How Parties have Adapted to Change – Cadre Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Mass Membership Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Catch-All Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Cartel Party
Theories of Party Systems -The Frozen Party System
Theories of Party Systems – The Downs Model
Theories of Party Systems – Satori
How do voters decide who to vote for
How do voters decide who to vote for – The Michigan Studies
How do voters decide who to vote for – Social Class
How do voters decide who to vote for – Partisan Dealignment
Electoral Geography of Great Britain
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Conservatives
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Labour
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Liberals
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Plaid Cymru
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – SNP
Electoral Geography in Great Britain – UKIP
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Green Party
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Respect
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – BNP
General Election Campaign – Choosing the Date
General Election Campaign – The Media
General Election Campaigns – Three types of Media
General Election Campaigns – Opinion Polls
General Election Campaigns – turn-out
Why did people vote the way they did – Social Class
Why did people vote the way they did – Housing Tenure
Why did people vote the way they did – Age
Why did people vote the way they did – Gender
The BBC has a clip of the Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, during the 1950 election campaign, about to go into a large public meeting and stopped by a BBC television reporter who asks him,
“What would you like to say to the British people, Mr Attlee.”
Attlee, who would never use two words when one would do, says,
“Nothing”and passes on into the meeting.
Today, our Prime Minister would not even have got such a friendly question from the media, let alone have failed to answer it.
The whole character of elections has changed over this period and Britain has changed from a two party to a multi-party system.
Elections and Parliaments are dominated by Political Parties. There are hardly any Independent MPs across European countries, or even in other parts of the world.