This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of
increasing electoral volatility in British elections, and the role of electoral shocks in the …

This article provides a detailed set of coding rules for disaggregating electoral volatility into
two components: volatility caused by new party entry and old party exit, and volatility caused …

In common with most large-scale projects this book has incurred many debts-intellectual,
administrative and financial-upon the way. The British Election Study 1997 was conducted …

This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in Britain designed not only for
students and scholars of British politics, but also for the interested reader. It looks at the …

Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates the political economy of
party support for British political parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997 …

The collapse of the Irish'Celtic Tiger'economy, in the wake of a banking disaster, provoked a
joint EU/IMF rescue plan in late 2010. The election that followed saw Europe's most …

This fifth edition of Elections and Voters in Britain has been a long time forthcoming. The
normal rhythm was to update the book every four or five years, after each general election …

We analyze the remarkable differences in the electoral success of new parties and compare
the determinants of electoral volatility attributable to new versus established parties. We …

Electorates appear to be adrift. Across Western Europe electoral volatility is increasing. But
are volatile voters whimsical? Do they behave randomly, like drift sand, or are they …

This dataset provides data on electoral volatility and its internal components in
parliamentary elections (lower house) in 20 countries of Western Europe for the period 1945 …