Preface

Notes on Contributors

Abstracts of Articles

ARTICLES

Introduction

Lynn Bennie

Colin Rallings

Jonathan Tonge

Paul Webb

Political Knowledge and Electoral Choice

Robert Andersen

Anthony Health

Richard Sinnott

Downs, Stokes and Modified Rational Choice: Modelling Turnout in 2001

Harold D. Clarke

David Sanders

Marianne C. Stewart

Paul F. Whiteley

Old Extremism or New Moderate Centrism? The 2001 Elections in Northern Ireland

Feargal Cochrane

Jonathan Tonge

Did Devolution Make a Difference? The First Post-Devolution UK Election in Scotland

John Curtice

The Impact of Constituency Campaigning in the 2001 General Election

David Denver

Gordon Hands

Justin Fisher

Iain MacAllister

European Integration, Party Politics and Voting in the 2001 Election

Geoffrey Evans

Electoral Strategies and Female Candidacy: Comparing Trends in the 2001 and 1997 General Elections

Lisa Harrison

Distortion Magnified: New Labour and the British Electoral System, 1950--2001

Ron Johnston

David Rossiter

Charles Pattie

Danny Dorling

Trade Unions and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (2000) in the 2001 General Election: Tentative Third Parties and Trammelled Officers

Steve Ludlam

Andrew J. Taylor

Paul Allender

The Barnett Formula and the 2001 General Election

James Mitchell

Fraser Nelson

Micro-Geography and Socialization: New Ways of Investigating the Turnout Problem

Scott Orford

Andrew Schuman

Was There a Rural Rebellion? Labour and the Countryside Vote in the 2001 General Election

Michael Woods

Why Do the Conservatives Always Do (Even) Worse in Wales?

Richard Wyn Jones

Roger Scully

Dafydd Trystan

REFERENCE SECTION

Chronology of Major Political Events 2001

Summary Results of the 2001 General Election

Parliamentary By-elections 1997--2001

Public Opinion Polls 2001

Local Elections 2001