Notes and Comments: Marginality and Turnout in General Elections in the 1970s

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 381-388

  Denver, David ^a   Hands, Gordon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84974269530     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: 14692112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123400004245     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. D. T. Denver and H. T. G. Hands, ‘Marginality and Turnout in British General Elections’. British Journal of Political Science, IV (1974), 17–35.
2. See Bo Särlvtk and Ivor Crewe. Decade of Dealignment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 333–6.
3. See Ivor Crewe, Anthony Fox and James Alt, ‘Non-Voting in British General Elections 1966-October 1974’, in Colin Crouch, ed. British Political Sociology Yearbook. Vol. 3 (London: Croom Helm, 1977). pp. 38–110.
4. On issue voting see Sarlvik and Crewe, Decade of Dealignment, Chap. 11. On tactical voting see Michael Steed, “The Results Analysed”, in David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of February 1974 (London: Macmillan, 1974).
5. The occupation and housing variables are derived from the 1971 census. Figures for individual constituencies are given in Butler and Kavanagh, The British General Election of February 1974, and David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of October 1974 (London: Macmillan, 1975). The percentage urban in each constituency was calculated directly from the 1971 census. Electorate figures were taken from House of Commons papers 478 of Session 1974/1975 and 374 of Session 1979/1980, published by HMSO.
6. Crewe, Fox and Alt, ‘Non-voting’.
7. Edward R. Tufte, ‘The Relationship between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems’. American Political Science Review, LXVII (1973), 540–54.
8. James G. March, ‘Party Legislative Representation as a Function of Election Results’. Public Opinion Quarterly, XXI (1957–58), 521–42. Several other authors have included United States elections in a comparison of the behaviour of electoral systems in various countries.
9. See. for example. Tufte. ‘The Relationship between Seats and Votes’
10. W. J. Linehan and P. A. Schrodt, ‘A New Test of the Cube Law’. Political Methodology, 4 (1977). 353–67
11. P. A. Schrodt, ‘A Statistical Study of the Cube Law in Five Electoral Systems’. Political Methodology, 7 (1981). 31–53.
12. Ralph H. Brookes, ‘Legislative Representation and Party Vote in New Zealand’, Public Opinion Quarterly, XXIII (1959). 288–91.See also Linehan and Schrodt: Schrodt; and Tufte. as cited in footnotes 1 and 2.
13. Terence H. Qualter, ‘Seats and Votes: An Application of the Cube Law to the Canadian Electoral System’, Canadian Journal of Political Science. 1 (1968), 336–44.
14. See also T. W. Casstevens and W. D. Morris, ‘The Cube Law and the Decomposed System’. Canadian Journal of Political Science, V (1972), 521–31;
15. Linehan and Schrodt, ‘A New Test of the Cube Law’.
16. Schrodt, ‘A Statistical Study of the Cube Law’.
17. H. Theil, ‘The Desired Political Entropy’, American Political Science Review, LXIII (1969), 521–5
18. D. Sankoff and K. Mellos, ‘The Swing Ratio and Game Theory’, American Political Science Review, LXVI (1972), 551–4, provide theoretical justifications for a relation of this type, although their arguments were dismissed by Tufte as being unconvincing.
19. R. G. Stanton, ‘A Result of MacMahon on Electoral Predictions’. Annals of Discrete Mathematics, VIII (1980). 163–7.