Ivor Crewe
Biographic Data
| ID | 237101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivor Crewe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivor |
| FAMILY NAME | Crewe |
| SIGNATURE | CREWE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 937 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Blunders of Our Governments
Authoritarian Populism and Liberal Democracy
This edited volume offers new insights into the populist wave that is affecting democratic politics in a large number of countries. The authoritarian populist turn that has developed in the US and various European countries in recent years both reflects and exacerbates the polarization of public opinion that increasingly characterizes democratic politics. The book seeks to explain how and why authoritarian populist opinion has developed and been …
Decade of Dealignment: The Conservative Victory of 1979 and Electoral Trends in The 1970s
Public Discussion in the Deliberative System: Does It Make Better Citizens
In democratic theory, the practice of discussing public affairs has been associated with desirable consequences for citizenship and democracy. We use Anglo-American survey data to examine twelve hypotheses about psychological foundations for four general conditions that such discussions might promote: autonomous citizens, political legitimacy, good representation and democratic communities. Our data combine detailed measures of public discussion …
The Opinion Polls: The Election They Got (Almost) Right
Journal Article The Opinion Polls: The Election They Got (Almost) Right Get access Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe Professor of Government and Vice Chancellor of Essex University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 684–698, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi074 Published: 01 October 2005
The Elusive Ideal of Equal Citizenship: Political Theory and Political Psychology in the United States and Great Britain
It is a fundamental ideal of liberal democracy that all citizens should enjoy fully equal citizenship. Yet many minorities are still routinely ignored, excluded, patronized, and not regarded as full members of the political community. This denial of equal standing undermines their equal citizenship. Liberalism and Cultural Pluralism each advocate strategies to improve this situation. Their arguments build upon expectations about how citizens shou…
Citizenship in the Age of Liberalism
Journal Article Citizenship in the Age of Liberalism Get access Donald D. Searing, Donald D. Searing Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pamela Johnston Conover, Pamela Johnston Conover Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, 1 October 2003, …
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion
What is the deliberative potential of everyday political discussion? We address this question using survey data and qualitative data collected in six communities in the United States and Britain. Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality. But the factors inhibiting more deliberative discussions – structural, cultural and motivational in nature – should be amenable …
The Opinion Polls: Still Biased to Labour
Journal Article The Opinion Polls: Still Biased to Labour Get access Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 650–665, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.650 Published: 01 October 2001
The Opinion Polls: Confidence Restored
Journal Article The Opinion Polls: Confidence Restored? Get access IVOR CREWE IVOR CREWE *Vice Chancellor of the University of Essex and Professor of Government Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 569–585, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028756 Published: 01 October 1997
Did the British marginals vanish? Proportionality and exaggeration in the British electoral system revisited
Pourquoi les travaillistes ont-ils (à nouveau) perdu
Aux élections législatives britanniques de 1992, les conservateurs l'ont emporté pour la quatrième fois consécutive, avec leur troisième plus forte majorité électorale depuis 1945. Ce résultat a surpris tout le monde, étant donné l'échec de la poil fax, la grave récession économique, les traits nouveaux de modération, d'unité et de professionnalisme du Parti travailliste. Plusieurs explications sont avancées : les images des dirigeants des partis…
The Reputation of Political Science Journals: Pluralist and Consensus Views
Individual scholars and their departments are increasingly judged according to the alleged ‘quality’ of the academic journals in which they publish. This article is the first systematic attempt to measure the reputation of political science journals and is designed for comparison with American academics' evaluations. It explores academics' criteria for judging journals, the consensus of judgement on any one journal across different criteria, and …
A Nation of Liars? Opinion Polls and the 1992 Election
Changing votes and unchanging voters
The Nature of Citizenship in the United States and Great Britain: Empirical Comments on Theoretical Themes
This study examines citizens' conceptions of rights, duties, and civic identities in the United States and Great Britain. By combining an information processing approach with a methodology--focus groups--that has seldom been used in political science, we have begun to explore empirical claims in contemporary theoretical controversies about citizenship. We find that in the minds of citizens citizenship is a complex matter, and that the roles const…
Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1987
This book examines the process of political communication in the 1987 general election campaign. Special attention is paid to the innovations that marked this campaign including the celebrated Kinnock party election broadcast and the TV 87 campaign for tactical voting
British and American Journal Evaluation: Divergence or Convergence
regarded by a jury who undoubtedly knew its own mind when it came to pornography (Alexander v. United States, 271 F.2d 140 (8th Cir. 1959)). Similarly, the university political science professor who testified on the effects of hair length in public schools may have ventured beyond his area of expertise; at least so thought the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Karr v. Schmidt, 460 F.2d 609, 612-613 (5th Cir. 1972)). Nevertheless, political scientis…
Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983
A unique mixture of academic research, professional experience and personal reflection, Political Communications examines the crucial dialogue between politicians and people that is conducted, via the Press, broadcasting and opinion polls, during the course of a British election campaign. Scholarly analysis is complemented by the contributions of individual experts from advertising agencies, polling organisations and political parties: among the …
Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983
Ideological Change in the British Conservative Party
We address both a puzzle and a theory. The puzzle is posed by the emergence of "Thatcherism," an un-Conservative ideology that has appeared in an antiideological British Conservative party. We address this puzzle by determining what Thatcherism is and by showing that although it represents a minority viewpoint, it does indeed fit into previous Conservative thinking. The theory in question is the spatial theory of ideological change, which, we arg…
On the Death and Resurrection of Class Voting: Some Comments on How Britain Votes
How Britain Votes, 1 based on the 1983 British Election Study, challenges the consensual view that in recent elections class voting has declined and thereby contributed to Labour's electoral misfortunes. It redefines social classes, including the working class, claims that relative class voting shows no evidence of decline, argues that Labour's electoral troubles are largely due to the diminishing size of the working class, not its changing chara…
Political opinion polling: An international review
Journal Article Political opinion polling: an international review Get access Political opinion polling: an international review. Edited by Robert M. Worcester. London: Macmillan. 1983. 246 pp. Index. £25.00. Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617598 Published: 01 July 198…
Defence and public opinion
Journal Article Defence and public opinion Get access Defence and public opinion. By David Capitanchikand Richard C. Eichenberg. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul for Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1983. 98pp. (Chatham House Paper 20.) Pb.: £4.95. Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Spring 1984, Page 287, https://doi.…
Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964–1974
Britain enjoys a textbook reputation as the historic home and model representative of a stable two-party system. From the factors most frequently cited by way of explanation – the electoral system, the absence of cross-cutting social cleavages – it is implied that this uncommon state of affairs is a natural and permanent part of British politics. This reputation is, in fact, somewhat exaggerated. At no time have MPs or parliamentary candidates in…
The Deliberative Potential of Political Discussion
What is the deliberative potential of everyday political discussion? We address this question using survey data and qualitative data collected in six communities in the United States and Britain. Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality. But the factors inhibiting more deliberative discussions – structural, cultural and motivational in nature – should be amenable …
Blunders of Our Governments
Decade of Dealignment: The Conservative Victory of 1979 and Electoral Trends in The 1970s
The Nature of Citizenship in the United States and Great Britain: Empirical Comments on Theoretical Themes
This study examines citizens' conceptions of rights, duties, and civic identities in the United States and Great Britain. By combining an information processing approach with a methodology--focus groups--that has seldom been used in political science, we have begun to explore empirical claims in contemporary theoretical controversies about citizenship. We find that in the minds of citizens citizenship is a complex matter, and that the roles const…
On the Death and Resurrection of Class Voting: Some Comments on How Britain Votes
How Britain Votes, 1 based on the 1983 British Election Study, challenges the consensual view that in recent elections class voting has declined and thereby contributed to Labour's electoral misfortunes. It redefines social classes, including the working class, claims that relative class voting shows no evidence of decline, argues that Labour's electoral troubles are largely due to the diminishing size of the working class, not its changing chara…
The electorate: Partisan dealignment ten years on
1983). The electorate: Partisan dealignment ten years on. West European Politics: Vol. 6, Change in British Politics, pp. 183-215
Ideological Change in the British Conservative Party
We address both a puzzle and a theory. The puzzle is posed by the emergence of "Thatcherism," an un-Conservative ideology that has appeared in an antiideological British Conservative party. We address this puzzle by determining what Thatcherism is and by showing that although it represents a minority viewpoint, it does indeed fit into previous Conservative thinking. The theory in question is the spatial theory of ideological change, which, we arg…
The Elusive Ideal of Equal Citizenship: Political Theory and Political Psychology in the United States and Great Britain
It is a fundamental ideal of liberal democracy that all citizens should enjoy fully equal citizenship. Yet many minorities are still routinely ignored, excluded, patronized, and not regarded as full members of the political community. This denial of equal standing undermines their equal citizenship. Liberalism and Cultural Pluralism each advocate strategies to improve this situation. Their arguments build upon expectations about how citizens shou…
Do Butler and Stokes Really Explain Political Change in Britain
Butler and Stokes’Political Change in Britain is reviewed, and criticised for focussing on a notion of electoral change which is singularly restrictive and which, moreover, has been noticeably absent in post‐war Britain compared with other Western democracies. Three other kinds of electoral change, although ignored in the book, are shown to have been peculiar to Britain since 1945. These are (i) a persistent decline in the combined major party sh…
Another Game with Nature: An Ecological Regression Model of the British Two-Party Vote Ratio in 1970
This article develops a number of themes first raised in an earlier paper where we attempted to publicize the existence of Census data based, for the first time, on British parliamentary constituencies, and where we briefly described the potential and limits of a variety of available statistical techniques of analysis. Until the earlier paper was published, studies of British electoral behaviour using aggregate data were largely historical, gener…
Angels in Plastic: The Liberal Surge in 1974
Before the Liberal surge in 1974, survey research stressed that the Liberal vote was electorally volatile, socially representative, and negative in character. Data from 1974 indicates that the volatility of the Liberal vote owes more to the absence of a large core of stable Liberal voters than to any difference among parties in their ability to retain the votes of recent converts. Moreover, the small core of regular Liberal voters is unusually mi…
Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1987
This book examines the process of political communication in the 1987 general election campaign. Special attention is paid to the innovations that marked this campaign including the celebrated Kinnock party election broadcast and the TV 87 campaign for tactical voting
Prospects for Party Realignment: An Anglo-American Comparison
In the wake of the wars, riots, scandals, and assassinations that convulsed America's politics during the 1960s and early 1970s, a spate of books and articles has speculated upon the future of the American party system.1 The focus of attention was the possibility of a new party system created by a similar to the three instances of 1852-56, 1896, and 1932-36. Plausible cases were made out for almost every development conceivable: for an emerging R…
Public Discussion in the Deliberative System: Does It Make Better Citizens
In democratic theory, the practice of discussing public affairs has been associated with desirable consequences for citizenship and democracy. We use Anglo-American survey data to examine twelve hypotheses about psychological foundations for four general conditions that such discussions might promote: autonomous citizens, political legitimacy, good representation and democratic communities. Our data combine detailed measures of public discussion …
The Connection Between SNP Voting and the Demand for Scottish Self‐government
Evidence is presented both for and against several explanatory models of SNP electoral support. There are remarkable similarities of timing and psychology between SNP support and support for Liberals or abstention in England. Yet SNP support matches attitudes towards more self‐government. It would appear that SNP support has been caused by Britain‐wide influences breaking the constraints that formerly kept the self‐government cleavage out of part…
The Politics of ‘Affluent’ and ‘Traditional’ Workers in Britain: An Aggregate Data Analysis
In their study of the ‘affluent worker’ in Luton,1 Goldthorpe and his colleagues reached a number of important conclusions about the political behaviour of the ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ working class in post-war Britain. They rejected the belief, commonly held by the late 1950s, that a growing proportion of manual workers was beginning to support the Conservative Party as a result of attaining a middle class level of income and material possessions…
Is Britain's two-party system really about to crumble
Did the British marginals vanish? Proportionality and exaggeration in the British electoral system revisited
The Opinion Polls: Confidence Restored
Journal Article The Opinion Polls: Confidence Restored? Get access IVOR CREWE IVOR CREWE *Vice Chancellor of the University of Essex and Professor of Government Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 569–585, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028756 Published: 01 October 1997
Partisanship and Policy Choice: Issue Preferences in the British Electorate, February 1974
Inherent in many models of voting, as well as in defences of representative democracy, is the assumption that the voting public has knowledge of and opinions about public policy issues. In recent years in the United States a stream of scholarly articles has been devoted to assessing not just the extent to which issue knowledge and opinions exist but also the extent to which they influence electoral decisions. This new literature suggests that iss…
The Reputation of Political Science Journals: Pluralist and Consensus Views
Individual scholars and their departments are increasingly judged according to the alleged ‘quality’ of the academic journals in which they publish. This article is the first systematic attempt to measure the reputation of political science journals and is designed for comparison with American academics' evaluations. It explores academics' criteria for judging journals, the consensus of judgement on any one journal across different criteria, and …
Britain's Membership of the Eec: A Profile of Electoral Opinions in the Spring of 1974 – With a Postscript on the Referendum
The main part of this article was written well before the June 1975 referendum in Britain. As set out in the title, our objective was to draw a profile of electoral opinions during the months following the first of the two general elections in 1974. We furthermore attempted to discern and evaluate the factors that would be likely to determine the setting for the actual referendum. Rather than rewriting this analysis with the benefit of hindsight,…
The Opinion Polls: The Election They Got (Almost) Right
Journal Article The Opinion Polls: The Election They Got (Almost) Right Get access Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe Professor of Government and Vice Chancellor of Essex University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 684–698, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi074 Published: 01 October 2005
Changing votes and unchanging voters
Social Conservatism and the Middle Classes in Germany, 1914-1933
The Westminster Lobby Correspondents
Public Opinion Polls and British Politics
Democracy and Community: A Study of Politics in Sheffield
The Higher Civil Service in Britain
The Politics of ‘Affluent’ and ‘Traditional’ Workers in Britain: An Aggregate Data Analysis
In their study of the ‘affluent worker’ in Luton,1 Goldthorpe and his colleagues reached a number of important conclusions about the political behaviour of the ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ working class in post-war Britain. They rejected the belief, commonly held by the late 1950s, that a growing proportion of manual workers was beginning to support the Conservative Party as a result of attaining a middle class level of income and material possessions…
Do Butler and Stokes Really Explain Political Change in Britain
Butler and Stokes’Political Change in Britain is reviewed, and criticised for focussing on a notion of electoral change which is singularly restrictive and which, moreover, has been noticeably absent in post‐war Britain compared with other Western democracies. Three other kinds of electoral change, although ignored in the book, are shown to have been peculiar to Britain since 1945. These are (i) a persistent decline in the combined major party sh…
British Political Sociology Yearbook Vol. 1. Elites in Western Democracy
Reply to Hope's Note
Hope's comments provide me with the opportunity to correct one statistical error which unfortunately found its way into the original article. He points out that, as the correlations r ac and r bc were each about +0.2, deviations from the expected level of car- and house-ownership given a constituency's proportion of manual workers can only account for about 4 per cent of the variance in deviations from the expected Conservative share of the two-p…
Political Change in Britain: The Evolution of Electoral Choice
Britain's Membership of the Eec: A Profile of Electoral Opinions in the Spring of 1974 – With a Postscript on the Referendum
The main part of this article was written well before the June 1975 referendum in Britain. As set out in the title, our objective was to draw a profile of electoral opinions during the months following the first of the two general elections in 1974. We furthermore attempted to discern and evaluate the factors that would be likely to determine the setting for the actual referendum. Rather than rewriting this analysis with the benefit of hindsight,…
Another Game with Nature: An Ecological Regression Model of the British Two-Party Vote Ratio in 1970
This article develops a number of themes first raised in an earlier paper where we attempted to publicize the existence of Census data based, for the first time, on British parliamentary constituencies, and where we briefly described the potential and limits of a variety of available statistical techniques of analysis. Until the earlier paper was published, studies of British electoral behaviour using aggregate data were largely historical, gener…
Partisanship and Policy Choice: Issue Preferences in the British Electorate, February 1974
Inherent in many models of voting, as well as in defences of representative democracy, is the assumption that the voting public has knowledge of and opinions about public policy issues. In recent years in the United States a stream of scholarly articles has been devoted to assessing not just the extent to which issue knowledge and opinions exist but also the extent to which they influence electoral decisions. This new literature suggests that iss…
British Political Sociology Yearbook: Volume 2, The Politics of Race
British Political Sociology Yearbook: Volume 2, The Politics of Race
Angels in Plastic: The Liberal Surge in 1974
Before the Liberal surge in 1974, survey research stressed that the Liberal vote was electorally volatile, socially representative, and negative in character. Data from 1974 indicates that the volatility of the Liberal vote owes more to the absence of a large core of stable Liberal voters than to any difference among parties in their ability to retain the votes of recent converts. Moreover, the small core of regular Liberal voters is unusually mi…
The Connection Between SNP Voting and the Demand for Scottish Self‐government
Evidence is presented both for and against several explanatory models of SNP electoral support. There are remarkable similarities of timing and psychology between SNP support and support for Liberals or abstention in England. Yet SNP support matches attitudes towards more self‐government. It would appear that SNP support has been caused by Britain‐wide influences breaking the constraints that formerly kept the self‐government cleavage out of part…
Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964–1974
Britain enjoys a textbook reputation as the historic home and model representative of a stable two-party system. From the factors most frequently cited by way of explanation – the electoral system, the absence of cross-cutting social cleavages – it is implied that this uncommon state of affairs is a natural and permanent part of British politics. This reputation is, in fact, somewhat exaggerated. At no time have MPs or parliamentary candidates in…
Party Identification and Beyond: Representations of Voting and Party Competition
Reply to Abramson
Paul Abramson's Note (this Journal , p. 505) is an interesting exercise in comparative data reanalysis. But we do not believe that it effectively refutes our argument that partisan weakening in Britain has been caused by ‘period’ rather than ‘generational’ factors
Prospects for Party Realignment: An Anglo-American Comparison
In the wake of the wars, riots, scandals, and assassinations that convulsed America's politics during the 1960s and early 1970s, a spate of books and articles has speculated upon the future of the American party system.1 The focus of attention was the possibility of a new party system created by a similar to the three instances of 1852-56, 1896, and 1932-36. Plausible cases were made out for almost every development conceivable: for an emerging R…
The Liberal‐SDP alliance and the 1982 local elections
Is Britain's two-party system really about to crumble
The electorate: Partisan dealignment ten years on
1983). The electorate: Partisan dealignment ten years on. West European Politics: Vol. 6, Change in British Politics, pp. 183-215
Political opinion polling: An international review
Journal Article Political opinion polling: an international review Get access Political opinion polling: an international review. Edited by Robert M. Worcester. London: Macmillan. 1983. 246 pp. Index. £25.00. Ivor Crewe Ivor Crewe 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617598 Published: 01 July 198…
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