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The policy opinions of British nonvoters; a research note
Author(s) -
STUDLAR Donley T.,
WELCH Susan
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1986.tb00826.x
Subject(s) - ideology , democracy , class (philosophy) , social class , political science , public opinion , sociology , general election , social democracy , positive economics , social science , law , politics , epistemology , economics , philosophy
. Using data from the British Election Studies of 1974 and 1979, patterns of nonvoting among the British public are explored. Nonvoters are much like voters in specific issue opinions and in social class. They do not have a strong ideology or a markedly different attitudinal structure than their fellow citizens. Implications of this for British democracy are discussed.