TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial scale and the neighbourhood effect
T2 - Multinomial models of voting at two recent British general elections
AU - Johnston, Ron
AU - Propper, Carol
AU - Burgess, Simon
AU - Sarker, Rebecca
AU - Bolster, Anne
AU - Jones, Kelvyn
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they operate simultaneously at more than one? Using the British Household Panel Study data, to which information on the characteristics of the population in the areas around each individual respondent's home have been added, this article finds significant differences in the propensity of individuals to vote either Conservative or Liberal Democrat rather than Labour at two neighbourhood levels as well as at the regional level.
AB - Few studies of the neighbourhood effect in British voting patterns have addressed the important issue of spatial scale: at what level do these effects operate (if any), and do they operate simultaneously at more than one? Using the British Household Panel Study data, to which information on the characteristics of the population in the areas around each individual respondent's home have been added, this article finds significant differences in the propensity of individuals to vote either Conservative or Liberal Democrat rather than Labour at two neighbourhood levels as well as at the regional level.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0007123405000268
DO - 10.1017/S0007123405000268
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:22544471542
SN - 0007-1234
VL - 35
SP - 487
EP - 514
JO - British Journal of Political Science
JF - British Journal of Political Science
IS - 3
ER -