[Nuffield Election Studies 19] • The British General Election of 2015 by Cowley, Philip -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Illustrations List of Plates Preface 1 I’m Afraid There is No Money: Five Years of Coalition

Chronology of events from May 2010 to December 2014 Notes

2 How Hard Can it Be? The Conservatives

Notes

3 Brand Failure: Labour

Notes

4 Zugzwang: The Liberal Democrats and Others

The Liberal Democrats UKIP The Green Party Plaid Cymru Respect The British National Party Northern Ireland Notes

5 The Long and the Short of the SNP Breakthrough

Richard Rose and Mark Shephard The introduction of a two-election system The referendum: a different question and outcome FPTP puts the SNP first Notes

6 Roads and Car Crashes: The Election Approaches

Chronology of events from 1 January 2015 to 29 March 2015 Notes

7 Dead Cats and Bogy Men: The National Campaign

Campaign chronology Notes

8 Different Scripts Required: Election Night

Notes

9 Margin of Error: The Polls

Notes

10 Where to Drop the Bombs: The Constituency Battle

Notes

11 The Battle for the Stage: Broadcasting

Charlie Beckett Debate negotiations The TV debates Other programmes The campaign news coverage Future policy Conclusion Notes

12 Still Life in the Old Attack Dogs: The Press

David Deacon and Dominic Wring Still a critical mass medium Polarised and polemical: ‘popular’ partisanship Qualified judgements Front-page news The ‘horse race’ campaign Follow the money The constitution and other issues Voting by newspaper Conclusion Notes

13 Variable Diversity: MPs and Candidates

Byron Criddle Notes

14 Out of the Blue: The Campaign in Retrospect

Notes

Appendix 1: The Results Analysed

John Curtice, Stephen D. Fisher and Robert Ford Introduction England and Wales Scotland Turnout across Great Britain The electoral system Notes

Appendix 2: The Voting Statistics Index