, New Geography?

Pippa Norris

Gender

A Gender-Generation Gap?

Anthony Heath and Bridget Taylor

New Sources of Abstention?

PART THREE: NEW ISSUE ALIGNMENTS?

David Sanders

The Impact of Left-Right Ideology

Geoffrey Evans

Europe

A New Electoral Cleavage?

Paula Surridge et al

Scotland

Constitutional Preferences and Voting Behaviour

Mark Franklin and Christina Hughes

Dynamic Representation in Britain

Pippa Norris and Geoffrey Evans

Conclusion

Was 1997 a Critical Election?

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