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"British voting behaviour can be explained in one word: class. "Discuss this by evaluating the competing explanations for the way people vote in Britain.
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"British voting behaviour can be explained in one word: class." Discuss this by evaluating the competing explanations for the way people vote in Britain. Many factors are said to influence voting behaviour, however in many areas the extent to which this is true is unclear. Possibly the most commonly thought factor which influences voting behaviour is class. Pulzer1 claimed ' class is the basis of British party politics; all alse is embellishment and detail.' Traditionally political commentators have identified social class as the most important factor associated with voting behaviour. Thiagree with the notion that working class people are more likely to vote Labour and that middle class people are more likely to vote conservative and, up until the late 1970's there appeared to be statistical evidence of people voting for their traditional class party. Since then, the evidence for this has weakened significantly and class can only be considered as...
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