D J Rossiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1522296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D J Rossiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | D J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossiter |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSITER D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Class Dealignment and the Neighbourhood Effect
The concept of a neighbourhood effect within British voting patterns has largely been discarded, because no data have been available for testing it at the appropriate spatial scales. To undertake such tests, bespoke neighbourhoods have been created around the home of each respondent to the 1997 British Election Study survey in England and Wales, and small-area census data have been assembled for these to depict the socio-economic characteristics …
Social locations, spatial locations and voting at the 1997 British general election
Housing tenure, local context, scale and voting in England and Wales, 1997
Geographical Scale, the ‘Feel‐Good Factor’ and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England and Wales
Many analysts associate voting patterns in Great Britain with electors' evaluations of the state of the economy, whereby those who think it has improved recently are likely to vote for the government's return to power, whereas those who think it has worsened are more likely to vote for an opposition party. Most of these studies consider the national economy only, but data derived from the 1997 British Election Study cross–sectional survey show st…
New labour landslide ‐ same old electoral geography
(1998). New labour landslide ‐ same old electoral geography? British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 35-64
The Partisan Impacts of Non‐Partisan Redistricting
Space is manipulated for political purposes in a great variety of ways, and its restructuring is frequently a focus of conflict. The nature of such conflict is explored here. 1 Legislation requires that all parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom are periodically reviewed by independent Boundary Commissions. The Fourth Periodic Review in Northern Ireland began in 1993 and coincided with a period of intense political activity, associate…
The Organic or the Arithmetic
JOHNSTON R. J., PATTIE C. J. and ROSSITER D. J. (1997) The organic or the arithmetic: independent commissions and the redrawing of the UK's administrative maps, Reg. Studies 31, 337-349. Several elements of the administrative map of the UK were changed in the mid-1990s with the creation of new parliamentary constituencies and new unitary local authorities. The tasks of drawing-up the new maps involved resolving the tensions between two conflictin…
Sleaze, constituency and dissent
Dissension has become increasingly common within the UK House of Commons in recent decades. In November 1995, the government's position on recommendations regarding the disclosure of MPs' financial interests linked to their Parliamentary position was defeated because 22 of its backbenchers voted for a Labour amendment, which was carried. This paper looks at the pattern of voting on that issue, with particular reference to the constituency situati…
Redistricting and Electoral Bias in Great Britain
One of the salient characteristics of the British first-past-the-post electoral system is the amount of bias which it produces. Parties with large percentages of the votes (i.e. 25 or greater) almost invariably get even larger percentage shares of the parliamentary seats, whereas those with smaller vote percentages tend to get very few seats. That bias largely reflects the superimposition of a geography of constituency boundaries on the geographi…
Estimating the Partisan Impact of Redistricting in Great Britain
Redistricting has a substantial influence on parties' electoral fortunes, so the process receives extremely close attention from those potentially affected by changes to the pattern of constituency boundaries. In the United Kingdom, redistricting recommendations are made by independent Boundary Commissions, but the political parties can influence the nature of those recommendations through the representations that they make during the consultativ…
Electoral Registration, Population Mobility and the Democratic Franchise
A core concern of population geography is with the size, location and movement of groups of people. Most census analysis concentrates on various types of ‘residents’ of an area; many studies concentrate on ‘households’ while the population subgroups receiving considerable attention include children, the elderly, refugees, and ethnic minorities. The size, location and movement of one (very large and significant) group has received little attention…
The Changing Interpretation of Ambiguous Rules
Redistricting Revisited
Redisricting London
The Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England will soon be producing provisional recommendations for new constituencies for Greater London, which stands to lose as many as thirteen seats. In tackling this task, the Commission faces a substantial problem if it sticks to the previous practice of allocating seats separately to each London borough, and not being prepared to cross borough boundaries in the creation of constituencies. It is shown t…
Shape and the Definition of Parliamentary Constituencies
Program GROUP
A computer program is designed to produce all of the electoral constituencies for an English local authority, within the constraints imposed on the Parliamentary Boundary Commissioners. This builds on the seminal work of Gudgin and Taylor, and introduces size constraints, evaluates shape, and evaluates the electoral consequences of swings in voter opinion
Class Dealignment and the Neighbourhood Effect
The concept of a neighbourhood effect within British voting patterns has largely been discarded, because no data have been available for testing it at the appropriate spatial scales. To undertake such tests, bespoke neighbourhoods have been created around the home of each respondent to the 1997 British Election Study survey in England and Wales, and small-area census data have been assembled for these to depict the socio-economic characteristics …
Estimating the Partisan Impact of Redistricting in Great Britain
Redistricting has a substantial influence on parties' electoral fortunes, so the process receives extremely close attention from those potentially affected by changes to the pattern of constituency boundaries. In the United Kingdom, redistricting recommendations are made by independent Boundary Commissions, but the political parties can influence the nature of those recommendations through the representations that they make during the consultativ…
Geographical Scale, the ‘Feel‐Good Factor’ and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England and Wales
Many analysts associate voting patterns in Great Britain with electors' evaluations of the state of the economy, whereby those who think it has improved recently are likely to vote for the government's return to power, whereas those who think it has worsened are more likely to vote for an opposition party. Most of these studies consider the national economy only, but data derived from the 1997 British Election Study cross–sectional survey show st…
Social locations, spatial locations and voting at the 1997 British general election
Housing tenure, local context, scale and voting in England and Wales, 1997
Program GROUP
A computer program is designed to produce all of the electoral constituencies for an English local authority, within the constraints imposed on the Parliamentary Boundary Commissioners. This builds on the seminal work of Gudgin and Taylor, and introduces size constraints, evaluates shape, and evaluates the electoral consequences of swings in voter opinion
The Partisan Impacts of Non‐Partisan Redistricting
Space is manipulated for political purposes in a great variety of ways, and its restructuring is frequently a focus of conflict. The nature of such conflict is explored here. 1 Legislation requires that all parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom are periodically reviewed by independent Boundary Commissions. The Fourth Periodic Review in Northern Ireland began in 1993 and coincided with a period of intense political activity, associate…
Shape and the Definition of Parliamentary Constituencies
Redistricting and Electoral Bias in Great Britain
One of the salient characteristics of the British first-past-the-post electoral system is the amount of bias which it produces. Parties with large percentages of the votes (i.e. 25 or greater) almost invariably get even larger percentage shares of the parliamentary seats, whereas those with smaller vote percentages tend to get very few seats. That bias largely reflects the superimposition of a geography of constituency boundaries on the geographi…
New labour landslide ‐ same old electoral geography
(1998). New labour landslide ‐ same old electoral geography? British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 35-64
The Organic or the Arithmetic
JOHNSTON R. J., PATTIE C. J. and ROSSITER D. J. (1997) The organic or the arithmetic: independent commissions and the redrawing of the UK's administrative maps, Reg. Studies 31, 337-349. Several elements of the administrative map of the UK were changed in the mid-1990s with the creation of new parliamentary constituencies and new unitary local authorities. The tasks of drawing-up the new maps involved resolving the tensions between two conflictin…
The Changing Interpretation of Ambiguous Rules
Sleaze, constituency and dissent
Dissension has become increasingly common within the UK House of Commons in recent decades. In November 1995, the government's position on recommendations regarding the disclosure of MPs' financial interests linked to their Parliamentary position was defeated because 22 of its backbenchers voted for a Labour amendment, which was carried. This paper looks at the pattern of voting on that issue, with particular reference to the constituency situati…
Redistricting Revisited
Shape and the Definition of Parliamentary Constituencies
Program GROUP
A computer program is designed to produce all of the electoral constituencies for an English local authority, within the constraints imposed on the Parliamentary Boundary Commissioners. This builds on the seminal work of Gudgin and Taylor, and introduces size constraints, evaluates shape, and evaluates the electoral consequences of swings in voter opinion
Redistricting Revisited
Redisricting London
The Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England will soon be producing provisional recommendations for new constituencies for Greater London, which stands to lose as many as thirteen seats. In tackling this task, the Commission faces a substantial problem if it sticks to the previous practice of allocating seats separately to each London borough, and not being prepared to cross borough boundaries in the creation of constituencies. It is shown t…
The Changing Interpretation of Ambiguous Rules
Electoral Registration, Population Mobility and the Democratic Franchise
A core concern of population geography is with the size, location and movement of groups of people. Most census analysis concentrates on various types of ‘residents’ of an area; many studies concentrate on ‘households’ while the population subgroups receiving considerable attention include children, the elderly, refugees, and ethnic minorities. The size, location and movement of one (very large and significant) group has received little attention…
The Organic or the Arithmetic
JOHNSTON R. J., PATTIE C. J. and ROSSITER D. J. (1997) The organic or the arithmetic: independent commissions and the redrawing of the UK's administrative maps, Reg. Studies 31, 337-349. Several elements of the administrative map of the UK were changed in the mid-1990s with the creation of new parliamentary constituencies and new unitary local authorities. The tasks of drawing-up the new maps involved resolving the tensions between two conflictin…
Sleaze, constituency and dissent
Dissension has become increasingly common within the UK House of Commons in recent decades. In November 1995, the government's position on recommendations regarding the disclosure of MPs' financial interests linked to their Parliamentary position was defeated because 22 of its backbenchers voted for a Labour amendment, which was carried. This paper looks at the pattern of voting on that issue, with particular reference to the constituency situati…
Redistricting and Electoral Bias in Great Britain
One of the salient characteristics of the British first-past-the-post electoral system is the amount of bias which it produces. Parties with large percentages of the votes (i.e. 25 or greater) almost invariably get even larger percentage shares of the parliamentary seats, whereas those with smaller vote percentages tend to get very few seats. That bias largely reflects the superimposition of a geography of constituency boundaries on the geographi…
Estimating the Partisan Impact of Redistricting in Great Britain
Redistricting has a substantial influence on parties' electoral fortunes, so the process receives extremely close attention from those potentially affected by changes to the pattern of constituency boundaries. In the United Kingdom, redistricting recommendations are made by independent Boundary Commissions, but the political parties can influence the nature of those recommendations through the representations that they make during the consultativ…
New labour landslide ‐ same old electoral geography
(1998). New labour landslide ‐ same old electoral geography? British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 35-64
The Partisan Impacts of Non‐Partisan Redistricting
Space is manipulated for political purposes in a great variety of ways, and its restructuring is frequently a focus of conflict. The nature of such conflict is explored here. 1 Legislation requires that all parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom are periodically reviewed by independent Boundary Commissions. The Fourth Periodic Review in Northern Ireland began in 1993 and coincided with a period of intense political activity, associate…
Geographical Scale, the ‘Feel‐Good Factor’ and Voting at the 1997 General Election in England and Wales
Many analysts associate voting patterns in Great Britain with electors' evaluations of the state of the economy, whereby those who think it has improved recently are likely to vote for the government's return to power, whereas those who think it has worsened are more likely to vote for an opposition party. Most of these studies consider the national economy only, but data derived from the 1997 British Election Study cross–sectional survey show st…
Class Dealignment and the Neighbourhood Effect
The concept of a neighbourhood effect within British voting patterns has largely been discarded, because no data have been available for testing it at the appropriate spatial scales. To undertake such tests, bespoke neighbourhoods have been created around the home of each respondent to the 1997 British Election Study survey in England and Wales, and small-area census data have been assembled for these to depict the socio-economic characteristics …
Social locations, spatial locations and voting at the 1997 British general election
Housing tenure, local context, scale and voting in England and Wales, 1997
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