The objective of this thesis is to assess the role of geography in the construction of economic
attitudes and electoral behaviour in Britain during the 1980s and the early 1990s. Aggregate …

There has been considerable debate regarding the reasons for the observed spatial
variation in voting patterns at British general elections since the 1970s. Three separate …

Accounting for regional divides in British electoral behaviour during the 1980s has proved
controversial. Critics have argued that, once individual characteristics are taken into …

Much recent research on voting patterns in Great Britain has shown that economic concerns
strongly influence many electors: those who are optimistic about their own and the country's …

Recent debates in the analysis of electoral behaviour indicate the importance of local
economic conditions in accounting for the geography of the vote. Where local economies …

The economic and political contexts of Britain in the early 1990s meant that several tenets of
psephological conventional knowledge were put to the test at the 1992 general election …

This paper has two principal aims. First, to identify spatial structural effects, and second, to
evaluate alternative explanations of them. This will be attempted using survey data collected …

Controversy has surrounded the explanation of one of the most striking features of recent
British General Elections: the rapidly changing regional geography of the vote. While some …

PATTIE C. and JOHNSTON R.(1998) The role of regional context in voting: evidence from
the 1992 British General Election, Reg. Studies 32, 249±263. Recent British General …

Voting behaviour in the 1983 general election in Great Britain is linked to people's attitudes
and their perceptions of their personal economic situations, as well as to region. Analyses …