Anthony Heath's 1994-95 Annual Research Report

Anthony Heath (Official Fellow) continues as Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST). With Bridget Taylor he has been working on CREST’s panel study, which is following up respondents to the 1992 British Election Study; the main focus this year has been on understanding mid-term protest. He has also been working, with Garrett Fitzmaurice and Peter Clifford (Jesus) as part of the ALCD programme, on the problems of panel attrition.

In addition he has been working with Geoff Evans, Clive Payne and David Weakliem (Connecticut) on the analysis of trends in class voting; with Dorren McMahon (University College, Dublin) on the education and occupation of ethnic minorities; with Nan Dirk de Graaf (Nijmegen) on the class identity of husbands and wives; and with Jean Martin (OPCS) on methodological issues in attitude research.

Publications

(with Sin Yi Cheung) ‘After Care: The Education and Occupation of Adults Who Have Been in Care’, Oxford Review of Education, 20, 1994.

(with M Colton) ‘Attainment and Behaviour of Childlren in Care and at Home’, Oxford Review of Education, 20, 1994.

(with Nan Dirk de Graaf and Paul Nieubeerta) ‘Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and Contextual Effects’, American Journal of Sociology, 100, 1994.

(with G Evans) ‘Tactical Voting: Concepts, Measurement and Findings’, British Journal of Political Science, 24, 1994.

(with Ioan Marginean and Geoffrey Evans) ‘Clasa sociala si politica in Europa de est’, Revista de Certari Sociale, 2, 1994.

(with M Savage) ‘Middle-Class Politics’, R Jowell, J Curtice, L Brook and D Arendt (eds.) British Social Attitudes: the 11th Report. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994.

(with G Evans) ‘The Measurement of Left-Right and Libertarian-Authoritarian Values: A Comparison of Balanced and Unbalanced Scales’, Quality and Quantity, 29, 1995.

(with G Evans and C Payne) ‘Modelling the Class-Party Relationship in Britain, 1964-1992’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 158, 1995.

(with David Weakliem) ‘Regional Differences in Class Dealignment: A Comment on Johnston and Pattie’, Political Geography, 14, 1995.

‘What Has Happened to the Extreme Right in Britain?’, Res Publica, 37, 1995.