This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral
behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this …

This important and authoritative new series arises out of the seminal ESRC Whitehall
Programme and seeks to fill the enormous gaps in our knowledge of the key actors and …

I propose and test an informational theory of endogenous election timing. I assume leaders
have more accurate estimates of future outcomes than citizens. The prospect of declining …

Constituency (local) campaigning in British general elections has been transformed over the
past ten years or so. Firstly, national party headquarters have taken an increasingly large …

There is a continuing debate among political scientists and commentators about the
relevance of local party campaigns in influencing the vote in British general elections. We …

This book is the first in the new series The Labour governments, 1964-70 and concentrates
on Britain's domestic policy during Harold Wilson's tenure as Prime Minister. The book …

Constituency campaigning is an important—though till recently relatively understudied—
aspect of electioneering in Great Britain. The paper analyses new evidence of constituency …

The old Japanese single-party system collapsed in 1993, but a new system has not yet fully
evolved. Following the most significant party reform in Japanese history, this book analyses …

The Scottish National Party (SNP) articulates the demands of a nationalist movement whose
antecedents stretch back at least to the beginning of the eighteenth century but which has …

As Chapter 1 in this volume suggests, there have been important recent changes in the style
of election campaigning–amounting broadly to a process of'modernization'–and authors …