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Why has voting behaviour become increasingly more difficult to predict?
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Mrs Smith's Politics Essay on Voting Behaviour By Chris Armstrong Question:- Why has voting behaviour become increasingly more difficult to predict? Voting behaviour is increasingly hard to predict because of the variables that ultimately affect it, these being class, gender, age, ethnicity and regional locality. It is the job of a political scientist to weigh up these factors along with public opinion on major and current issues such as the Health Service, Crime etc. In addition to these they will look at past elections and their statistics to determine the possible result of an imminent election. Research in the 1950's and 60's in Britain and the USA indicates that all the factors that might contribute to a persons voting behaviour such as religion, gender, age and regional locality; social class was by far the most accurate variable that political scientists could predict an outcome of an election on. Put crudely, in Britain at...
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