Description
This volume combines current academic research on British elections, parties and public opinion with a detailed reference section including a chronology of the major political events of 1993, opinion polls and by-election results for 1993, as well as an up-to-date digest of party and media addresses and contacts.
Table of Contents
1: Reforming the Labour Party-Trade Union Link: An Assessment; 2: The Impact of Sectoral Cleavage and Public Spending Cuts on Labour Party/Trade Union Relations: The Social Contract Experience; 3: Between Principle, Pragmatism and Practicability: The Development of Conservative Party Policy Towards the Trade Unions in Opposition 1974–1979; 4: Party Support and Economic Perceptions in the UK, 1979–87: A Two-Level Approach; 5: Economic Evaluations and Election Outcomes: An Analysis of Alternative Forecasting Models; 6: The Influence of Local Campaigning on the Conservative Vote in the 1992 General Election; 7: The Changing British Voter Revisited: Patterns of Election Campaign Volatility Since 1964; 8: The Poll Tax, the Electoral Register, and the 1991 Census: An Update; 9: Liberal, Social Democrat or Liberal Democrat? Political Identity and British Centre Party Politics; 10: Labour Party Quotas for Women; 11: The Institutional Funding of British Political Parties; 12: British Political Parties and Public Attitudes Towards the European Community: Leading, Following or Getting Out of the Way?; 13: Learning More About Mass Political Behaviour: Beyond Dunleavy
