caa a22 4500 475840798 CHVBK 20180406123900.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005010417807 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005010417807 Fielding David Department of Economics, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, U.K. aut Social and Economic Determinants of English Voter Choice in the 1997 General Election [Elektronische Daten] [David Fielding] Using a theoretical framework in which voters' choicesare the result of utility maximisation decisions, andin which the variation of utility functions acrossindividuals is partly deterministic (depending ontheir socio-economic characteristics) and partlystochastic, we estimate constituency-level regressionequations to explain how the electoral shares of eachof the main parties depend on conditions in theconstituency. Whilst social characteristics appear tohave an impact similar to that predicted in theexisting literature, economic conditions appear tohave played a very different role in 1997 from inprevious elections. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 102/3-4(2000-03-01), 271-295 0048-5829 102:3-4<271 2000 102 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005010417807 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005010417807 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fielding David Department of Economics, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, U.K aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 102/3-4(2000-03-01), 271-295 0048-5829 102:3-4<271 2000 102 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer