ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Constituency Campaigning in the 1997 General Election </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:3922</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Denver, D.T.<br>Hands, G.<br>Lancaster University. Department of Politics and International Relations<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsor</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Economic and Social Research Council<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> August 1999 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Denver, D.T. and Hands, G., <i> Constituency Campaigning in the 1997 General Election</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], August 1999. SN: 3922, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3922-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> D. Denver and G. Hands </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 3922 . Constituency Campaigning in the 1997 General Election<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Denver, D.T. , Lancaster University. Department of Politics and International Relations</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Denver, D.T. , Lancaster University. Department of Politics and International Relations</h5> <h5>Hands, G. , Lancaster University. Department of Politics and International Relations</h5> <H3>Sponsor:</H3><H5> Economic and Social Research Council<br> <i class='myclass'> Grant Number:</i> R000222027 </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>Over the last decade, there has been a renewal of interest in, and revaluation of, the effects of local constituency campaigning on the part of both academics and political parties. From the 1950s to the 1980s, as campaigning became more 'nationalised' - dominated by party leaders and focused almost exclusively on the national mass media - local constituency campaigns came to be seen as rather meaningless side-shows. During the 1980s, however, a significant 'revisionist' literature appeared, suggesting that effective and intense constituency campaigning could have a significant impact in terms of improved electoral performance by the parties and, partly as a consequence of this, the parties themselves have recently placed much more emphasis on local campaigning.<br> <br> Four studies have been conducted in this series so far and are currently available from the UK Data Archive. These cover the 1992 election (held under SN 3587), the 1997 election (SN 3922), 2001 election (SN 4508) and the 2010 election (SN 6830).<br>For the second study in the series, conducted after the 1997 general election, the principal investigators aimed to monitor changes in campaign techniques, develop further an index of campaign strength and to analyse the impact of variations in campaign intensity upon constituency election results.</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5> The dataset comprises the responses to a postal survey of election agents of the major parties - Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru - in 1997. The questionnaire was concerned with campaign preparations, organisation and activity and details of polling-day operations.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'> Time Period Covered:</i> March 1997 - May 1997 <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> 2 May 1997 - 30 September 1997 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Great Britain <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> (A)Parliamentary Constituencies; (B)Standard Regions <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals; Institutions/organisations <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Alpha/numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Units studied are the constituency organisations of the major political parties. Responses to the questionnaire were sought from election agents, or persons who ran the parties' 1997 general election campaigns, in individual Parliamentary constituencies in Great Britain. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study<br> surveys took place after the 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2010 general elections. <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> No sampling (total universe) <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> 2029 (target) 1382 (obtained) <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Postal survey </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 17 August 1999<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> D. Denver and G. Hands</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>4 January 2012</h5> </body></html>