Most analyses of voting behavior in the United Kingdom treat the electorate as so many
atomized individuals whose decisions are made apart from any social context. With few …

In this article we examine the impact of the social characteristics of neighbourhoods on
voting behaviour. We aim to show that the immediate area in which people live is strongly …

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 …

Most study of British voting behaviour focuses on class and other compositional influences
on party choice, paying relatively little attention to contextual influences—spatial variations …

Many students of British voting patterns have tested for the existence of contextual effects,
which postulate that voters are influenced by events and people in their local milieux. One of …

There is a strong current in the social sciences at the present time arguing that the concept
of a separate urban phenomenon, defined spatially, is irrelevant to understanding society …

In electoral research the examination of the effect on voting behaviour of personal
interaction has frequently had a subsidiary place in investigation and an ambiguous status …

McAllister's argument is that the major influences on voters' decision-making are family
background, ascribed characteristics and political attitudes, and he contends that if these are …

Recent research has provided very strong circumstantial evidence of the existence of
neighbourhood effects in voting patterns at recent UK general elections. The usual reason …

It has long been thought that voting behavior is shaped not only by voters' own class and
family background, but by the social context in which they live. Whereas almost all previous …