Geoffrey Evans & Pippa Norris 
Critical Elections [PDF ebook] 
British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective

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.

Table des matières

Introduction – Pippa Norris and Geoffrey Evans

Understanding Electoral Change

PART ONE: NEW PATTERNS OF PARTY COMPETITION?

Party Policy and Ideology – Ian Budge

Reversing the 1950s?

New Politicians? Changes in Party Competition at Westminster – Pippa Norris

Party Members and Ideological Change – Paul Webb and David M Farrell

Party Loyalties – Ivor Crewe and Katarina Thomson

Dealignment or Realignment?

PART TWO: NEW SOCIAL ALIGNMENTS?

Class – Geoffrey Evans, Anthony Heath and Clive Payne

Labour as a Catch-All Party?

Race – Shamit Saggar and Anthony Heath

Towards a Multicultural Electorate?

Region – John Curtice and Alison Park

New Labour, New Geography?

Gender – Pippa Norris

A Gender-Generation Gap?

New Sources of Abstention? – Anthony Heath and Bridget Taylor

PART THREE: NEW ISSUE ALIGNMENTS?

The Impact of Left-Right Ideology – David Sanders

Europe – Geoffrey Evans

A New Electoral Cleavage?

Scotland – Paula Surridge et al

Constitutional Preferences and Voting Behaviour

Dynamic Representation in Britain – Mark Franklin and Christina Hughes

Conclusion – Pippa Norris and Geoffrey Evans

Was 1997 a Critical Election?

A propos de l’auteur

Pippa Norris is Director of the Democratic Governance group in the United Nations Development Programme in New York and the Maguire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University′s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Recent books include Sacred and Secular: Politics and Religion Worldwide (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004), Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (2004), and Driving Democratization: What Works (2006). Norris, who is a political scientist, has served as an expert consultant for many international bodies including the UN, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, International IDEA, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the UK Electoral Commission.