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Professor David Denver

Professor David Denver

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Research Interests

Professor David Denver specialises in studying elections and also has a research interest in Scottish politics. He is the author of a widely used text on electoral behaviour (Elections and Voters in Britain) and of numerous other pieces on the subject. Among other positions held, he is the Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties and Chair of the publications subcommittee of the Political Studies Association.

David is a nationally known figure in his field - frequently commenting on matters connected with elections in the press, radio and television, especially in Scotland. In his spare time David sings in the university choir and plays golf.

Research Grants Recent research funding has included awards from the Electoral Commission to study the North East regional referendum (2004) and constituency campaigning in the 2005 general election, and from the ESRC to work on a compilation of local election results in Britain.

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Publications

Among the recent publications are:

Elections and Voters in Britain (Palgrave, 2003).

Media Guide to the New Scottish Constituencies (LGC Elections Centre, 2004).

Central Debates in British Politics (joint editor) (Pearson, 2003).

'The results: how Britain voted' in A. Geddes and J. Tonge, Britain Decides: The UK General Election 2005 (Palgrave, 2005).

'The electoral impact of constituency campaigning in Britain, 1992-2003', Political Studies, Vol. 52 No 2, June 2004.

'Exploring Variations in Turnout: Constituencies and Wards in the Scottish Parliament elections of 1999 and 2003', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.6 No. 4, 2004.

'Labour's targeted constituency campaigning: nationally directed or locally produced?', Electoral Studies, Vol.23 No. 4 (December 2004)

'Valence Politics: How Britain Votes Now', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 7 No. 2, May 2005

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

David Denver has 9 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Denver, David T. (2006) Elections and Voters in Britain (2nd edition). Palgrave. ISBN 0230001599

Denver, David T. (2005) The results : how Britain voted. In: Britain decides : the UK general election 2005. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 6-21. ISBN 1403946566

Denver, David T. (2005) 'Valence politics' : how Britain votes now. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 7 (2). pp. 292-299. ISSN 1369-1481

Denver, David and Hands, Gordon (2004) Exploring Variations in Turnout: Constituencies and Wards in the Scottish Parliament Elections of 1999 and 2003. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 6 (4). pp. 527-542. ISSN (printed): 1369-1481. ISSN (electronic): 1467-856X.

Hands, H. T. Gordon and Denver, David (2004) Labour's targeted constituency campaigning: nationally directed or locally produced? Electoral Studies, 23 (4). pp. 709-726. ISSN 02613794

Denver, David (2004) Media Guide to the New Scottish Constituencies. LGC Elections Centre.

Denver, David T. and Hands, Gordon and MacAllister, I. (2004) The electoral impact of constituency campaigning in Britain, 1992-2003. Political Studies, 52 (2). pp. 289-306. ISSN 1467-9248

Denver, David. T. (2002) Elections and Voting. In: Central debates in British politics. Longman, Harlow, pp. 157-170. ISBN 058243727X

Denver, David T. (2002) Referendums. In: Central debates in British politics. Longman, Harlow, pp. 83-96. ISBN 9780582437272


Associated Keywords: Campaigning, Election campaigning, Elections, Politics, Voting

 

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