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British Election Panel Study, 1992-1997

British General Election Panel Study, 1987-1992

British General Election Study, 1992; Cross-Section Survey

1970 British Cohort Study: Age 21 Sample Survey, 1992

British Elections, 1963-1992

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Summary information

Study title

British Candidate Study, 1992

Creator

Lovenduski, J., Loughborough University of Technology, Department of European Studies
Norris, P., Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Study number / PID

3287 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3287-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


This dataset consists of two files:
1. The survey of party members (members.por) included 1,634 Labour and Conservative activists who attended 26 selection meetings in contituencies throughout Britain. The constituencies to which the researchers had access were chosen to be broadly representative in terms of party, major census region, and marginality.
2. The survey of parliamentary candidates (elite.por) included 1,320 MPs and prospective parliamentary candidates who were selected by constituencies for the April 1992 General Election at the time of the fieldwork. The survey included MPs and PPCs for the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish National, Plaid Cymru and Green parties. Incumbent MPs who were retiring and independents were excluded. The survey also included 361 applicants who failed to be selected to become candidates.

Topics

Elites and leadershipPolitical behaviour and attitudes

Keywords

ABORTIONAGEATTITUDESBRITISH POLITICAL PARTIESCENSORSHIPCHILDRENCONSTITUENCIESCORRESPONDENCECOUNCILLORSDEATH PENALTYDECENTRALIZED GOVERNMENTDECISION MAKING
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1990 - 01/10/1991

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
National
Members of Parliament
Parliamentary candidates
Political party members

Universe

Party members: The 26 seats included were Beckenham, Sutton and Cheam, Feltham and Heston, Croydon North East, Putney, Brentford and Isleworth, Eastleigh, Milton Keynes North East, Gloucester, Bristol West, Colne Valley, Ashfield, Dudley West, Stoke on Trent South, Warley East, Monmouth, Manchester Withington, Glanford and Scunthorpe, Leeds South and Morley, Oldham Central and Royton, Littleborough and Saddleworth, Edinburgh Central, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Caithness and Sutherland, Dumfries. Parliamentary candidates: This included MPs and PPCs for the major parties in Great Britain.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)
Simple random sample
All parliamentary candidates were included in the survey, and a simple random sample of party members.

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey
Self-completion

Funding information

Grant number

R000231991

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1996

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

  • Norris, P. and Lovenduski, J. (1989) 'Women candidates for Parliament :: transforming the agenda?', British Journal of Political Science, 106-115
  • Vallance, E., Norris, P. and Lovenduski, J. (1992) 'Do candidates make a difference?: gender, race, ideology and incumbency', Parliamentary Affairs, 496–517
  • Lovenduski, J. and Norris, P. (1991) 'Party rules and women's representation:: Reforming the British Labour party', British Elections and Parties Yearbook, 189-206
  • Lovenduski, J. and Norris, P. (1993) '‘If Only More Candidates Came Forward’:: Supply-Side Explanations of Candidate Selection in Britain', British Journal of Political Science, 373-408
  • Carty, R., Norris, P., Erickson, L., Lovenduski, J. and Simms, M. (1990) 'Party selectorates in Australia, Britain and Canada :: prolegomena for research in the 1990s', The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 219-245
  • Norris, P. and Lovenduski, J. (1993) 'Labour and the Unions:: After the Brighton Conference', Government and Opposition, 201-217
  • Norris, P., Lovenduski, J. and Geddes, A. (1991) 'Candidate selection :: reform in Britain', Contemporary Record, 19-22
  • Norris, P. and Lovenduski, J. (1995) Political recruitment :: gender, race and class in the British Parliament, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0521469619 | 9780521465588
  • Norris, P. (1995) 'May's Law of Curvilinear Disparity revisited:: Leaders, Officers, Members and Voters in British Political Parties', Party Politics, 29-47
  • Geddes, A., Norris, P. and Lovenduski, J. (1992) 'Race and parliamentary representation', British Elections and Parties Yearbook, 92-110
  • Norris, P., Burness, C. and Lovenduski, J. (1994) 'The Party and women' in A. Seldon and S. Ball (eds.), , Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0198202385 | 9780198202387
  • Norris, P. (1994) 'Labour Party fragmentation and extremism' , Aldershot: Dartmouth. ISBN1855214598 | 9781855214774
  • Lovenduski, J. and Norris, P. (1989) 'Selecting women candidates :: obstacles to the feminisation of the House of Commons', European Journal of Political Research, 533–562