Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed-Class to Open Elections in Britain - Softcover

Rose, Richard; McAllister, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803997442 ISBN 13: 9780803997448

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

This innovative study examines the extent to which voting in Britain since 1959 has been determined by class. Rose and McAllister sum up a vast body of evidence to show that voters are influenced by current political events, by political principles as well as by social structure and by parental party identification.

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Review

`Rose and McAllister perform a valuable service in showing that no simple unicausal explanation of British electoral behavior is adequate and the utility of their own lifetime model is well demonstrated' -- Political Studies, Vol 35 No 1 March 1987

`to be recommended as a highly professional analysis of the decline in partisanship among the British electorate' -- Teaching Politics, May 1987

`an important political look at the way the competition for votes in Britain today is being fought.' -- British Public Opinion, May 1986

`excellent figure-packed analysis of many voting surveys made in Britain in the last 20 years...The argument is well-presented and...cogent.' -- New Society, 13 June 1986

`this is a book that can undoubtedly be profitably recommended to undergraduates' -- Parliamentary Affairs, Vol 40 No 2, April 1987

`The argument is clearly and forcefully put.' -- Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol 5 No 4, 1987

`I think this is an excellent book. It makes sense of a disparate series of electoral and political changes, and -- a rarity in books of this kind -- it does so clearly, so that it can be understood by the undergraduate and the layman.' -- Vernon Bogdanor, Brasenose College, Oxford

`The authoritative study of voting behaviour in the 1980s.' -- Dennis Kavanagh, Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham

`Richard Rose and Ian McAllister have exploded a myth, and not before time.' -- Julian Critchley MP, Daily Telegraph, 4th April 1986

`I have found it both interesting and a useful guide' -- Brian Walden, London Weekend Television

`An excellent book, which really tells almost all one would want to know about the British electorate. I was particularly impressed with their analysis of class and social structure.' -- Seymour Martin Lipset, Stanford University

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803997442
• ISBN 13: 9780803997448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192