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
Britain has moved from a two party system in 1951, when Churchill offered to absorb the Liberals into the Conservative Party as they were so weak, to a complicated multi-party system.
Parties are also now required to register before they can stand in elections and there are controls on the amount that can be spent in the national general election campaign and regulations about where funds come from (though election spending was always limited in Britain, especially compared with the US, and controlled at the constituency level – the Conservatives won the marginal seat of Ayr in 1987 spending £300 on the campaign, whereas Rockefeller running for Senator in West Virginia bought every boy in the state a baseball)
There have been significant changes in the electoral geography of party support.
These have occurred for three reasons:-
1. Changes in social patterns because of social mobility and because of movements of population</p
2. Changes in the extent to which parties are able to appeal to different groups of the population
3. New parties competing against the established parties in a constituency
