Aspects of the Interrelationships of Attitudes and Behaviour as Illustrated by a Longitudinal Study of British Adults

1. Interactions among Attitudes and Changing Voting Intentions

Bibliographic Data

ID4139563
AuthorsRon Johnston (0000-0003-3031-8573, University of Bristol, corresponding author), R J Johnston (0000-0001-7523-2701, University of Bristol), C J Pattie (University of Sheffield), Charles Pattie (0000-0003-4578-178X, University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume31
Issue5
Pages899-923
Publication date1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a310899
OpenAlexW2026417809
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Most models of people's voting intentions suggest that the choice of party to support is a function not only of external influences in the individual's home, neighbourhood, and workplace but also of their attitudes-their perspectives on society, their goals and values, their opinions on contemporary social and political issues, and their degree of attachment (if any) to the political parties and their programmes. Those models have been tested in Great Britain on many occasions, though the data employed rarely allow detailed exploration of all aspects of the many interrelationships suggested. In particular, the great majority of studies are cross-sectional in nature, and although most produce the same general findings, indicating stability in attitudes and their links to behaviour at the aggregate level, they do not allow study of whether such stability is also characteristic of individuals. With data provided by the first four waves of a large panel study of British adults (the British Household Panel Survey) this first paper in a series exploring the stability of attitude-behaviour links over time tests five hypotheses regarding the interrelations among attitudes, party identification, and voting (or voting intention) during the period 1991-94, and finds very strong support for all five

Aggregate data · British Household Panel Survey · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · General Social Survey · Panel data · Panel survey · Political science · Politics · Survey data collection · Voting · Voting behavior · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology

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