Understanding political alignments in contemporary Britain: do localities matter?

Savage, Mike

doi:10.1016/0260-9827(87)90034-6

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“…This echoes similar arguments made in relation to the geographical analysis of modern elections (Johnston 1986b;Savage 1987;Agnew 1990). The earlier discussion does offer some clues in this respect.…”

Section: Philosophy and Historical Electoral Geographysupporting

confidence: 86%

Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography

Dunham

1997

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This paper calls f i r the incorporation of pre-I872 (and especially early Victorian) elections into the electoral geography research agenda. It argues that early Victorian elections provide a rare opportunity to examine actual voting behaviour at the individual level and also constitute a valid focus of enquiy in their own right. The paper concludes by discussing some of the principal methodological implications of an historical electoral geography.

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Section: Philosophy and Historical Electoral Geographysupporting

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Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography

Dunham

1997

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“…Statistical analysis cannot provide the answer. In any case even if there is a material link between the accumulation potential of housing and voting behaviour, it is likely to take effect at the scale of local labour markets or even of intraurban housing sub-markets (Savage, 1987). This is the scale at which housing prices, and potential gains (as with council houses sales) actually operate.…”

Section: Housing Tenure and Some Current Confusionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

The use and abuse of housing tenure

Barlow

Duncan

1988

Housing Studies

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This paper examines the concept of housing tenure' and its use in housing research. We argue that this concept is in fact misused. This occurs in two ways. First, it is frequently assumed that taxonomic collectives of tenure like 'owner-occupation' necessarily correspond with significant concrete categories such as housing quality or social status. Second, abstract categories like 'housing class' or 'consumption cleavages' are identified with specific tenures. In both cases 'tenure' is taken well beyond the relations of occupancy and ownership which the term actually describes, and in both cases this leads to severe loss of information and of analytical sensitivity. The paper challenges the use of tenure as some overall shorthand and ends by considering some alternative 'shorthands' which better describe the social relations of housing.

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“…In Britain, during the 1980s, the support for the two major political parties took on a distinctly regionalized character. The Labour Party was dominant in the relatively depressed labour and housing markets of Wales, the North and Scotland, with the Conservative Party dominant in the (relatively) booming London and the Southeast (Savage 1987). This changed somewhat in the 1990s as it became evident to the Labour Party, in the guise of ‘New Labour’, that in order to regain power their programme had to be modified in a more private‐sector friendly direction in order to carry some of the constituencies in the Southeast.…”

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Globalization and the politics of local and regional development: the question of convergenc

Cox

2004

Trans Inst British Geog

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Globalization, and the increased exposure to international competition that it has supposedly induced, has led to expectations of institutional convergence in, among other things, local and regional development policy and the politics surrounding it. There have been changes in the United Kingdom, but not of the decentralizing, neo‐liberalizing form anticipated. A comparison of the British with the very different, highly decentralized, American case seeks to shed light on this. Emphasis is placed on both the strongly embedded nature of institutions and on misunderstandings about the strength of the forces of globalization.

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Understanding political alignments in contemporary Britain: do localities matter?

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography

Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography

The use and abuse of housing tenure

Globalization and the politics of local and regional development: the question of convergenc

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