Overview
- A systematically revised and updated edition of the leading text in the field
- Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of electoral politics
- Revised and updated to incorporate the latest data from the 2019 General Election
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in elections? Have age and education replaced class as the social basis for voting? Are elections now ‘presidentialised’, with voters simply choosing between party leaders? What role do the media, new and old, play in all of this? The authors examine these and other questions in the fourth edition of this popular text. The core of the text is devoted to examining and explaining theories of party choice, including the debate about whether voters are driven more by issues and ideology or simply by which party and leader looks least likely to make a mess of things in office. The authors also devote separate chapters to turnout trends and patterns, the media, electoral systems, the geography of party support, and – new to this edition – referendums. Fully revised and with detailed analysis of the 2019 election and the electoral fallout of Brexit, the text incorporates the latest research on elections and voting behaviour, andincludes analysis of recent trends and developments – such as the effect of digital media on electoral politics and where recent misfires leave the opinion polls.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
David Denver is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK.
​Rob Johns is Professor of Politics in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elections and Voters in Britain
Authors: David Denver, Robert Johns
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86492-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86491-0Published: 28 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86492-7Published: 27 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 330
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Electoral Politics, Political Communication, Political History, Political Leadership