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British Democracy at the Crossroads: Voting and Party Competition in the 1980s book cover

1st Edition

British Democracy at the Crossroads Voting and Party Competition in the 1980s

By Patrick Dunleavy, Christopher T. Husbands Copyright 1985
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

Those who keep a finger on the pulse of British democracy often announce that the patient is in a critical state. In the 1970s, the diagnosis most often came from the right, with dire warnings of the debilitating effects of social democracy. Since the 1979 election, it is those on the left who are pessimistic, pointing to an insidious authoritarianism that threatens democratic values.... Read more

Part 1: Theories and Models  1. Explaining Voting Behaviour  2. Explaining Party Competition  Part 2: Competing for Votes  3. The Run-Up, May 1979 to May 1983  4. The Election Campaign of May and June 1983  5. Voting, Party Images and the Media in 1983  Part 3. The Analysis of Voter’s Behaviour  6. The Social Bases of British Politics in 1983  7. Party Issues and Voter Attitudes, 1979 to 1983  8. The New Political Map of Britain, 1974 to 1983  9. Conclusion and Afterword  Appendix A: A Day-by-Day Chronology of the Major Events in the Campaign and the Results of Published Opinion Polls  Appendix B: Tables  Appendix C: The Sources of Data

Biography

Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at LSE. He is the Editor-in-Chief for LSE Press since autumn 2020. Dunleavy is a (founding) fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy. 

Christopher T. Husbands is Emeritus Reader in Sociology at LSE. He has carried out a considerable amount of research on racist political parties in several countries of western Europe and an assemblage of his articles on this subject covering the period from 1990 to 2008 was published in 2020 by Routledge in its series, Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right.

Review of the first publication:

'What sets [the book] apart is [the authors’] rejection of the party identification and issue voting approaches to the study of electoral behavior in favor of a "radical approach" focusing on the conflicts of interest produced by social inequality and ideological pervasiveness.'

— Jorgen S. Rasmussen, Political Science Quarterly

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