The concept of a neighbourhood effect within British voting patterns has largely been
discarded, because no data have been available for testing it at the appropriate spatial …

Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the
important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they …

Tests of the neighbourhood effect hypothesis at general elections in the United Kingdom
have largely been precluded by the absence of suitable xivsmall-scale data. This article …

Most studies of the neighbourhood effect and voting behaviour have to rely on ecological
data, usually at inappropriate scales for the assumed processes being investigated …

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 …

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 …

The increase in patterns of regional voting in Britain in the 1980s has stimulated much
scholarly debate about the emergence of a" North-South" political divide. One interpretation …

Since the 1950s there has been increased local variation in British voting patterns with the
Conservatives doing especially well in the South of England and rural areas, and Labour …

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 …

There has been considerable debate in recent work on voting patterns in Great Britain
regarding the importance of regional effects: are these “real” or are they simply statistical …