TY - JOUR
T1 - Friends and neighbours voting revisited
T2 - the geography of support for candidates to lead the UK's Labour party
AU - Johnston, Ron
AU - Wickham-Jones, Mark
AU - Pattie, Charles
AU - Cutts, David
AU - Pemberton, Hugh
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - Most studies of the 'friends and neighbours' effect in voting behaviour have accounted for their observed patterns using Key's classic identification of this effect as reflecting localism and voting for the 'home town boy'. This paper introduces other potential local influences, and hypothesizes that there should be separate local friends', neighbours', and political friends' effects. This expanded model is successfully tested using data from elections for the leadership of the UK's Labour Party in 1994 and 2010. All three effects operated, to a greater or lesser extent, in the pattern of voting for most of the candidates.
AB - Most studies of the 'friends and neighbours' effect in voting behaviour have accounted for their observed patterns using Key's classic identification of this effect as reflecting localism and voting for the 'home town boy'. This paper introduces other potential local influences, and hypothesizes that there should be separate local friends', neighbours', and political friends' effects. This expanded model is successfully tested using data from elections for the leadership of the UK's Labour Party in 1994 and 2010. All three effects operated, to a greater or lesser extent, in the pattern of voting for most of the candidates.
KW - Friends and neighbours effects
KW - Labour leaders
KW - UK
KW - Voting
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962303454&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.02.003
U2 - 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962303454
SN - 0962-6298
VL - 55
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Political Geography
JF - Political Geography
ER -