Anthony Heath's 1996-97 Annual Research Report

Anthony Heath (Official Fellow) has been directing a number of ESRC projects on voting behaviour in Britain. Together with his colleagues in the ESRC Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) he has been working on the 1997 British General Election Study (consisting of large-scale surveys of the British electorate both before and after the 1997 General Election). He has also undertaken, with Shamit Saggar (QMC) and Lindsay Brook (SCPR) the first ever major study of ethnic minority voting behaviour in Britain. Together with his colleagues in CREST (reinforced by Richard Wynn-Jones, Aberystwyth, and David McCrone, Edinburgh) he has also been working on surveys of participation in the Welsh and Scottish Referendums.

Publications

(with Min Yang and Harvey Goldstein) ‘Multilevel Models of the Changing Relationship between Class and Party in Britain 1964-92’, Quality and Quantity, 30, 1996.

(with Garrett Fitzmaurice and David Cox) ‘Detecting Overdispersion in Large-Scale Surveys: Application to a Study of Social Class and Education in Britain (with discussion)’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 46, 1997.

(with Bruno Cautres) ‘Déclin du "Vote de Classe": Une Analyse Comparative en France et en Grande Bretagne’, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparé, 3, 1996.

(with Jean Martin) ‘Changing Attitudes towards Abortion: Life-Cycle, Period and Cohort Effects’, in B Taylor and K Thompson (eds.), Understanding Change in Social Attitudes. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996.

(with Jean Martin) ‘Why Are There So Few Formal Measuring Instruments in Social and Political Research?’, in L Lybert et al (eds.), Survey Measurement and Process Quality. New York: Wiley, 1997.

‘What Was the Effect of New Labour?’, Renewal, 5, 1997.
(with Dorren McMahon) ‘Education and Occupational Attainment: The Impact of Ethnic Origins’, in V Karn (ed.), Education, Employment and Housing among Ethnic Minorities in Britain. London: HMSO, 1997.

(with Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ariana Need) ‘Class and Nation in England and Scotland’, in D Brought et al (eds.), British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1997. London: Frank Cass, 1997.

(with Kenneth Macdonald) ‘Pooling Cross-Section: a comment on Price and Sanders’, Political Studies, 45, 1997.