Civic Attitudes and Engagement in Modern Britain

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 616-633+ii+iv

  Pattie, Charles ^a   Seyd, Patrick ^a   Whiteley, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 10744225761     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsg106     Document Type: Review

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1. The Citizen Audit is a stratified, clustered, random sample of adults in Great Britain aged 18 or over. Respondents were selected in three stages: at the first stage, 101 local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland were selected. For the face-to-face part of the survey three postal districts were selected randomly in each authority, and then in each postal district 20 households were selected at random. For the mail survey, 238 names and addresses in each local authority were selected randomly. Field work took place between September 2000 and May 2001. 3,140 face-to-face interviews were completed (a response rate of 62%) and 9,023 completed postal questionnaires were returned (a response rate of 38%). In this article the data from the face-to-face survey only are used.
2. For a comprehensive report of the Citizen Audit findings see C. Pattie, P. Seyd and P. Whiteley, Atomised Citizens: Democracy and Participation in Contemporary Britain, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). See also C. Pattie, P. Seyd and P. Whiteley, 'Citizenship and Civic Engagement: Attitudes and Behaviour', Political Studies (forthcoming).
3. For a comprehensive report of the Citizen Audit findings see C. Pattie, P. Seyd and P. Whiteley, Atomised Citizens: Democracy and Participation in Contemporary Britain, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). See also C. Pattie, P. Seyd and P. Whiteley, 'Citizenship and Civic Engagement: Attitudes and Behaviour', Political Studies (forthcoming).
4. See C. Bromley and J. Curtice, 'Where Have All The Voters Gone?' in A. Park, J. Curtice, K. Thomson, L. Jarvis and C. Bromley (eds), British Social Attitudes: 19th Report, Sage, 2002; H. Clarke, P. Whiteley, M. Stewart and D. Sanders, Political Choice in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2004.
5. See C. Bromley and J. Curtice, 'Where Have All The Voters Gone?' in A. Park, J. Curtice, K. Thomson, L. Jarvis and C. Bromley (eds), British Social Attitudes: 19th Report, Sage, 2002; H. Clarke, P. Whiteley, M. Stewart and D. Sanders, Political Choice in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2004.
6. The timing of the fieldwork meant that in 'the previous 12 months' only local government elections had occurred.
7. These theories are extensively analysed and tested in Pattie, Seyd and Whiteley (forthcoming), Chapters 5 and 6.
8. See S. Verba, K. Schlozmann and H. Brady, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics, Harvard University Press, 1995.
9. Robert Putnam attributes the decline of civic voluntarism in the United States to the spread of television. See 'Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America', 28, Political Science and Politics, 1995.
10. See J. Curtice and R. Jowell, 'The Sceptical Electorate' in R. Jowell, J. Curtice, A. Park, L. Brook and D. Ahrendt (eds), British Social Attitudes: 12th Report, Dartmouth, 1995.
11. G. Parry, G. Moyser and N. Day, Political Participation and Democracy in Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
12. Ibid., p. 47.
13. Robert Putnam (ed.), Democracies in flux, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 412.