Britain Votes 2001

by Norris, Pippa

• ISBN13: 9780198510499
• ISBN10: 0198510497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is a stimulating, timely and authoritative analysis of the campaign and results in the 2001 British General Election. 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 is essential reading for all students, scholars and practitioners of British elections and voting behaviour, party politics, public opinion, political behaviour and political sociology.

Author Biography

Pippa Norris is Associate Director (Research) of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and she lectures in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.

Table of Contents

Apathetic Landslide: The 2001 British General Election	1	(25)
Pippa Norris
THE CAMPAIGN
Party Policy and Ideology: Still New Labour?	26	(17)
Judith Bara
Ian Budge
The Labour Campaign	43	(17)
Patrick Seyd
Conservatives in Opposition	60	(14)
Daniel Collings
Anthony Seldon
The Liberal Democrat Campaign	74	(12)
David Denver
The Opinion Polls: Still Biased to Labour	86	(16)
Ivor Crewe
Press and Broadcasting: 'Real Issues' and Real Coverage	102	(13)
David Deacon
Peter Golding
Michael Billig
Online Campaigning	115	(10)
Stephen Coleman
Campaign Finance: Elections Under New Rules	125	(12)
Justin Fisher
THE ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS
Scotland	137	(11)
Alice Brown
Wales	148	(13)
Richard Wyn Jones
Dafydd Trystan
Northern Ireland: Flanking Extremists Bite the Moderates and Emerge in Their Clothes	161	(18)
Paul Mitchell
Brendan O'Leary
Geoffrey Evans
Women and Politics: Minority Representation or Critical Mass?	179	(16)
Joni Lovenduski
The Race Card, Again	195	(16)
Shamit Saggar
Turnout	211	(14)
Paul Whiteley
Harold Clarke
David Sanders
Marianne Stewart
The Economy and Voting	225	(14)
David Sanders
Harold Clarke
Marianne Stewart
Paul Whiteley
The Electoral System: Biased to Blair?	239	(12)
John Curtice
The Commons: Mr Blair's Lapdog?	251	(14)
Philip Cowley
Index	265