Popular trust in social and political institutions is vital to the consolidation of democracy, but
in post-Communist Europe, distrust is the predicted legacy of Communist rule Contrary to …

This article examines social capital with particular reference to societies where distrust of
institutions has been the norm. The first section describes alternative relationships between …

Election outcomes are now, more than at any time in the past, determined by voters'
assessments of party leaders. However, despite its potential importance, little is known …

Multilevel models allow the quantitati e modelling of contextliality and heterogeneity. This
paper discusses how the approach can be used to analyse voting data obtained from …

Conventional political analysts and mainstream media accounts attribute substantial political
power to the elderly in the United States. This attribution of “senior power” is usually made in …

AN EXPLOSION OF COMPETITIVE ELECTIONS is one unobtrusive measure of the
transformation of Russian politics in the past half-dozen years. Russian elections have been …

The central issue I address in this study, is: Why do some people experience a great deal of
political mobility, others less, while some experience no political mobility at all? I make a …

The election of New Labour in 1997 closes a long chapter in British political history. At this
moment of dramatic change, this book combines an incisive thematic discussion of all the …

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 …

There is a tendency to assume that election campaigning at the local electorate level has
little or no impact on voters subject to the influence of highly centralised campaigns and an …