Would a hung Parliament have made any difference?
Martin Pugh, 21 July 1983
Governing without a Majority
by David Butler.
Collins, 156 pp., £4.95, May 1983,9780002170710 Show More
by David Butler.
Collins, 156 pp., £4.95, May 1983,
Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 207 pp., £18.50, May 1983,0 521 25524 4 Show More
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 207 pp., £18.50, May 1983,
Decade of Dealignment
by Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe, Neil Day and Robert MacDermid.
Cambridge, 393 pp., £27.50, June 1983,0 521 22674 0 Show More
by Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe, Neil Day and Robert MacDermid.
Cambridge, 393 pp., £27.50, June 1983,
“... is not simply an ephemeral spasm of protest, and which makes the future uncertain and fascinating; Särlvik and Crewe, as befits men who are operating at the treacherous coalface of voting patterns, show more caution, it is true, but even they see a significant long-term shift among the electorate in the elections of 1970, 1974 and 1979, which 1983 has surely ... ”