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Modern constituency electioneering : local campaigning in the 1992 general election
- Title
- Modern constituency electioneering : local campaigning in the 1992 general election / David Denver and Gordon Hands.
- Author
- Denver, D. T.
- Publication
- London ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Hands, Gordon.
- Description
- x, 342 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- In this first major study of grassroots election campaigning for thirty years, David Denver and Gordon Hands survey the evolution of campaigning over the past century and describe in detail how the parties organised their constituency campaigns in the 1992 election. The study - funded by the Economic & Social Research Council - examines and evaluates the campaign techniques that are now employed, and looks in detail at the role of local media and national party organisations.
- Basing their analysis mainly on a large-scale postal survey of election agents in Britain, the authors have been able to construct a quantitative measure of the strength of the constituency campaigns mounted by the different parties across the country, and to use this measure to assess the effects of local campaigning.
- Subject
- Great Britain. Parliament > Elections, 1992
- Great Britain. Parliament
- Grande-Bretagne. House of Commons > Elections (1992)
- 1992
- Political campaigns > Great Britain
- Elections > Great Britain
- Political parties > Great Britain
- Elections
- Political campaigns
- Political parties
- Campagnes électorales > Grande-Bretagne > 20e siècle
- Great Britain
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Development of Campaigning in Britain -- A Brief History of Campaigning -- The Aims of Campaigning -- Studying Constituency Campaigning -- The Nuffield Studies--The Local Campaign as Ritual -- Kavanagh--The Functions of Constituency Campaigning -- Holt and Turner--Describing a Classic Mobilising Campaign -- The Impact of Constituency Campaigning -- Local Campaigning in the 1990s -- Variations in Constituency Campaigns -- Constituency Campaigning in 1992 -- Patterns of Constituency Campaigning: Preparation, Objectives, Resources and Organisation -- Campaign Organisation -- Influences on Campaign Preparation and Organisation -- Patterns of Constituency Campaigning: Persuading, Mobilising and Getting Out the Vote -- Informing and Persuading Activities -- Mobilising Activities -- Campaign Effort -- What Did Candidates Do? -- Influences on Campaign Activities -- The Role of National and Regional Party Organisations -- Central and Regional Organisation and Strategy -- The Contribution of the Professionals -- The Local Media and Local Campaigns -- The Local Press -- Regional Television -- Local Radio -- Conclusion: The Impact of the Local Media -- Five Constituency Campaigns in 1992 -- Woodspring by Mike Hodkinson and Stephen Williams -- Cunninghame South by Robert Pyper -- North East Fife by John Bochel -- Glanford and Scunthorpe by Terence Karran -- Bristol North West by Mike Hodkinson and Stephen Williams -- Analysing the Impact of Constituency Campaigns -- Measuring and Comparing the Strength of Campaigns.
- ISBN
- 0714647896
- 9780714647890
- 0714643459
- 9780714643458
- LCCN
- 97019213
- OCLC
- ocm36798207
- 36798207
- SCSB-507055
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library