Modern constituency electioneering
Subtitle: local campaigning in the 1992 general election
By: David Denver and Gordon Hands.
Contributors: Hands, Gordon.
Publisher: F. Cass; Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament -- Elections, 1992.; Political campaigns -- Great Britain.; Elections -- Great Britain.; Political parties -- Great Britain.
Description: In this first major study of grassroots election campaigning for thirty years, David Denver and Gordon Hands survey the evolution of campaigning over the past century and describe in detail how the parties organised their constituency campaigns in the 1992 election. The study - funded by the Economic & Social Research Council - examines and evaluates the campaign techniques that are now employed, and looks in detail at the role of local media and national party organisations.

Basing their analysis mainly on a large-scale postal survey of election agents in Britain, the authors have been able to construct a quantitative measure of the strength of the constituency campaigns mounted by the different parties across the country, and to use this measure to assess the effects of local campaigning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.