Political Communications
The General Election Campaign of 2005
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Roger Mortimore
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How People Vote, and Why Some Don’t
The British voter is subjected to a heavy barrage of propaganda from all the major parties — and to occasional salvoes from minor groups and independents — during election campaigns, and to a lesser degree at ...
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How People Vote, and Why Some Don’t
The British voter is subjected to a heavy barrage of propaganda from all the major parties — and to occasional salvoes from minor groups and independents — during election campaigns, and to a lesser degree at ...
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Constituencies and the Electoral System
The House of Commons has at present 659 members, each of whom is the representative of a single-member constituency.1 The origin of the different constituencies is diverse. Some constituency names, particularly t...
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The Campaign in the Constituencies
The announcement by the Prime Minister of an impending general election precipitates a flurry of activity in constituency and local party branches throughout the country. Emergency meetings are hastily convene...
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Constituencies and the Electoral System
The House of Commons has at present 659 members, each of whom is the representative of a single-member constituency.1 The origin of the different constituencies is diverse. Some constituency names, particularly t...
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The Campaign in the Constituencies
The announcement by the Prime Minister of an impending general election precipitates a flurry of activity in constituency and local party branches throughout the country. Emergency meetings are hastily convene...
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Opinion Polls
Apart from television, the most important new factor which has influenced elections in the post-war period has been the public opinion polls. No politician worth his salt is now ignorant of the latest state of...
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Opinion Polls
Apart from television, the most important new factor which has influenced elections in the post-war period has been the public opinion polls. No politician worth his salt is now ignorant of the latest state of...
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Political Parties: National
Political parties are the lifeblood of electoral politics in Britain, as in almost every other democracy in the world. The overwhelming majority of Parliamentary candidates are party adherents, and it is an ex...
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Candidates
No special qualifi cations whatever are legally required of Parliamentary candidates; the only positive requirements are virtually those which also apply to voters — that is, to be a British or Commonwealth su...
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Political Parties: National
Political parties are the lifeblood of electoral politics in Britain, as in almost every other democracy in the world. The overwhelming majority of Parliamentary candidates are party adherents, and it is an ex...
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Candidates
No special qualifications whatever are legally required of Parliamentary candidates; the only positive requirements are virtually those which also apply to voters — that is, to be a British or Commonwealth sub...
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The Public and the Polls
The pollsters’ chapters in this volume are concerned with the answers to two related questions. What methodology will best achieve our professional function of accurately measuring the opinions and predicting ...
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Looking Through the Other End of the Microscope: How the Public Experienced the General Election Campaign
While other chapters in this volume mostly consider the actors in the 2005 General Election, examining how they set about trying to communicate with the voting public or why they did so in the way they did, th...
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Political Communication in Britain
The Leader Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election
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The Campaign As Experienced by the Voters in the Battleground Seats
This chapter explores the election campaign from the point of view of the voters in some of the key Labour-Conservative battleground constituencies, where the eventual outcome of the election was likely to be ...
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Conclusion: Time for Change?
Some general elections are quickly forgotten, mere milestones along the way of the country’s political odyssey. Others can be turning points — and not necessarily only those that result in a change of governme...
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Were the Polls Wrong about the Lib Dems All Along?
Opinion polls in modern elections serve several purposes. From the amount of attention that tends to be paid after the election to analysing the accuracy of the final ‘predictions’, it might seem that this rat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Asymmetric Political Image Effects and the Logic of Negative Campaigning
Political marketing campaigns frequently use negative campaigning approaches, in which a candidate’s advertising criticizes an opponent, but the practice is controversial. Negative advertising in the 2012 US P...
