| List of Figures | xi | ||
| List of Tables | xiii | ||
| List of Abbreviations | xix | ||
| 1. | Models of Voting | 1 | |
| Sociological Models | 4 | ||
| Responsive Voter Models | 11 | ||
| From 'Normal' to Responsive Voters | 19 | ||
| To Vote or Not to Vote | 26 | ||
| The Contemporary Pattern of Voting | 30 | ||
| Conclusions | 39 | ||
| 2. | Bringing Geography In | 40 | |
| Context and Scale | 43 | ||
| Bringing Context In | 46 | ||
| Conclusions | 62 | ||
| 3. | The Geography of Voting: Regions, Places, and Neighbourhoods | 63 | |
| The Problem of Data | 63 | ||
| The Aggregate Pattern: Variations by Constituency | 68 | ||
| Combining Constituency and Survey Data | 73 | ||
| A North-South Divide in Voting Patterns in the 1980s? | 82 | ||
| Moving Down a Scale—or Two | 90 | ||
| Conclusions | 104 | ||
| 4. | Talking Together and Voting Together | 106 | |
| Talking Together and Voting Together? | 106 | ||
| Measuring the Conversation Effect Directly | 108 | ||
| Who Talks Politics? | 111 | ||
| The Impact of Political Conversation | 127 | ||
| Political Conversation and Attitude Change | 139 | ||
| Conclusions | 143 | ||
| 5. | The Local Economy and the Local Voter | 144 | |
| It's the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting | 144 | ||
| Measuring the Economic Vote: Which Economy? | 147 | ||
| Economic Evaluations and the Economic Vote | 152 | ||
| Government Responsibility and the Economic Vote | 155 | ||
| Endogenous Economic Voting? | 164 | ||
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Publication information:
Book title: Putting Voters in Their Place: Geography and Elections in Great Britain.
Contributors: Ron Johnston - Author, Charles Pattie - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2006.
Page number: ix.
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