文档介绍：THE BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION OF 1987
The British General
Election of 1987
David Butler
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
Dennis Kavanagh
Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-0-333-46793-0 ISBN 978-1-349-19143-7 (eBook)
DOI -1-349-19143-7
© David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, 1988
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First published in the United States of America in 1988
ISBN 978-0-312-01870-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Butler, David, 1924-
The British general election of 1987/by David Butler and Dennis
Kavanagh.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-312-01870-2: $ (est.)
1. Great Britain. Parliament-Elections, 1987. 2. Elections•
-Great Britain. 3. Great Britain-Politics and government-1979-
I. Kavanagh, Dennis. II. Title.
1988
'0858--dc19 87-32314
CIP
Contents
List of Tables vii
Illustrations x
Preface xiii
I 1983--1987
1 Background 3
2 Conservative 25
3 Labour 47
4 Alliance 74
II THE ELECTION NATIONALLY
5 Campaign 89
6 Polls 124
7 Broadcasting Martin Harrison 139
8 Press Martin Harrop 163
III THE ELECTION LOCALLY
9 Candidates Byron Criddle 191
10 Constituencies 211
IV THE ASSESSMENT
11 Retrospect 241
12 Conclusion 265
V APPENDICES
1 Statistics 283
2 Analysis John Curtice and Michael Steed 316
Bibliography 363
Index 368
v
List of Tables
Support for Thatcherite beliefs about politics in
1983 and 1987 6
Economic and political indicators, 1983-87 18-19
Privatisation of state-owned corporations,
1983-87 20
16 Westminster by-elections, Great Britain,
1983-87 21
Local election changes, 1983-87 23
Local by-elections, 1983-87 23