TY - JOUR
T1 - Routes to party choice
T2 - Ideology, economic evaluations and voting at the 1997 British General Election
AU - Pattie, C. J.
AU - Johnston, R. J.
PY - 2001/5
Y1 - 2001/5
N2 - Most conventional accounts of voting behaviour fit single models to the entire electorate, implicitly assuming that all voters respond to the same sets of influences, and do so in similar ways. However, a growing body of research suggests that this approach may be misleading, and that distinct groups of voters approach politics, and the electoral decision, from different perspectives. The paper takes a disaggregated look at voting in the 1997 British General Election, dividing voters into different groups according to their formal educational qualifications. Results suggest that different groups of voters respond to different stimuli, depending on their education, and on the party they are voting for.
AB - Most conventional accounts of voting behaviour fit single models to the entire electorate, implicitly assuming that all voters respond to the same sets of influences, and do so in similar ways. However, a growing body of research suggests that this approach may be misleading, and that distinct groups of voters approach politics, and the electoral decision, from different perspectives. The paper takes a disaggregated look at voting in the 1997 British General Election, dividing voters into different groups according to their formal educational qualifications. Results suggest that different groups of voters respond to different stimuli, depending on their education, and on the party they are voting for.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035533250&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1011077921719
DO - 10.1023/A:1011077921719
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035533250
SN - 0304-4130
VL - 39
SP - 373
EP - 389
JO - European Journal of Political Research
JF - European Journal of Political Research
IS - 3
ER -