Print Price: $35.95

Format:
Paperback
250 pp.
Graphs and tables, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198510499

Publication date:
December 2001

Imprint: OUP UK

Britain Votes 2001

Edited by Pippa Norris

Series : Hansard Society Series in Politics and Government, 10

Britain Votes 2001 provides a stimulating, timely and authoratative analysis of the campaign and results in the 2001 British General Election.

Part I provides insights into the strategies and tactics adopted by the major parties, news coverage by television and newspapers, the digital campaign on the Internet, patterns of election spending, and the dynamics of the opinion polls leading up to polling day.

Part II slices and dissects the outcome including the results in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the pattern of voting by race and gender, levels of turnout, economic voting, the workings of the electoral system and the outcome for the new Parliament.

Produced by a well-known team of experts on British elections and voting behaviour, the book is written in a vivid and accessible style.

The book will be essential reading for all students, scholars, and practitioners of British elections and voting behaviour, party politics, public opinion, political behaviour and political sociology.

Readership : Primary readership is academics and graduate students working in British politics and electoral studies. Also of interest to, and accessible as secondary text, undergraduates, journalists and practitioners working in British politics.

Reviews

• `Britain Votes 2001 presents a solid lineup of leading scholars and a thorough review of the core issues of the election. . . While, as one would expect, there is a great deal of overlap among the volumes on the 2001 election, Britain Votes 2001 has the advantage of offering a fairly comprehensive selection of subjects. . . Britain Votes 2001 is a 'must have' for those wanting a complete library on Labour's second landslide.'
  Terrence Casey, Democratization