Political Choice in Britain

Clarke, Harold D.; Sanders, David; Stewart, Marianne C.; Whiteley, Paul

doi:10.1093/019924488x.003.0001

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“…Since at least the beginning of the 1960s traditional class cleavages eroded and partisan dealignment delivered a more volatile electorate (Clarke et al, 2004). This electorate increasingly votes on the basis of personal economic calculations (Heath et al, 2001) and life style choices (Hooghe et al, 2002).…”

Section: T He Elect Ion Cam Paign Pr Ofessionalismmentioning

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The professionals speak: Practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning

Tenscher

Koc-Michalska

Lilleker

et al. 2015

European Journal of Communication

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International audienceFaced with some fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political and media environment, political parties in post-industrialized democracies have started to initiate substantial transformations of both their organizational structures and communicative practices. Those innovations, described as professionalization, become most obvious during election campaigns. In recent times, the number of empirical studies measuring the degree of political parties’ campaign professionalism has grown. They have relied on a broad spectrum of indicators derived from theory which have not been tested for their validity. For the first time, we put these indicators to a ‘reality check’ by asking top-ranked party secretaries and campaign managers in 12 European countries to offer their perceptions of professional election campaigning. Furthermore, we investigate whether any differences in understanding professionalism among party campaign practitioners can be explained by macro (country) and meso (party) factors. By and large, our results confirm the validity of most indicators applied in empirical studies on campaign professionalism so far. There are some party- and country-related differences in assessing campaign professionalism too, but the influence of most factors on practitioners’ evaluations is weak. Therefore, we conclude that largely there is a far-reaching European Union-wide common understanding of professional election campaigning

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Section: T He Elect Ion Cam Paign Pr Ofessionalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The professionals speak: Practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning

Tenscher

Koc-Michalska

Lilleker

et al. 2015

European Journal of Communication

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“…But at the same time, reliable rates for even fine-grained tables can remain distinctive and point us to quite nuanced and detailed findings which we would not otherwise uncover. The value of this approach has been illustrated using a relatively large (in terms of cells) multivariate table -though much smaller than are implicitly used in comparable tables in similar studies (as in Clarke et al, 2004Clarke et al, , 2009Whiteley et al, 2013) -regarding voting choices at the 2015 British general election. Although not designed to make a substantive contribution to British electoral studies, the results clearly illustrate the greater detail that the proposed approach provides relative to traditional procedures.…”

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Uncovering interactions in multivariate contingency tables: a multi-level modelling exploratory approach

Jones

Johnston

Manley

2016

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Much quantitative behavioural social science – a great deal of it exploratory in nature – involves the analysis of multivariate contingency tables, usually deploying logistic binomial and multinomial regression models with no exploration of interaction effects, despite arguments that this should be a crucial element of the analysis. This article builds on suggestions that the search for interaction effects should employ multi-level modelling strategies and outlines a procedure for modelling patterns in data sets with small numbers of observations in many, if not all, of their multivariate contingency table cells; all expected cells must be non-zero. The procedure produces precision-weighted estimates of the observed:expected rates for each and every cell, together with associated Bayesian credible intervals, and is illustrated using a large survey data set relating voting (and abstaining) at the 2015 UK general election to age, sex and educational qualifications. Crucially, while fine detail can be explored in the analysis, unreliable rates for particular subgroups are automatically down-weighted to what is happening generally. The identification of reliable differential rates then allows a simpler hybrid model that captures the main trends to be fitted and interpreted.

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“…Labour voters are generally seen as more committed to state provided services than their Conservative or Liberal Democrat counterparts (Clarke et al, 2004). The descriptive statistics and data sources for all our variables are listed in Table 2.…”

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Public–private partnerships, management capacity and public service efficiency

Andrews

Entwistle

2015

Policy &Amp; Politics

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By working with business, public organisations are assumed to benefit from: a more contestable procurement process; access to private sector entrepreneurialism and the realisation of previously untapped scale economies. Nevertheless, realisation of these benefits may be contingent upon an expansion of management capacity to cope with vastly increased transaction costs. We examine the relationship between a commitment to public-private partnerships, management capacity and the productive efficiency of a set of English local authorities. We find that only those governments with very strong management capacity are able to realise productive efficiency gains from publicprivate partnership. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Political Choice in Britain

Cited by 99 publications

References 160 publications

The professionals speak: Practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning

The professionals speak: Practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning

Uncovering interactions in multivariate contingency tables: a multi-level modelling exploratory approach

Public–private partnerships, management capacity and public service efficiency

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