Crosses on the Ballot: Patterns of British Voter Alignment Since 1885

by Kenneth D. Wald

Book Overview

In an exploration of mass voter alignments in Great Britain, Kenneth D. Wald illuminates the electoral consequences of major social divisions and the relationship between social structure and partisanship. He establishes that the transition from religion to social class as the chief influence on British voting occurred after World War I, as most scholars have presumed, rather than before the War, as a number of recent revisionist discussions have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691613516
• ISBN13: 9780691613512
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"