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12. Electoral Behaviour

This chapter examines electoral behaviour, focusing on how ordinary citizens form political opinions, vote, and participate in elections. It explores the methods scholars use to study public opinion, including surveys and regional comparisons, and explains key theoretical approaches—rationalist, sociological, psychological, and institutional—that ...
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The Limits of Thatcherism and Electoral Behaviour

1989
The restoration of the Conservative fortunes after the abject performances in February and October 1974 has been one of the successes of Thatcherism in the context of electoral politics. Having lost four elections out of five between 1964 and 1974, the Conservatives have since won three consecutive victories.
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Gender, feminism and electoral behaviour in Britain

Electoral Studies, 1997
Abstract Over the last 20 years, public attitudes towards the question of women's rights and feminist issues has emerged as an important and controversial political issue within British society. Despite this increase in controversy, however, the impact of feminist attitudes in predicting electoral outcomes has not been assessed.
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Generational differences in electoral behaviour

Electoral Studies, 2012
van der Brug, W., Kritzinger, S.
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Electoral Systems and Voting Behaviour

1997
In this chapter we shall focus on some of the most important aspects of elections in Western Europe. First, we shall examine the wide range of electoral rules under which people vote across the continent, and then we shall show that these different electoral systems can have quite pronounced consequences for the governance of a country.
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Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour

Abstract Drawing on individual-level survey data from cross-sectional studies conducted between 1991 and 2019, this chapter examines, from analysis grounded in what is referred to as the social group model of voting, how social-structural factors—including age-related group memberships, social class, place of residence, and religious ...
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Electoral policy and the determinants of electoral behaviour in Croatia (1990-2000)

Central European political science review, 2001
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Šiber, Ivan, Kasapović, Mirjana
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Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe

2000
1. Introduction David Broughton and Hans-Martien ten Napel 2. The political culture of secularisation: European trends and comparative perspectives Brian Girvin 3. Reading the runes: the religious factor in Scandinavian electoral politics John Madeley 4. A confessional cleavage resurrected? The denominational vote in Britain David Seawright 5. The ever-
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Electoral behaviour in multilevel systems

2021
Jean-François Daoust, André Blais
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Variations in Electoral Behaviour in the United Kingdom

1982
How British is electoral behaviour in Britain? What are the similarities and differences between electoral behaviour in the component parts of the United Kingdom? The answers depend upon the component parts we select, upon the time when we measure the differences, and, not least, on our criteria for deciding which votes are equivalent to each other.
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