Stephen D Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 222152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1006-1638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 718 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Europeans’ climate consciousness: Increased yet more politicised
As climate change became more important to voters and political parties in the late 2010s in Europe, this paper asks whether aspects of public opinion on the issue also became more politicised, in the sense of being more closely linked to either party-family vote choice or left–right identity. We consider change from Wave 8 (2016–17) to Wave 10 (2020–22) of the European Social Survey (ESS). Climate consciousness increased overall, especially in C…
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions
There are differences across Europe in elements of climate citizenship, including climate concern, perceived responsibility, and willingness to support and take climate action. This paper examines how individual-level climate perceptions correspond to a country's contribution to climate change and its ability to develop climate policies. Data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (23 European countries, n = 44,387) was used to explore how natio…
Awareness and Experience of Mindfulness in Britain
In recent years, the practice of mindfulness has become increasingly popular, but there is very little evidence on how many and what kind of people have heard of and learnt to practise mindfulness. Using data from an online survey on a sample of 1013 adults in Britain in November 2018, this study aims to estimate the prevalence of mindfulness use among adults in Britain and to identify the sociodemographic and political characteristics associated…
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions
The Sainte-Laguë index of disproportionality and Dalton’s principle of transfers
The Sainte-Laguë index (SLI) has a strong claim to be the index that should be adopted as the standard measure of disproportionality in electoral studies. Its properties are therefore worthwhile understanding more clearly. This article provides a counterexample (the 2010 UK general election) to previous claims that the SLI satisfies Dalton’s principle of transfers with respect to differences between seat shares and vote shares but not ratios of s…
Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants: A cross-European analysis
The UK’s referendum on EU membership of June 2016: How expectations of Brexit’s impact affected the outcome
The UK voted by a narrow margin to leave the European Union in a referendum on 23 June 2016. This article examines why this was the result and brings out comparative implications. Building on previous findings that expectations about the impact of Brexit were central to voters’ decisions, we seek to improve understanding of how these expectations mattered. On average across a range of issues, our analysis suggests that Leave would have won if vot…
Piecing it all together and forecasting who governs: The 2015 British general election
Forecasting the 2015 British general election: The 1992 debacle all over again
Understanding the effects of religious attendance on political participation among ethnic minorities of different religions
In the United States, active church membership among ethnic and racial minorities has been linked to higher political participation. In Europe, the influence of religious attendance on political mobilisation of ethnic minorities has so far been little explored, despite the heated public debate about the public role of religion and particularly Islam. This study uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to theorise the relationship betw…
Compensation or Constraint? How Different Dimensions of Economic Globalization Affect Government Spending and Electoral Turnout
This article extends theoretical arguments regarding the impact of economic globalization on policy making to electoral turnout and considers how distinct dimensions of globalization may produce different effects. It theorizes that constraints on government policy that reduce incentives to vote are more likely to be induced by foreign ownership of capital, while compensation through increased government spending is more likely (if at all) to be t…
Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain
This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. Ethnic minority vot…
The Calculus of Ethnic Minority Voting in Britain
Using data from the 2010 UK general election, the article shows that there is a distinctive calculus of party choice among Britain's overwhelmingly Labour-supporting ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority (EM) voters are similar to whites in the importance they accord to partisanship and valence considerations in deciding which party they vote for. However, EM voters place less emphasis on ideological spatial calculations. Additionally, across all et…
The democratic engagement of Britain's ethnic minorities
Democratic engagement is a multi-faceted phenomenon that embraces citizens' involvement with electoral politics, their participation in 'conventional' extra-parliamentary political activity, their satisfaction with democracy and trust in state institutions, and their rejection of the use of violence for political ends.Evidence from the 2010 BES and EMBES shows that there are important variations in patterns of democratic engagement across Britain…
The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
This book analyses the extent and nature of the political integration of Britain’s main ethnic-minority groups (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, black Africans, and black Caribbeans). The issues covered include political knowledge and interest, political values and policy preferences, perceptions of parties, preferences for parties, representation and what parties offer ethnic minorities, voter registration, electoral behaviour (turnout and vot…
Polls and the Vote in Britain
Little is known about the evolution of electoral sentiment over British election cycles. How does party support converge on the eventual election outcome? Do preferences evolve in a patterned and understandable way? What role does the official election campaign period play? In this article, we begin to address these issues. We outline an empirical analysis relating poll results over the course of the election cycle and the final vote for the thre…
Opportunities and challenges in the expansion of cross-national survey research
Past decades have witnessed significant expansion in the reach of public opinion surveys. While the need for comparable data from increasingly heterogeneous countries has led some to infer that survey practices must be centralized and identical, the explicit inclusion of variation between countries may well improve the enterprise of cross-national research. This paper examines some of the challenges endemic to the continued global spread of cross…
From polls to votes to seats: Forecasting the 2010 British general election
The United Kingdom election of 2010
Video election note: The UK General Election of 2010
Coalition government and electoral accountability
Disengaging voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting
United Kingdom
Change in) turnout and (change in) the left share of the vote
Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants: A cross-European analysis
Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain
This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. Ethnic minority vot…
Coalition government and electoral accountability
The Globalization of Public Opinion Research
As globalization has opened up channels of communication between different countries and increased interest in cross-national analysis, public opinion survey research has expanded its reach in the world. This article examines both the breadth and the depth of the globalization of public opinion research. First, we discuss the growth of cross-national surveys such as the World Values Survey, the International Social Survey Program, the European So…
Definition and Measurement of Tactical Voting: The Role of Rational Choice
There has been substantial debate on the measurement of tactical voting in this Journal, much of which has actually been concerned with the definition of a tactical vote. For this reason it is necessary to go ‘back to basics’ to examine the notion of a tactical vote within rational choice theory and follow its implications for the measurement of tactical voting. This Note has four aims: to elucidate the formal theoretical concepts behind the noti…
The Calculus of Ethnic Minority Voting in Britain
Using data from the 2010 UK general election, the article shows that there is a distinctive calculus of party choice among Britain's overwhelmingly Labour-supporting ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority (EM) voters are similar to whites in the importance they accord to partisanship and valence considerations in deciding which party they vote for. However, EM voters place less emphasis on ideological spatial calculations. Additionally, across all et…
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions
The democratic engagement of Britain's ethnic minorities
Democratic engagement is a multi-faceted phenomenon that embraces citizens' involvement with electoral politics, their participation in 'conventional' extra-parliamentary political activity, their satisfaction with democracy and trust in state institutions, and their rejection of the use of violence for political ends.Evidence from the 2010 BES and EMBES shows that there are important variations in patterns of democratic engagement across Britain…
The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe
Understanding the effects of religious attendance on political participation among ethnic minorities of different religions
In the United States, active church membership among ethnic and racial minorities has been linked to higher political participation. In Europe, the influence of religious attendance on political mobilisation of ethnic minorities has so far been little explored, despite the heated public debate about the public role of religion and particularly Islam. This study uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to theorise the relationship betw…
Change in) turnout and (change in) the left share of the vote
Compensation or Constraint? How Different Dimensions of Economic Globalization Affect Government Spending and Electoral Turnout
This article extends theoretical arguments regarding the impact of economic globalization on policy making to electoral turnout and considers how distinct dimensions of globalization may produce different effects. It theorizes that constraints on government policy that reduce incentives to vote are more likely to be induced by foreign ownership of capital, while compensation through increased government spending is more likely (if at all) to be t…
From polls to votes to seats: Forecasting the 2010 British general election
Disengaging voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting
Polls and the Vote in Britain
Little is known about the evolution of electoral sentiment over British election cycles. How does party support converge on the eventual election outcome? Do preferences evolve in a patterned and understandable way? What role does the official election campaign period play? In this article, we begin to address these issues. We outline an empirical analysis relating poll results over the course of the election cycle and the final vote for the thre…
The UK’s referendum on EU membership of June 2016: How expectations of Brexit’s impact affected the outcome
The UK voted by a narrow margin to leave the European Union in a referendum on 23 June 2016. This article examines why this was the result and brings out comparative implications. Building on previous findings that expectations about the impact of Brexit were central to voters’ decisions, we seek to improve understanding of how these expectations mattered. On average across a range of issues, our analysis suggests that Leave would have won if vot…
Forecasting the 2015 British general election: The 1992 debacle all over again
Political data in 2005
Awareness and Experience of Mindfulness in Britain
In recent years, the practice of mindfulness has become increasingly popular, but there is very little evidence on how many and what kind of people have heard of and learnt to practise mindfulness. Using data from an online survey on a sample of 1013 adults in Britain in November 2018, this study aims to estimate the prevalence of mindfulness use among adults in Britain and to identify the sociodemographic and political characteristics associated…
United Kingdom
Class Contextual Effects on the Conservative Vote in 1983
The geography of the vote in Britain is in part a function of the geography of social class and other individual-level characteristics associated with vote choice. Since the proportion of working-class people is lower in the South than the North we expect support for Labour to be lower in the South than in the North
Opportunities and challenges in the expansion of cross-national survey research
Past decades have witnessed significant expansion in the reach of public opinion surveys. While the need for comparable data from increasingly heterogeneous countries has led some to infer that survey practices must be centralized and identical, the explicit inclusion of variation between countries may well improve the enterprise of cross-national research. This paper examines some of the challenges endemic to the continued global spread of cross…
The United Kingdom election of 2010
The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions
There are differences across Europe in elements of climate citizenship, including climate concern, perceived responsibility, and willingness to support and take climate action. This paper examines how individual-level climate perceptions correspond to a country's contribution to climate change and its ability to develop climate policies. Data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (23 European countries, n = 44,387) was used to explore how natio…
The Sainte-Laguë index of disproportionality and Dalton’s principle of transfers
The Sainte-Laguë index (SLI) has a strong claim to be the index that should be adopted as the standard measure of disproportionality in electoral studies. Its properties are therefore worthwhile understanding more clearly. This article provides a counterexample (the 2010 UK general election) to previous claims that the SLI satisfies Dalton’s principle of transfers with respect to differences between seat shares and vote shares but not ratios of s…
Lisbon as a Port Town, the British Seaman and Other Maritime Themes
Creating a World Economy: Merchant Capital, Colonialism and World Trade, 1400-1825
Party preference structure in England, 1987–97
Class Contextual Effects on the Conservative Vote in 1983
The geography of the vote in Britain is in part a function of the geography of social class and other individual-level characteristics associated with vote choice. Since the proportion of working-class people is lower in the South than the North we expect support for Labour to be lower in the South than in the North
Definition and Measurement of Tactical Voting: The Role of Rational Choice
There has been substantial debate on the measurement of tactical voting in this Journal, much of which has actually been concerned with the definition of a tactical vote. For this reason it is necessary to go ‘back to basics’ to examine the notion of a tactical vote within rational choice theory and follow its implications for the measurement of tactical voting. This Note has four aims: to elucidate the formal theoretical concepts behind the noti…
United Kingdom
BBC New Guide to the Cabinet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk_politics/03/the_cabinet/html/default.stm British office of the European Parliament: http://www.europarl.org.uk/index.htm Electoral Commission: http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk European Parliament election results for the United Kingdom, 1999: http://www.europarl.org.uk/guide/Gelectionsmain.html European Parliament election results for the United Kingdom, 2004: http://www.…
The Globalization of Public Opinion Research
As globalization has opened up channels of communication between different countries and increased interest in cross-national analysis, public opinion survey research has expanded its reach in the world. This article examines both the breadth and the depth of the globalization of public opinion research. First, we discuss the growth of cross-national surveys such as the World Values Survey, the International Social Survey Program, the European So…
Political data in 2005
United Kingdom
Change in) turnout and (change in) the left share of the vote
Disengaging voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting
Video election note: The UK General Election of 2010
Coalition government and electoral accountability
Opportunities and challenges in the expansion of cross-national survey research
Past decades have witnessed significant expansion in the reach of public opinion surveys. While the need for comparable data from increasingly heterogeneous countries has led some to infer that survey practices must be centralized and identical, the explicit inclusion of variation between countries may well improve the enterprise of cross-national research. This paper examines some of the challenges endemic to the continued global spread of cross…
From polls to votes to seats: Forecasting the 2010 British general election
The United Kingdom election of 2010
The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
This book analyses the extent and nature of the political integration of Britain’s main ethnic-minority groups (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, black Africans, and black Caribbeans). The issues covered include political knowledge and interest, political values and policy preferences, perceptions of parties, preferences for parties, representation and what parties offer ethnic minorities, voter registration, electoral behaviour (turnout and vot…
Polls and the Vote in Britain
Little is known about the evolution of electoral sentiment over British election cycles. How does party support converge on the eventual election outcome? Do preferences evolve in a patterned and understandable way? What role does the official election campaign period play? In this article, we begin to address these issues. We outline an empirical analysis relating poll results over the course of the election cycle and the final vote for the thre…
The Calculus of Ethnic Minority Voting in Britain
Using data from the 2010 UK general election, the article shows that there is a distinctive calculus of party choice among Britain's overwhelmingly Labour-supporting ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority (EM) voters are similar to whites in the importance they accord to partisanship and valence considerations in deciding which party they vote for. However, EM voters place less emphasis on ideological spatial calculations. Additionally, across all et…
The democratic engagement of Britain's ethnic minorities
Democratic engagement is a multi-faceted phenomenon that embraces citizens' involvement with electoral politics, their participation in 'conventional' extra-parliamentary political activity, their satisfaction with democracy and trust in state institutions, and their rejection of the use of violence for political ends.Evidence from the 2010 BES and EMBES shows that there are important variations in patterns of democratic engagement across Britain…
Understanding the effects of religious attendance on political participation among ethnic minorities of different religions
In the United States, active church membership among ethnic and racial minorities has been linked to higher political participation. In Europe, the influence of religious attendance on political mobilisation of ethnic minorities has so far been little explored, despite the heated public debate about the public role of religion and particularly Islam. This study uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to theorise the relationship betw…
Compensation or Constraint? How Different Dimensions of Economic Globalization Affect Government Spending and Electoral Turnout
This article extends theoretical arguments regarding the impact of economic globalization on policy making to electoral turnout and considers how distinct dimensions of globalization may produce different effects. It theorizes that constraints on government policy that reduce incentives to vote are more likely to be induced by foreign ownership of capital, while compensation through increased government spending is more likely (if at all) to be t…
Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain
This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. Ethnic minority vot…
Piecing it all together and forecasting who governs: The 2015 British general election
Forecasting the 2015 British general election: The 1992 debacle all over again
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