Patrick Seyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3911336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Seyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Seyd |
| SIGNATURE | SEYD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 655 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption
Over recent decades, scholars have explored political parties’ adoption of digital technology. Tracing successive eras of change, scholarship has examined the degree to which digital disrupts or embeds traditional power structures—with many studies finding evidence of ‘controlled-interactivity’. In this article, we revisit debates around the adoption of digital tools from a bottom-up perspective. Moving beyond attempts to categorise elite strateg…
Corbyn’s labour party: Managing the membership surge
Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy
There are increasing concerns about changes in society and the economy which are undermining the effectiveness of democracy and weakening traditional conceptions of citizenship. What does it mean to be a British citizen in the early part of the 21st century? This book presents the first major empirical study of citizenship in Britain, comprising surveys of political participation and voluntary activities, and of the beliefs and values which under…
The dynamics of citizenship: The effects of the general election on citizenship
British Party Members: An Overview
Party membership and activism is declining among Britain’s three major parties. Using individual membership survey data, evidence of this decline, particularly in party activism, is presented. Reasons for the decline are considered. It is suggested that choice-based rather than structural explanations are more persuasive. The impact of the decline upon the parties and the political system is considered. The article concludes that it is possible f…
Citizenship and Civic Engagement: Attitudes and Behaviour in Britain
Analysis of patterns of participation revealed three dimensions of civic activism in modern Britain: individualistic activism; contact activism; and collective activism. Three alternative theories of participation were examined to account for these dimensions: general incentives; social capital; and civic voluntarism. None proved sufficient in itself to account for civic activism in modern Britain: each provided only part of the explanation
Party Election Campaigning in Britain: The Labour Party
A modern British election campaign is multidimensional, with significant variations in party strategies over time and location. In the general elections of 1992 and 1997, the Labour Party developed innovative forms of campaigning, some of which the Conservative Party attempted to replicate in the 2001 general election. The article outlines the main features of Labour's campaign leading up to the 2001 general election. In order to evaluate the imp…
How to win a landslide by really trying: The effects of local campaigning on voting in the 1997 British general election
High-Intensity Participation: The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain
New Labour’s Grassroots: The Transformation of the Labour Party Membership
Based on a unique series of surveys conducted during the 1990s, this book examines changes in the social backgrounds, attitudes, beliefs and political activities of Labour party members. It addresses
Citizenship in Britain: Attitudes and Behaviour
The Labour Campaign
Journal Article The Labour Campaign Get access Patrick Seyd Patrick Seyd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 607–623, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.607 Published: 01 October 2001
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys — The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
New Parties/New Politics: A Case Study of the British Labour Party
Britain's two major parties have rediscovered their members. For a variety of reasons both the Labour and Conservative parties have adopted pro-active recruitment strategies. At the same time, they have introduced direct democracy as an important part of their internal procedures. A detailed study of Labour's reforms suggests various possible implications for the future, including the fact that the plebiscitarian party might be an increasingly co…
Labour's grassroots campaign in 1997
(1998). Labour's grassroots campaign in 1997. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 191-207
In Praise of Party
Journal Article In Praise of Party Get access PATRICK SEYD PATRICK SEYD *Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 198–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028784 Published: 01 April 1998
The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain: A Spiral of Demobilization
Changes in activism among grassroots members of the Labour and Conservative parties in Britain are modelled using panel surveys in this article, with party members being surveyed before and after the 1992 general election. The evidence suggests that a decline in activism over time has occurred in both parties, but this decline is greater in the Labour party than in the Conservative party. This is attributed to a number of political, cultural and …
Introduction: Rationality and political decision‐making
The Politics of Anti-Partyism
Journal Article The Politics of Anti-Partyism Get access ARTHUR LIPOW, ARTHUR LIPOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PATRICK SEYD PATRICK SEYD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 273–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028679 Published: 01 April 1996
Rationality and party activism: Encompassing tests of alternative models of political participation
The purpose of this paper is to test a rational actor model of political participation against rival models to see which provides the best theoretical account of participation. This is done using data from the first panel survey of Labour party members in Britain. The tests use encompassing methodology, an approach to model building which arises out of recent developments in applied econometrics. The rational choice model is tested against a soci…
L'évolution récente des adhérents du Parti conservateur et du Parti travailliste en Grande-Bretagne
Les adhérents des partis jouent un rôle important dans la vie politique britannique, pour la désignation des candidats, la collecte des fonds, la formation de l'opinion et l'animation des campagnes électorales. Des sondages récents fournissent des données concernant le profil social et les attitudes politiques des membres du Parti conservateur et du Parti travailliste; ils mettent en lumière les différences entre leurs croyances idéologiques sous…
The Future of Socialism”: A Symposium
Political Parties and the Challenge to Democracy: From Steam-Engines to Techno-Populism
(1995). Political parties and the challenge to democracy: From steam‐engines to techno‐populism. New Political Science: Vol. 17, Contemporary British Politics, pp. 295-308
Labour and Conservative Party Members: Change Over Time
Journal Article Labour and Conservative Party Members:Change Over Time Get access PATRICK SEYD, PATRICK SEYD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PAUL F. WHITELEY PAUL F. WHITELEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 456–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052545 Published: 01 July 1995
True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership
The Conservative Party is one of the most successful political parties in the western world. Its success has been built on its large grass roots membership. And yet that membership appears to be increasingly disaffected and in decline. This book is the first in depth study of this crucial section of the Conservative Party. Drawing on new and revealing survey data, it paints a fascinating picture of the social make-up and political views of a gras…
Citizenship and Civic Engagement: Attitudes and Behaviour in Britain
Analysis of patterns of participation revealed three dimensions of civic activism in modern Britain: individualistic activism; contact activism; and collective activism. Three alternative theories of participation were examined to account for these dimensions: general incentives; social capital; and civic voluntarism. None proved sufficient in itself to account for civic activism in modern Britain: each provided only part of the explanation
Local Party Campaigning and Electoral Mobilization in Britain
Research on the effects of local election campaigning by party activists on electoral behavior has been confined almost entirely to the United States, where most findings suggest that there are significant effects. This note discusses reasons why such effects are also likely to exist, and may even be stronger, in Britain than in the United States. It then goes on to estimate models of the turnout and vote share for the Labour party in the 1987 ge…
British Party Members: An Overview
Party membership and activism is declining among Britain’s three major parties. Using individual membership survey data, evidence of this decline, particularly in party activism, is presented. Reasons for the decline are considered. It is suggested that choice-based rather than structural explanations are more persuasive. The impact of the decline upon the parties and the political system is considered. The article concludes that it is possible f…
New Parties/New Politics: A Case Study of the British Labour Party
Britain's two major parties have rediscovered their members. For a variety of reasons both the Labour and Conservative parties have adopted pro-active recruitment strategies. At the same time, they have introduced direct democracy as an important part of their internal procedures. A detailed study of Labour's reforms suggests various possible implications for the future, including the fact that the plebiscitarian party might be an increasingly co…
The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain: A Spiral of Demobilization
Changes in activism among grassroots members of the Labour and Conservative parties in Britain are modelled using panel surveys in this article, with party members being surveyed before and after the 1992 general election. The evidence suggests that a decline in activism over time has occurred in both parties, but this decline is greater in the Labour party than in the Conservative party. This is attributed to a number of political, cultural and …
How to win a landslide by really trying: The effects of local campaigning on voting in the 1997 British general election
Measuring Local Campaign Effects: Labour Party Constituency Campaigning at the 1987 General Election
Thursday 31 March: Polling day. To headquarters at about 9 and from 9.30 am to 6 visiting all the polling stations and committee rooms. We had lunch at the ‘Hole-in-the-Wall’ and then went out again with our loudspeaker, doing final knocking up. After the polls closed we cleared up the headquarters, went back to the hotel and began watching the BBC Election programme. It was evident that a big Labour victory was coming ...1
Rationality and party activism: Encompassing tests of alternative models of political participation
The purpose of this paper is to test a rational actor model of political participation against rival models to see which provides the best theoretical account of participation. This is done using data from the first panel survey of Labour party members in Britain. The tests use encompassing methodology, an approach to model building which arises out of recent developments in applied econometrics. The rational choice model is tested against a soci…
Explaining Party Activism: The Case of the British Conservative Party
In common with most other mass democratic parties the Conservative party has a large group of active members who sustain the party over time. A model is developed to explain variations in activism within the party, which takes account of the ‘paradox of participation’. The results, based on the first national random sample survey of Conservative party members, show that activism is motivated by three classes of factors. Activism is motivated, fir…
Radical Sheffield: From Socialism to Entrepreneurialism
Party Election Campaigning in Britain: The Labour Party
A modern British election campaign is multidimensional, with significant variations in party strategies over time and location. In the general elections of 1992 and 1997, the Labour Party developed innovative forms of campaigning, some of which the Conservative Party attempted to replicate in the 2001 general election. The article outlines the main features of Labour's campaign leading up to the 2001 general election. In order to evaluate the imp…
The Politics of Anti-Partyism
Journal Article The Politics of Anti-Partyism Get access ARTHUR LIPOW, ARTHUR LIPOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PATRICK SEYD PATRICK SEYD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 273–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028679 Published: 01 April 1996
Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption
Over recent decades, scholars have explored political parties’ adoption of digital technology. Tracing successive eras of change, scholarship has examined the degree to which digital disrupts or embeds traditional power structures—with many studies finding evidence of ‘controlled-interactivity’. In this article, we revisit debates around the adoption of digital tools from a bottom-up perspective. Moving beyond attempts to categorise elite strateg…
Labour's Vote and Local Activism: The Impact of Local Constituency Campaigns
Factionalism within the Conservative Party: The Monday Club
IT HAS BEEN ARGUED THAT FACTIONALISM WHILST APPARENT IN THE Labour Party has no counterpart within the Conservative Party. For example, the authors of a study on the opinions of backbench conservative MPs concluded that disagreements are amongst ‘ad hoc groups’ and that as new issues arise ‘the coherence of the former groups dissolves and new alignments appear. . . .’ A more recent survey of conservative backbenchers concurs with this and argues …
Thatcherism and the Conservative Party
Neither spatial models of party competition nor the ‘Westminster’ model of British politics explain the phenomenon of Thatcherism. One explanation of its success, examined by Crewe and Searing, suggests that Mrs Thatcher sought to convert the Conservative party and the wider electorate to her distinctive brand of liberal Whiggism and traditional Toryism. They found little evidence of the success of this, however, among the British electorate as a…
Corbyn’s labour party: Managing the membership surge
Shelter: The National Campaign for the Homeless
Citizenship in Britain: Attitudes and Behaviour
In Praise of Party
Journal Article In Praise of Party Get access PATRICK SEYD PATRICK SEYD *Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 198–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028784 Published: 01 April 1998
Political Parties and the Challenge to Democracy: From Steam-Engines to Techno-Populism
(1995). Political parties and the challenge to democracy: From steam‐engines to techno‐populism. New Political Science: Vol. 17, Contemporary British Politics, pp. 295-308
Democracy Within the Conservative Party
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The Labour Campaign
Journal Article The Labour Campaign Get access Patrick Seyd Patrick Seyd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 607–623, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.607 Published: 01 October 2001
The Child Poverty Action Group
Labour's grassroots campaign in 1997
(1998). Labour's grassroots campaign in 1997. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 191-207
Factionalism within the Conservative Party: The Monday Club
IT HAS BEEN ARGUED THAT FACTIONALISM WHILST APPARENT IN THE Labour Party has no counterpart within the Conservative Party. For example, the authors of a study on the opinions of backbench conservative MPs concluded that disagreements are amongst ‘ad hoc groups’ and that as new issues arise ‘the coherence of the former groups dissolves and new alignments appear. . . .’ A more recent survey of conservative backbenchers concurs with this and argues …
The Fabians and the Labour Party
Shelter: The National Campaign for the Homeless
Democracy Within the Conservative Party
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Child Poverty Action Group
Labour Party Reform
Powell, Right and Extreme Right
POWELL, RIGHT AND EXTREME RIGHT Get access Patrick Seyd Patrick Seyd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, Spring 1978, Pages 231–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054260 Published: 01 March 1978
Radical Sheffield: From Socialism to Entrepreneurialism
Labour’s Grass Roots: The Politics of Party Membership
Who belongs to the Labour Party and why? What are their opinions about politics and society, or about the `new model' party of Neil Kinnock? After the electoral debacle of 1983 the Labour leadership embarked on a strategy of modernization in order to win back some of their lost support. The leadership has consistently tried to empower the party members at the expense of the trade unions and the party activists. But this strategy has been a `leap …
Labour's Vote and Local Activism: The Impact of Local Constituency Campaigns
True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership
The Conservative Party is one of the most successful political parties in the western world. Its success has been built on its large grass roots membership. And yet that membership appears to be increasingly disaffected and in decline. This book is the first in depth study of this crucial section of the Conservative Party. Drawing on new and revealing survey data, it paints a fascinating picture of the social make-up and political views of a gras…
Local Party Campaigning and Electoral Mobilization in Britain
Research on the effects of local election campaigning by party activists on electoral behavior has been confined almost entirely to the United States, where most findings suggest that there are significant effects. This note discusses reasons why such effects are also likely to exist, and may even be stronger, in Britain than in the United States. It then goes on to estimate models of the turnout and vote share for the Labour party in the 1987 ge…
Thatcherism and the Conservative Party
Neither spatial models of party competition nor the ‘Westminster’ model of British politics explain the phenomenon of Thatcherism. One explanation of its success, examined by Crewe and Searing, suggests that Mrs Thatcher sought to convert the Conservative party and the wider electorate to her distinctive brand of liberal Whiggism and traditional Toryism. They found little evidence of the success of this, however, among the British electorate as a…
Measuring Local Campaign Effects: Labour Party Constituency Campaigning at the 1987 General Election
Thursday 31 March: Polling day. To headquarters at about 9 and from 9.30 am to 6 visiting all the polling stations and committee rooms. We had lunch at the ‘Hole-in-the-Wall’ and then went out again with our loudspeaker, doing final knocking up. After the polls closed we cleared up the headquarters, went back to the hotel and began watching the BBC Election programme. It was evident that a big Labour victory was coming ...1
Explaining Party Activism: The Case of the British Conservative Party
In common with most other mass democratic parties the Conservative party has a large group of active members who sustain the party over time. A model is developed to explain variations in activism within the party, which takes account of the ‘paradox of participation’. The results, based on the first national random sample survey of Conservative party members, show that activism is motivated by three classes of factors. Activism is motivated, fir…
The Future of Socialism”: A Symposium
Political Parties and the Challenge to Democracy: From Steam-Engines to Techno-Populism
(1995). Political parties and the challenge to democracy: From steam‐engines to techno‐populism. New Political Science: Vol. 17, Contemporary British Politics, pp. 295-308
Labour and Conservative Party Members: Change Over Time
Journal Article Labour and Conservative Party Members:Change Over Time Get access PATRICK SEYD, PATRICK SEYD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PAUL F. WHITELEY PAUL F. WHITELEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 456–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052545 Published: 01 July 1995
Introduction: Rationality and political decision‐making
The Politics of Anti-Partyism
Journal Article The Politics of Anti-Partyism Get access ARTHUR LIPOW, ARTHUR LIPOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PATRICK SEYD PATRICK SEYD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 273–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028679 Published: 01 April 1996
Rationality and party activism: Encompassing tests of alternative models of political participation
The purpose of this paper is to test a rational actor model of political participation against rival models to see which provides the best theoretical account of participation. This is done using data from the first panel survey of Labour party members in Britain. The tests use encompassing methodology, an approach to model building which arises out of recent developments in applied econometrics. The rational choice model is tested against a soci…
L'évolution récente des adhérents du Parti conservateur et du Parti travailliste en Grande-Bretagne
Les adhérents des partis jouent un rôle important dans la vie politique britannique, pour la désignation des candidats, la collecte des fonds, la formation de l'opinion et l'animation des campagnes électorales. Des sondages récents fournissent des données concernant le profil social et les attitudes politiques des membres du Parti conservateur et du Parti travailliste; ils mettent en lumière les différences entre leurs croyances idéologiques sous…
Labour's grassroots campaign in 1997
(1998). Labour's grassroots campaign in 1997. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 191-207
In Praise of Party
Journal Article In Praise of Party Get access PATRICK SEYD PATRICK SEYD *Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 198–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028784 Published: 01 April 1998
The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain: A Spiral of Demobilization
Changes in activism among grassroots members of the Labour and Conservative parties in Britain are modelled using panel surveys in this article, with party members being surveyed before and after the 1992 general election. The evidence suggests that a decline in activism over time has occurred in both parties, but this decline is greater in the Labour party than in the Conservative party. This is attributed to a number of political, cultural and …
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