Political Communications
The General Election Campaign of 2005
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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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Measuring British Public Opinion on the Monarchy and the Royal Family
This chapter assesses public opinion, as measured through opinion polls since the inter-war period, and makes a distinction between monarchy as institution, and royal family—permitting insights into individual...
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Religion
None of the available sources of statistics on the numbers belonging to or following Britain’s various religions and denominations are entirely satisfactory. No census in Great Britain between 1851 and 2001 in...
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Referendums
Historically, were not used in Britain except to settle purely local issues, but a new precedent was set by the decision to hold a national referendum on British membership of the European Community in 1975....
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Interest Groups, Pressure Groups, Etc
The distinction between ‘think-tanks,’ research organisations and pressure groups or interest groups is often a tenuous one; what all the organisations listed in this section have in common is that they attemp...
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International Affairs
Main Territories Under British Rule Since 1900
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Governments
The following list contains the names of all those who have held paid and political ministerial office since 1900; it should be read in conjunction with the (pp. XX–XXX), which gives full names for those lis...
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Parties
In 1965 the Conservative Party introduced a procedure for the leader to be elected by a ballot of M.P.s.
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Parliamentary Elections
Information on elections to the European Parliament can be found in the Europe section, pp. xxx–xxx, on elections to the , National Assembly of Wales, Northern Ireland Parliament and in the Local Gover...
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Constitution and Rights
other countries internationally, the United Kingdom does not have a ‘written constitution.’
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Justice and Law Enforcement
Poor Prisoners’ Defence Act 1903. This was the first Act which made provision for legal aid, which was limited to trials on indictment.
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Investigation and Regulation
investigation of problems can take a number of forms: , Committees and special or committees. This chapter does not deal with purely Conferences
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The Public Sector
Economic activity by the state—other than the core activity undertaken by the —takes a range of forms which defy easy categorisation. Whereas a public corporation (or a limited company in which the state is a...
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The Media
For most of the twentieth century, the newspapers listed below printed in London only, except as otherwise indicated. (From the mid-1980s, new technology made printing in many different centres the norm rather...
