In common with most large-scale projects this book has incurred many debts upon the way.
The British General Election Study Campaign Panel 1997 was conducted by the Centre for …

Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations
and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the …

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 …

The conceptual framework in this book classifies maintaining elections as those where
patterns of party support display considerable continuity over time. Deviating elections are …

Existing spatial models of multiparty spatial competition have difficulty accounting for two
related features of party behavior: that parties typically propose divergent policy programs …

The Scottish devolution referendum of September 1997 was a rare event in British politics.
The question of Scotland's constitutional position has been a salient issue in Scottish politics …

In recent years a lively debate has emerged concerning the empirical status of the traditional
proximity spatial model versus a directional model of voter choice. The central reason for this …

During elections parties are inevitably the focus of electoral and party research since they
constitute the main representatives of the democratic struggle for votes and are highly visible …

It is widely held in the social sciences that behaviour patterns can be predicted from
knowledge of peoples' attitudes. Electoral studies in Great Britain largely accept this, but …

Most models of people's voting intentions suggest that the choice of party to support is a
function not only of external influences in the individual's home, neighbourhood, and …