Irrelevant Elections?: The Quality of Local Democracy in BritainThis book, the most elaborate survey of its kind ever carried out in Britain, examines the controversy surrounding the political and electoral basis for local government. Drawing on extensive interviews with 1100 electors in November 1985 and follow-up interviews with 745 of them just after the local elections of 1986, Miller documents the many factors influencing voter participation and choice in local elections, and their implications for the continued existence of elective local democracy. |
Contents
The Problem of Irrelevant Elections | 1 |
Does Anybody Know or Care about Local Politics? 3335 | 13 |
Does Anybody Want Local Democracy? | 25 |
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1983 general election actual turn-out actual voting Alliance areas with elections asked attitudes autonomy bias Blame councils Borough British local government candidate cent amongst central control claim to vote coefficient Constituency Politics correlation council elections councillors county council democracy district council effect election choice election turn-out electorate fairly government elections Greater London Council influence intentions and behaviour interviews knowledge less local councils London Mary Horton measures metropolitan metropolitan counties mobilization factors national choice national issues national politics national preferences non-election areas Pairwise deletion panel parliamentary elections parliamentary preference parliamentary turn-out participation partisan partisanship party identification party preference patterns Personal characteristics Political Studies poll tax predictors psychological involvement questions ratepayers region relationship between turn-out respondents sample Satisfaction Scotland shire counties social survey Table TILEA trends turn-out behaviour turn-out intentions turn-out rates UNEM variables variation Very/fairly voters voting preferences Wolverhampton