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The referendum experience. Scotland 1979
Electoral Studies (1982), 1, 127-133 © Butterworths 1982
Book Notes
Edited by Bo SARLVIK
Electoral Studies will include, as a regular feature, brief notes on recent books that fall within the Journal's broadly defined field of interests: books dealing with particular elections as well as works on, for example, electoral systems and parties or party systems. In the first issue we have included an admittedly somewhat arbitrary selection of books published in 1980 and 1981. We are not offering a comprehensive bibliography of all the recent books in the field of electoral studies that could have deserved to be listed. However, in forthcoming issues we will make up for some of the omissions in this 1980 81 list and we will also endeavour to achieve a more complete coverage of new books of interest. The assistance of readers (and publishers) to ensure that relevant books are brought to our attention will be appreciated.
John Bochel, David Denver and Alan MacCartney (editors), The Referendum Experience. Scotland 1979, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1981), x i v + 2 1 0 pp. This book gives a detailed and comprehensive account of the referendum on 1 March 1979 on the Scotland Act. The book includes chapters on the local campaign and the coverage of the referendum in the mass media, as well as chapters on the prospects for constitutional reform and the lessons to be drawn from the way in which this referendum was arranged. (The Yes vote was 51.6 per cent but it did not amount to the required 40 per cent of all those eligible to vote and the proposal was therefore defeated.) As a complement to the main theme of the book, there is also a chapter on the referendum on the devolution issue in Wales (where the No side scored a decisive victory). j. M. Bochel and D. T. Denver, The Scottish District Elections 1977, (published by: Election Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Dundee, 1977), iv + 9 6 pp. Bochel and Denver have compiled and edited a complete a c c o u n ~ a t ward level of the local government district elections in Scotland in 1977. An introductory chapter contains summary statistics concerning the party division of the vote in the 1974 and 1977 local government elections.
Britain Votes 2: Parliamentary Election Results 1974-1979, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, 1980), xii+292 pp. This is one of a series of books which provides comprehensive detailed data on voting, 'swing' and turnout in general elections as well as by-elections. The series is intended to form a cumulative supplement to the previously published series British Parliamentary
Election Results 1832-1970. David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1979, (London: Macmillan, 1980), ix+443 pp. This is the most recent of the Nuffield studies of British parliamentary elections. The format is broadly the same as the one that has been adopted for the previous election books in this series. There are chapters on the background to the election, the parties' campaign
Book Notes
Edited by Bo SARLVIK
Electoral Studies will include, as a regular feature, brief notes on recent books that fall within the Journal's broadly defined field of interests: books dealing with particular elections as well as works on, for example, electoral systems and parties or party systems. In the first issue we have included an admittedly somewhat arbitrary selection of books published in 1980 and 1981. We are not offering a comprehensive bibliography of all the recent books in the field of electoral studies that could have deserved to be listed. However, in forthcoming issues we will make up for some of the omissions in this 1980 81 list and we will also endeavour to achieve a more complete coverage of new books of interest. The assistance of readers (and publishers) to ensure that relevant books are brought to our attention will be appreciated.
John Bochel, David Denver and Alan MacCartney (editors), The Referendum Experience. Scotland 1979, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1981), x i v + 2 1 0 pp. This book gives a detailed and comprehensive account of the referendum on 1 March 1979 on the Scotland Act. The book includes chapters on the local campaign and the coverage of the referendum in the mass media, as well as chapters on the prospects for constitutional reform and the lessons to be drawn from the way in which this referendum was arranged. (The Yes vote was 51.6 per cent but it did not amount to the required 40 per cent of all those eligible to vote and the proposal was therefore defeated.) As a complement to the main theme of the book, there is also a chapter on the referendum on the devolution issue in Wales (where the No side scored a decisive victory). j. M. Bochel and D. T. Denver, The Scottish District Elections 1977, (published by: Election Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Dundee, 1977), iv + 9 6 pp. Bochel and Denver have compiled and edited a complete a c c o u n ~ a t ward level of the local government district elections in Scotland in 1977. An introductory chapter contains summary statistics concerning the party division of the vote in the 1974 and 1977 local government elections.
Britain Votes 2: Parliamentary Election Results 1974-1979, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, 1980), xii+292 pp. This is one of a series of books which provides comprehensive detailed data on voting, 'swing' and turnout in general elections as well as by-elections. The series is intended to form a cumulative supplement to the previously published series British Parliamentary
Election Results 1832-1970. David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1979, (London: Macmillan, 1980), ix+443 pp. This is the most recent of the Nuffield studies of British parliamentary elections. The format is broadly the same as the one that has been adopted for the previous election books in this series. There are chapters on the background to the election, the parties' campaign