Voters, Parties, and Leaders: The Social Fabric of British Politics

1959 General Election administrative class Admittedly areas attitudes become big business Britain bureaucracy businessmen candidates cent Co-operative party connexions Conservative associations Conservative party consider constituency constituency Labour parties contacts economic elected establishment examine executive exist extent firms floating voters Glossop hierarchy higher civil servants higher civil service industrial influence inner circle interest groups Labour electors Labour party large number leaders leadership left-wing less Liberal lower middle class main parties majority manual workers membership ministers Moreover National Union occupations officers oligarchies organizations Parliament parliamentary Labour party parliamentary party perhaps political parties politicians population posts probably professional professions proportion public schools questions rank-and-file regional repre representation representatives result ruling circle seats social background social class social groups social structure Socialists tion tive trade unionists trade unions traditional upper middle class views vote Labour voting behaviour white-collar workers whole working-class