Elections and Voters in Britain

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.

ISBN 0230001580   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780230001589 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 411 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Series title Contemporary Political Studies Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780230001596 Publication date 24 Oct 2006   Height (mm) 222 Library of Congress 2006049245   Width (mm) 141 DEWEY 324.941085   Spine width (mm) 1 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 240

1		Studying British elections		1
2		Turnout : why people vote (or don't)		25
3		Party choice in the era of alignment, 1950-70		48
4		Dealignment and its consequences		66
5		Issues, the economy and party leaders : the emergence of 'valence politics'		94
6		Campaigning and the mass media		125
7		Electoral geography and electoral systems		154
8		Elections and party choice in contemporary Britain		180

Reviews of the first edition: 'For anyone studying elections and voters... this is an essential purchase...Denver observes that his text is not intended for academic colleagues...but I have a suspicion that many of his peers will be using the text to bring themselves up to speed regarding questions that they were too embarrassed to ask.' - Michael Thrasher, Parliamentary Affairs 'Excellent...Informative, concise and lucid; the best exposition of modern debates and explanations regarding voting behaviour.' - Jonathan Tonge, University of Salford, UK '...an overall summary of the work of specialists in electoral analysis...Recommended.' - M. Curtis, Choice 'This is a wonderful textbook that can be recommended without reservation as a core text for undergraduate...[and] as a very useful introductory text for postgraduate students...Denver has the enviable knack of finding just the right way to explain complex issues to the non-expert reader...' - John Bartle, Political Studies Review

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