Pattie, C.J. and Johnston, R.J. (2003) Hanging on the telephone? Doorstep and telephone canvassing at the British General Election of 1997. British Journal of Political Science, 33 (2). pp. 303-322. ISSN 0007-1234
Abstract
After years of neglect, a growing literature has reclaimed the constituency campaign as an important aspect of British elections. However, relatively little work has been done to disentangle which aspects of the local campaign are effective, and which are not. For much of the twentieth century, the mechanics of the local campaign were in essentials unchanged. But changing campaign technologies in the last decade offer new possibilities to party campaign managers.
The 1997 British general election was the first in which parties made extensive use of telephone canvassing as well as the more traditional doorstep canvass. This article provides a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of traditional versus telephone constituency campaigns. Traditional face-to-face canvassing had a statistically significant influence on the outcome of the 1997 general election. But the telephone canvass did not.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2003 Cambridge University Press. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Repository Assistant |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2006 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2014 22:32 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123403000139 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0007123403000139 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:1561 |