Synopses & Reviews
Combining analysis of the party campaigns with a longer-term assessment of the handling of key issues, the volume provides a definitive guide to how the election was won and lost. Academic analyses of social, political, and territorial factors in how the UK voted are complemented by outsider views and constituency profiles.
Synopsis
The 2005 UK General Election promised to be a hard-fought contest. Drawing upon contributions from a range of experts, this book explains the basis upon which the election was fought. Combining analysis of the party campaigns with a longer-term assessment of the handling of key issues, the volume provides a definitive guide to how the election was won and lost. Academic analyses of social, political and territorial factors in how the UK voted are complemented by outsider views and constituency profiles, in a rigorous, lively and accessible manner.
Synopsis
Combining analysis of the party campaigns with a longer-term assessment of the handling of key issues, the volume provides a definitive guide to how the election was won and lost. Academic analyses of social, political, and territorial factors in how the UK voted are complemented by outsider views and constituency profiles.
About the Author
Andrew Geddes is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield.
Jonathan Tonge is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at The University of Salford.
Table of Contents
Introduction--A.Geddes & J.Tonge * Results--D.Denver * Labour--S.Fielding * Conservatives--P.Cowley & J.Green * Liberal Democrats--E.D.Fieldhouse & D.Cutts * The Fringe Parties--R.Eatwell * The Candidate--T.Wright * Scotland--J.Mitchell * Wales--J.Bradbury * Northern Ireland--J.Tonge * Gender--S.Childs * Campaign Finance--J.Fisher * Internet & E-Democracy--S.Ward * Media Coverage--D.Wring * Economy--M.Smith * Delivery of Services--D.Richards * Foreign Policy and the War on Terror--G.Cameron * Europe--A.Geddes * Immigration and Asylum--A.Geddes * Conclusion--A.Geddes & J.Tonge