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Canadian journal of political science
ElectoralStudies (1983), 2.'2, 186-189
Guide to Journal Articles Edited by Bo SARcvt~ (Abstracts prepared by DAVID BROUGHTON, University of Essex)
Clive Bean, 'From Confusion to Confusion. The 1981 General Election in New Zealand', Politics, 17:2, November 1982, pp. 108-20. In net terms, very little happened and what did happen was rife with anomalies. The Muldoon era has stamped a unique mark on New Zealand politics but it is far from clear as yet what form any new alignment in the future might take. A. John Berrigan, 'Antecedents of Realignments and the Case for Secular Realignment in Denmark', Scandinavian PoliticalStudies, 5:3, 1982, pp. 261-81. Empirical evidence is presented to demonstrate that observed changes in the partisan distribution of the Danish vote between 1973-1977 resulted from a gradual redistribution of partisan affiliation with origins in the 1950s. The analysis leads to the conclusion that a secular, not a critical, realignment occurred in Denmark during the 1970s. Donald E. Blake, 'The Consistency of Inconsistency: Party Identification in Federal and Provincial Politics', Canadian Journal of PoliticalScience, XV:4, December 1982, pp. 691 710. This article examines inconsistent partisanship in Canada: party identifications which are different in federal and provincial politics. John Bochel and David Denver, 'Candidate Selection in the Labour Party: What the Selectors Seek', British Journal of PoliticalScience, 13:1, January 1983, pp. 45-69. This paper explores the preferences of candidate selectors in the Labour Party by means of interviews of nearly 500 people attending selection conferences between 1976-1979 in Scotland and seats in the north of England. Relatively few selectors are at present solely motivated by ideology. Any attempt to change the ideological balance of the PLP by means of local selection policy will be a relatively slow process. Jeffrey L. Brudney, 'An Elite View of the Polls', Public Opinion Quarterly, 46:4, Winter 1982, pp. 503-9. This paper is based on a survey of delegates elected to the 1980 state conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties of Oklahoma. The paper investigates the attitudes of the delegates in two areas: trust in the results of election polls and perception of their possible impact on voters. William Claggett, Jeffrey Loesch, W. Phillips Shively and Ronald Snell, 'Political Leadership and the Development of Political Cleavages: Imperial Germany, 1871-1912', American Journal of Political Science, 26:4, November 1982, pp. 643-63. The authors examine the German system of political cleavages as it evolved between 1871 and 1912 and give special attention to the relative importance of (1) social and grass roots sources of the system and (2) the role of national political leadership in shaping it. The conclusion is that both are involved in developing the system through an interactive process. 0261-3794/83/02/0186-04/$03.00 © 1983 Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd
Guide to Journal Articles Edited by Bo SARcvt~ (Abstracts prepared by DAVID BROUGHTON, University of Essex)
Clive Bean, 'From Confusion to Confusion. The 1981 General Election in New Zealand', Politics, 17:2, November 1982, pp. 108-20. In net terms, very little happened and what did happen was rife with anomalies. The Muldoon era has stamped a unique mark on New Zealand politics but it is far from clear as yet what form any new alignment in the future might take. A. John Berrigan, 'Antecedents of Realignments and the Case for Secular Realignment in Denmark', Scandinavian PoliticalStudies, 5:3, 1982, pp. 261-81. Empirical evidence is presented to demonstrate that observed changes in the partisan distribution of the Danish vote between 1973-1977 resulted from a gradual redistribution of partisan affiliation with origins in the 1950s. The analysis leads to the conclusion that a secular, not a critical, realignment occurred in Denmark during the 1970s. Donald E. Blake, 'The Consistency of Inconsistency: Party Identification in Federal and Provincial Politics', Canadian Journal of PoliticalScience, XV:4, December 1982, pp. 691 710. This article examines inconsistent partisanship in Canada: party identifications which are different in federal and provincial politics. John Bochel and David Denver, 'Candidate Selection in the Labour Party: What the Selectors Seek', British Journal of PoliticalScience, 13:1, January 1983, pp. 45-69. This paper explores the preferences of candidate selectors in the Labour Party by means of interviews of nearly 500 people attending selection conferences between 1976-1979 in Scotland and seats in the north of England. Relatively few selectors are at present solely motivated by ideology. Any attempt to change the ideological balance of the PLP by means of local selection policy will be a relatively slow process. Jeffrey L. Brudney, 'An Elite View of the Polls', Public Opinion Quarterly, 46:4, Winter 1982, pp. 503-9. This paper is based on a survey of delegates elected to the 1980 state conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties of Oklahoma. The paper investigates the attitudes of the delegates in two areas: trust in the results of election polls and perception of their possible impact on voters. William Claggett, Jeffrey Loesch, W. Phillips Shively and Ronald Snell, 'Political Leadership and the Development of Political Cleavages: Imperial Germany, 1871-1912', American Journal of Political Science, 26:4, November 1982, pp. 643-63. The authors examine the German system of political cleavages as it evolved between 1871 and 1912 and give special attention to the relative importance of (1) social and grass roots sources of the system and (2) the role of national political leadership in shaping it. The conclusion is that both are involved in developing the system through an interactive process. 0261-3794/83/02/0186-04/$03.00 © 1983 Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd