ESRC Programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change

Papers from the 2005 EPOP Annual Conference
University of Essex
September 9 - 11, 2005 

The British Election Study I - Technical Reports and Preliminary Findings

Political Choice in Britain 2005: The First BES Report

Bob Andersen (McGill) and Geoff Evans (Oxford) 
'The effect of party leaders on voting'

Judith Bara (Queen Mary and Westfield) 
'The 2005 manifestos: A sense of deja vu?'

Sarah Birch (Essex) 
'Explaining Confidence in the Conduct of Elections'

Heinz Brandenburg (Aberdeen) 
'Party Strategy and Media Bias A Quantitative Analysis of the 2005 UK election campaign'

Rosie Campbell (London) and Kristi Winters (Essex) 
'Hearts or Minds?  Men, Women and Candidate Evaluations in the 2005 General Election.'  (Slides)  

Sarah Childs (Bristol) and Rosie Campbell (London) 
'Feminising British Politics: Sex and Gender in the 2005 General Election' (Slides)

Phil Cowley and Mark Stuart (Nottingham) 
'Being policed?  Or just pleasing themselves?  Electoral rewards and punishment for legislative behaviour in an era of localised campaigning effects: the case of the UK in 2005' (Slides)

D Dorling (Sheffield) 
'Partisan alignment' (Slides)

Justin Fisher (Brunel) 
'Constituency Campaigning at the 2005 General Election?'

Steve Fisher (Oxford) and John Curtice (Strathclyde) 
'Tactical unwind or a new kind of anti-Blairite tactical voting?'

Ivor Gaber (Goldsmiths) 
‘The Autistic Campaign: the parties, the media and the voters’

Rachel Gibson and Stephen Ward (Australia and Sydney) 
'Parties and the virtual campaign: the 2005 election online' (Slides)

Jane Green (Oxford)  
'Partisan preferences and party loyalty: A challenge to theories of party position'

Lisa Harrison (University West of England) 'Electoral Strategies and Female Candidacy: Comparing Trends in the 2005 and 2001 General Elections'

Lisa Harrison & Dean McSweeney (UWE) 'Persuasion in Local Campaigns: a case study of the South West'

Sara Hobolt (Oxford) and Robert Klemmensen (Southern Denmark)
"Why Labour Didn't Listen? Party Competition and Issue Responsiveness in the Recent British and U.S. Elections"

Nigel Jackson (Centre for Public Communication Research, Bournemouth University) 
‘Banking Online: the use of the Internet by political parties to build relationships with voters’

R Johnston and R Harris (Bristol) 
'Another geography of turnout: respondents and non-respondents to the BES'

Adrian Kavanagh, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth 
'How would the result have differed with a PR-STV electoral system?' (Appendix)

David Mena Aleman (University of the Americas-Puebla, Mexico) 
'Can the BBC compete to deliver 'more than just what consumers want'?'

Anthony Mughan (Ohio State University) 
'The conditionality of leader effects' 

K Nagatomi  (Sheffield) 
'Independent success in local executive elections: analysis of the results of the 2005 English mayoral elections'. (Slides)

Pippa Norris (Harvard) 
'Did the Media Matter? Persuasion, Priming and Mobilization Effects in the 2005 British General Election Campaign'  

Steven Perkins (Ofcom) 
'Viewers and Voters: Attitudes to television coverage of the 2005 General Election'  

Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Plymouth) 
'The electoral consequences of postal voting at the 2005 general election'

David Rossiter, Charles Pattie (Sheffield) and R Johnston (Bristol)  
'Biased again: translating a 3-point lead in votes to a 25-point lead in seats' 

Maggie Scammell (LSE) 
'The press: still for Labour, despite Blair' (Tables)

Richard Scullion (Bournemouth) 
'Investigating the meaning of electoral choice through a 'Consumer as choice maker' lens. Case studies from The British General Election of 2005'

James Stimson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
'Policy Sentiment in the UK: Reflections on the 2005 Elections in Longitudinal Perspective'

Jon Tonge and Jocelyn Evans (Salford) 
'The onward march of Paisleyism or a triumph of unionist apathy? Turnout and voting for the  Democratic Unionist Party in the 2005 Westminster Election in Northern Ireland '

Paul Whiteley (Essex)
 'Can we Forecast the Forecasters? An Evaluation of Rival Forecasting Models of the 2005 General Election in Britain'

EPOP is the largest specialist group of the Political Studies Association of the UK, bringing together people interested in the study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. It has over 200 members, including media commentators, leading opinion pollsters and national party officials as well as academics. The group convenor is Justin Fisher (Brunel University).

EPOP Conference Programme

The provisional Conference Programme is on-line here

Bookings and Registration

On-site registration will be opened at 11:00 p.m. in the Marquee.

Booking forms to be sent by email may be downloaded here: [Word] 
If you have questions or difficulty opening the booking form, please contact Kristi Winters.