Anthony Heath: Annual Report 1998-99
Anthony Heath (Official Fellow) has been completing his work, with his colleagues in the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST), on a book on New Labour. The book is based on the 1997 British Election Study, which CREST conducted, and on the previous surveys in the series. The book covers the period from 1979; it explores the social and ideological basis of Conservative dominance over the period, Labour’s reaction and modernization, and at the electorate’s responses to the changes, both to Thatcherism and to New Labour. The book will be published by Oxford University Press next year.
He has also been working with Yogendra Yadav and colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. This work is based on the series of election studies that have been conducted by the CSDS. The aim of the work is to describe and explain political change in India, particularly the declining appeal of Congress and the rise of the BJP. Further cross-national work is in progress with Marc Swyngedouw (Leuven), Nan Dirk de Graaf (Nijmegen), Bruno Cautres (Grenoble), Richard Wyn Jones (Aberwystwyth) and Robert Andersen (Brock).
He has also been awarded two new grants by the ESRC to study English national identity and the Welsh Assembly Elections.
Publications
(with John Curtice and Edward G Carmines) ‘Voter Rationality and Party Systems in America and Britain’, in Votes and Opinions, newsletter of the APSA organized section on elections, public opinion and voting behaviour, 3, 1998.
(with Bridget Taylor, Lindsay Brook and Alison Park) ‘British National Sentiment’, British Journal of Political Science, 29, 1999.
‘Were the Welsh and Scottish Referendums Second-order Elections? in Bridget Taylor and Katarina Thomson (eds), Scotland and Wales: Nations Again? Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999.
‘Social Change, Value Orientations and Voting Patterns since the 1980s’,in Hans Kastendiek, Richard Stinshoff and Roland Sturm (eds.), The Return of Labour - A Turning Point in British Politics? Berlin: Philo, 1999.
(with Iain McLean, Bridget Taylor and John Curtice) ‘Between First and Second Order: A Comparison of Voting Behaviour in European and Local Elections in Britain’, European Journal of Political Research, 35, 1999.
(with Richard Breen and Christopher Whelan, eds) Ireland North and South. Perspectives from Social Science. Proceedings of the British Academy, 98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
(with Richard Breen and Christopher Whelan) ‘Educational Inequality in Ireland, North and South’, in Ireland North and South. Perspectives from Social Science.
(with Sheila Jacobs) ‘Comprehensive Reform in Britain’, in Achim Leschinsky and Karl Ulrich Mayer (eds.), The Comprehensive School Experiment Revisited: Evidence from Western Europe. 2nd enlarged and updated edition. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999.
(with Geoffrey Evans and Clive Payne) ‘Class: Labour as a Catch-All Party?’ in Geoffrey Evans and Pippa Norris (eds.) Critical Elections: British Parties and Voters in Long-Term Perspective. London: Sage, 1999.
(with Bridget Taylor) ‘New Sources of Abstention?’ in Geoffrey Evans and Pippa Norris (eds.), Critical Elections: British Parties and Voters in Long-Term Perspective. London: Sage, 1999.
(with Shamit Saggar) ‘Race: Towards a Multicultural Electorate?’ in Geoffrey Evans and Pippa Norris (eds.), Critical Elections: British Parties and Voters in Long-Term Perspective. London: Sage, 1999.
(with Yogendra Yadav) ‘The United Colours of Congress: Social Profile of Congress voters, 1996 and 1998’, Economic and Political Weekly, 34, 1999.