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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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General Election Wash-Up

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Clive Field

Prior to the general election we made a number of posts touching on the relationship between religion and politics/voting. Now that the results are in, we can report a few more snippets of information which touch on this theme. On … Continue reading →

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Saliency of Political Issues

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Clive Field

We have already noted one headline finding from the online Cpanel survey of 422 practising Christians conducted by ComRes for Premier Christian Radio between 30 March and 12 April 2010 (‘Christians and the general election’, 19 April). Hot off the … Continue reading →

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Christians and the General Election

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Clive Field

Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats may currently be riding on the crest of a wave following last Thursday’s televised leadership debate, but he appears to have a lot of ground to make up with practising Christians in the UK. … Continue reading →

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