Author Archives: Ben Clements

The Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES)

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Ben Clements

This BRIN post reports various attitudes and behaviour for the May 2010 general election by ethnic group in a series of cross-tabulations, using the EMBES survey. It looks at interest in the electon, voting rates, how the respondent voted, party choice in 2010 and 2005, and likeability ratings of major and minor political parties.
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Attitudes towards the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts: Data from the British Election Study

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Ben Clements

A series of questions in the British Election Study taps into views on both long-standing policy debates and more recent political issues. For instance, by using evidence from the BES 2005 and the BES 2009/10 we can compare attitudes on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts by religious affiliation. Continue reading →

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Religious Affiliation and Political Attitudes: Findings from the British Election Study 2009/10

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Ben Clements

The British Election Study (BES) 2009/10 has recently made available online for wider usage survey datasets relating to the May general election. The BES has covered every general election, and thus gauged the political choices and attitudes of nationally-representative samples of the British electorate, since 1964 and more information on both the current and previous studies is available at http://bes.utdallas.edu/2009/. Continue reading →

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