Anthony Heath's 1995-96 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 and Iain McLean he has been working on CREST’s panel study, which is following respondents throughout the current electoral cycle. A number of conference papers have been written, using this data, on the mid-term European and local elections.

He has also been awarded a major grant by the ESRC to conduct the next British Election Study. This will consist of the usual post-election survey, continuing the series begun by David Butler and Donald Stokes after the 1964 election, together with a panel study investigating the effects of the election campaign. For the first time, there will also be an investigation of electoral registration.

In addition he has been working with Sin Yi Cheung on education and occupational attainment, with Michael Sobel and Nan Dirk de Graaf on ordered logit models of class identity, with Jean Martin (Office for National Statistics) on period, life-cycle and cohort effects, and with Bruno Cautres on class, religion and politics in France and Britain.

Publications

(with I McLean and B Taylor) ‘Were the 1994 Euro- and Local Elections in Britain Really Second Order? Evidence from the British Election Panel Study’, in D Farrell, D Broughton, D Denver and J Fisher (eds.) British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1996. London: Frank Cass, 1996

(with Mike Savage) ‘Political Alignments within the Middle Classes, 1972-89’, in T Butler and M Savage (eds.) Social Change and the Middle Classes. London: UCL Press, 1995.

(with Chris Rootes) ‘Differences of Degree: Attitudes towards Universities’, in R Jowell et al (eds.) British Social Attitudes: the Twelfth Report. Aldershot: Gower, 1995.

(with Garrett Fitzmaurice and Peter Clifford) ‘Logistic Regression Models for Panel Data with Attrition’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 159, 1996.

‘A Comment on the Market Research Society’s Inquiry into the Opinion Polls’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A, 159, 1996.

(with Geoff Evans and Mansur Lalljee) ‘Measuring Left-Right and Libertarian-Authoritarian Values in the British Electorate’, British Journal of Sociology, 47, 1996.

(with Peter Clifford) ‘Class Inequalities and Educational Reform in Twentieth Century Britain’, in D J Lee and B S Turner (eds.) Conflicts about Class. London: Longman, 1996.

(with Jean Martin) ‘Why Are There So Few Formal Measuring Instruments in Social and Political Research?’ in N Schwartz (ed.) Survey Measurement and Process Quality. New York: Wiley, 1996.

(with Geoff Evans and Clive Payne) ‘Class and Party Revisited’, in D Denver et al (eds.) British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996.

(with K I Macdonald) ‘Pooling Cross-Sections’, Political Studies, 43, 1996.