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- PhD Political Science University of Oxford
- Bachelors Economics London School of Economics
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Thrasher is a British academic, Professor of Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics & Law at the University of Plymouth. He is also Sky News' election analyst. Thrasher was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1953. he received his BA in politics from the University of Liverpool in 1974. He remained in Liverpool to study for his doctoral thesis, "The political theory of English local government, 1834-1972". He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1981. He began lecturing at Plymouth in 1977, becoming Professor of Politics in 1997. He is co-director of the Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre.
Michael Thrasher's Published Works
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- Ballot Photographs as Cues in Low-Information Elections (2008) (191)
- Seasonal factors, voter fatigue and the costs of voting (2003) (72)
- Local Elections in Britain (1997) (68)
- Not All ‘Second-Order’ Contests are the Same: Turnout and Party Choice at the Concurrent 2004 Local and European Parliament Elections in England* (2005) (65)
- Media guide to the new parliamentary constituencies (1995) (60)
- Comparing local electoral turnout in Great Britain and France: More similarities than differences? (1996) (47)
- Personality politics and protest voting: the first elections to the Greater London Authority (2000) (47)
- The epidemiology of the Liberal Democrat vote (1998) (44)
- Turnout in English Local Elections: An Aggregate Analysis with Electoral and Contextual Data (1990) (36)
- The turnout ‘gap’ and the costs of voting – a comparison of participation at the 2001 general and 2002 local elections in England (2007) (32)
- Explaining Split-Ticket Voting at the 1979 and 1997 General and Local Elections in England (2003) (27)
- Women in English local government, 1973–2003: getting selected, getting elected (2007) (26)
- The local elections (1997) (25)
- Local elections in Britain : a statistical digest (1993) (24)
- ‘Just Another Expensive Talking Shop’: Public Attitudes and the 2004 Regional Assembly Referendum in the North East of England (2006) (24)
- Coalition Theory and Local Government: Coalition Payoffs in Britain (1987) (24)
- Participation in Local Elections (1996) (23)
- Mayoral Referendums and Elections (2002) (22)
- Candidate Ethnic Origins and Voter Preferences: Examining Name Discrimination in Local Elections in Britain (2015) (22)
- Forecasting the 2005 General Election: A Neural Network Approach (2005) (21)
- British public opinion during the Gulf war (1992) (20)
- Parties, Recruitment and Modernisation: Evidence from Local Election Candidates (2010) (20)
- Electoral Bias at the 2010 General Election: Evaluating its Extent in a Three‐Party System (2011) (19)
- Policy Payoffs in Local Government (1998) (18)
- Trends in Local Elections in Britain, 1975–2003 (2005) (17)
- Patterns of voting choice in multimember districts: the case of english local elections 1 This artic (1998) (17)
- A method for measuring and decomposing electoral bias for the three-party case, illustrated by the British case (2010) (17)
- Unequal and Unequally Distributed Votes: The Sources of Electoral Bias at Recent British General Elections (2012) (17)
- Changing the Boundaries but Keeping the Disproportionality: The Electoral Impact of the Fifth Periodical Reviews by the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions for England and Wales (2008) (16)
- Much Ado about Not Very Much: The Electoral Consequences of Postal Voting at the 2005 British General Election (2010) (16)
- Parliamentary Constituency Boundary Reviews and Electoral Bias: How Important are Variations in Constituency Size? (2010) (16)
- Voter Support for Minor Parties (2007) (16)
- Local votes, national forecasts – using local government by-elections in Britain to estimate party support (1999) (16)
- Ballot Order Positional Effects in British Local Elections, 1973 - 2011 (2014) (15)
- Split‐ticket voting at the 1997 British general and local elections: An aggregate analysis (1998) (15)
- Electoral salience and the costs of voting at national, sub‐national and supra‐national elections in the UK: a case study of Brent, UK (2008) (15)
- Electing Mayors: A Comparison of Different Electoral Procedures (2004) (14)
- British Electoral Facts 1832-2006 (2007) (13)
- THE EFFECTIVE USE OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE IN MAYORAL ELECTIONS: LONDON 2000 AND 2004 (2006) (13)
- Exchange Networks and Implementation (1983) (12)
- Candidate Appearance Cues in Low-Information Elections (2003) (12)
- Investigating Differences in Electoral Turnout: The Influence of Ward-Level Context on Participation in Local and Parliamentary Elections in Britain (2008) (12)
- Exploring uniformity and variability in local electoral outcomes: Some evidence from English local elections 1985–1991 (1993) (12)
- BAME Candidates in Local Elections in Britain (2013) (12)
- Local Electoral Participation in Britain (2003) (12)
- British electoral facts, 1832-1999 (2000) (12)
- Measuring the Level and Direction of Split-Ticket Voting at the 1979 and 1997 British General and Local Elections: A Survey-Based Analysis (2001) (11)
- Prevalence of medical problems among double reed performers (2001) (11)
- Selecting Indexes of Electoral Proportionality: General Properties and Relationships (2004) (11)
- Changes in the Probability of Voter Turnout When Resiting Polling Stations: A Case Study in Brent, UK (2011) (11)
- Forecasting the 2010 general election using aggregate local election data (2011) (10)
- An audit of local democracy in Britain: the evidence from local elections (1999) (10)
- Interorganizational Networks: A Case Study of Industrial Location (1981) (9)
- British Electoral Facts 1832 - 2012 (2012) (9)
- INSTANTANEOUS DATABASE ACCESS (2007) (9)
- Measuring bias: Moving from two-party to three-party elections (2008) (9)
- Trends in local elections in Britain. (2005) (8)
- The New Deal for Communities: Assessing Procedures and Voter Turnout at Partnership Board Elections (2004) (8)
- Councillors in Context: The Impact of Place upon Elected Representatives (2015) (7)
- Calculating the total vote where the district magnitude is greater than one: A test of some algorithms using British local election data (1998) (7)
- Enhancing Local Electoral Turnout: a Guide to Current Practice and Future Reform (1996) (7)
- Redistricting Local Governments in England: Rules, Procedures, and Electoral Outcomes (2004) (6)
- A social exchange approach to implementation analysis (1982) (6)
- Electoral bias at the 2015 general election: reducing Labour’s electoral advantage (2016) (6)
- Forecasting vote and seat share in local elections (1996) (6)
- Electoral Success, Electoral Bias, and Labour Hegemony: Electoral System Effects in English Metropolitan Boroughs (2002) (6)
- Equalising Votes but Enabling Bias: The Electoral Impact of the 1977 and 1999 Ward Boundary Reviews in London (2004) (6)
- A new algorithm for estimating voter turnout when the number of ballot papers issued is unknown (2006) (5)
- LOCAL ELECTIONS IN BRITAIN: COMPARING MYTH WITH REALITY (1988) (5)
- Turnout at local government elections: Influences on levels of voter registration and electoral participation (2000) (5)
- The Concept of a Central – Local Government Partnership: Issues obscured by ideas (1981) (5)
- Elections and Public Opinion: The End of the Honeymoon? (2001) (5)
- Another (small) step on the road towards a multi-party Britain – turnout and party choice at the 2009 local and European Parliament elections (2009) (5)
- Magnifying Voters' Preferences: Bias in Elections to Birmingham's City Council (2004) (4)
- Problems in Administering Community Policing: Some Lessons from Implementation Analysis (1985) (4)
- Unused Votes in English Local Government Elections: Effects and Explanations (2009) (4)
- The Slow Death of a Governing Party: The Erosion of Conservative Local Electoral Support in England 1979–97 (2002) (4)
- Elections and Public Opinion: Plus Ça Change ¿ (2005) (4)
- Gender Imbalance in Representative Democracy: Women and Local Government in London and Birmingham 1918 - 2003 (2004) (4)
- Mayoral referendums and elections revisited (2014) (4)
- Elections and Public Opinion: Leaders Under Pressure (2004) (4)
- THE IMPACT OF THE COMMUNITY CHARGE ON ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR: THE 1990 LOCAL ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (1991) (4)
- The Parliamentary Boundary Commissions: Rules, Interpretations and Politics (1994) (4)
- Proportionality and disproportionality in english county government, 1973–97 (2000) (3)
- District magnitude and third party representation in local government (2001) (3)
- The impact of local government electoral systems: Some thoughts for the local government commission (1992) (3)
- European Parliament By-Election Results (2020) (3)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1983-1997 (1993) (2)
- Suppose UK voters accept the Alternative Vote in the May referendum… but then don’t use AV to signal multiple party preferences? (2010) (2)
- The electoral impact of the poll tax: Evidence from the 1990 local elections in England and Wales (1991) (2)
- Coalitions in Britain: Administrative Formation in Hung Councils (1995) (2)
- Proportional Representation in Local Government (2002) (2)
- Electoral bias in 2010: Evaluating its extent in a three-party system (2010) (2)
- Who Stands for Elected Office?: A Comparative Analysis of Local and Parliamentary Election Candidates in the UK (2009) (2)
- PERSONALIZED QUESTION-ANSWERING MOBILE SYSTEM (2008) (2)
- NATIONAL TRENDS AND LOCAL DIFFERENCES: THE 2006 LOCAL ELECTIONS (2006) (2)
- Opinion polling and the aftermath of the 1992 general election (1993) (2)
- Local campaign activity and voting (2013) (1)
- Mobilising the ‘People’s Army’ at the Grassroots: Examining Support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in English Local Elections (2019) (1)
- MOBILE SEARCH AND ADVERTISING (2009) (1)
- Elections and Public Opinion: Amidst the Apathy, Another Landslide (2002) (1)
- Voting systems in parallel and the benefits for small parties (2014) (1)
- Assessing the electoral performance of the alliance: Liberals and the SDP in local government elections, 1983 to 1985 (1986) (1)
- Councillor Perceptions of the Boundary Review Process: Recommendations for Future Practice (2012) (1)
- Britain Votes 6 (2018) (1)
- An Analysis of Sound Exposure in a University Music Rehearsal. (2014) (1)
- One vote, one value: electoral redistricting in English local government (2002) (1)
- Elections and Public Opinion: Conservative Doldrums and Continuing Apathy (2003) (1)
- Book Reviews : J. D. Starling: Municipal Coping Strategies 1986, London: Sage. 290 pages (1987) (0)
- Boundary Reviews (2020) (0)
- Electoral Irregularities (2020) (0)
- European Parliament Election results, 1979–1999 (2020) (0)
- THE JUGGERNAUT OF CENTRALISATION (1986) (0)
- Local Government Elections - Miscellaneous Information (2020) (0)
- Musically Generated Form: A Means of Translation (2012) (0)
- Retrospective: The 1993 County Council Elections (1994) (0)
- Parliamentary By-Election results (2020) (0)
- Toward an Enlightened Model of Department‐Level Academic Leadership: Business Principles in Service of Academia (2017) (0)
- Campus Bullies: An Administrative Admonition (2018) (0)
- The impact of the 2011 referendum on local election campaigning (2011) (0)
- British parliamentary election results 1997 (1998) (0)
- R. Waller and B. Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, 7th edition, Routledge, 2002, 929 pp., hb. £95, pb. £35 (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews : Junko Kato: The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality. Tax Politics in Japan 1994, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 327 pages (1996) (0)
- Local Government Election Turnout (2020) (0)
- Parliamentary By-Election summary data (2020) (0)
- Public Opinion Polls -monthly data 1945-1999 (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews: D. Chisholm: Coordination Without Hierarchy 1989, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: California University Press. 273 pages (1990) (0)
- D. Denver, Elections and Voters in Britain, Palgrave, 2003, 212 pp., pb. £15.50 (2003) (0)
- Elections and Polls in 2008 (2009) (0)
- The Almanac of British Politics (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- No Milky way - no Magellanic Clouds (1981) (0)
- General Election results and nation, 1955–1997* (2020) (0)
- Reinventing College: Where Higher Education Went Wrong and What Academic Leaders Must Do to Make It Right (2023) (0)
- L. Bennie, C. Rallings, J. Tonge and P. Webb, British Elections and Parties Review, 12, Frank Cass, 2002, 290 pp., hb. £47.50, pb. £22.50 (2003) (0)
- Elections and Public Opinion: Blair’s Third and Final Electoral Triumph (2006) (0)
- General and local election voting in 2001 (2001) (0)
- Party competition and electoral volatility: The case of local by‐elections, 1983–1987 (1988) (0)
- Electorate and Electoral Adminstration, European Parliament Elections 1979–1999 (2020) (0)
- What's Your Motivation? (2021) (0)
- THE 2008 LOCAL ELECTIONS: A FALSE DAWN FOR THE CONSERVATIVES? (2009) (0)
- Electoral Administration (2020) (0)
- Metropolitan Areas in England (2005) (0)
- Respect and Relationship: A Perspective on Indigenous Mental Health from Turtle Island/North America (2018) (0)
- The Use of the Clarinet in Selected Viennese Operas, 1786-1791, With Three Recitals of Selected Works by Brahms, Muczynski, Benjamin, Widor, Hindemith, and Others (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (1993) (0)
- Sub‐national coalition government formation in Belgium, France and Germany (1999) (0)
- General Election results, 1832–1997* (2020) (0)
- Natural Language Processing MOBILE SEARCH AND ADVERTISING (2009) (0)
- Electorate (2020) (0)
- Elections and Polls in 2007 (2008) (0)
- J. Tonge, L. Bennie, D. Denver and L. Harrison, British Elections and Parties Review, 11, Frank Cass, 2001, 272 pp., hb. £45, pb. £22.50 (2003) (0)
- Miscellaneous Statistics (2020) (0)
- Elections in Major Urban Areas (2020) (0)
- Members and Candidates (2020) (0)
- Shaping Campus Morale: A Proactive Approach (2018) (0)
- Decomposing Electoral Bias: The Three-Party Case (2008) (0)
- Reference Section: Elections and Polls in 2010 (2011) (0)
- Elections and Polls in 2009 (2010) (0)
- Introduction (2001) (0)
- Much Ado About Not Very Much: The Electoral Consequences of On-Demand Voting by Mail in Great Britain (2008) (0)
- British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives (2012) (0)
- An Analysis of Sound Exposure in a University Instrumental Music Rehearsal Venue (2013) (0)
- Mayoral referendums and elections revisited (2013) (0)
- Elections and Polls in 2006 (2007) (0)
- Elections and Polls in 2005 (2006) (0)
- General Election Results, 1832-2005 Table 1.01: General Election 1832 (2017) (0)
- Parliamentary Constituency Boundary Reviews and Electoral Bias (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews : J. M. Pennings: Interlocking Directorates 1980, San Francisco: Jossey Bass. 220pp (1983) (0)
- General Election summary data, 1832–1997 (2020) (0)
- Candidate Campaigning in Low Information Elections: Evidence from Local Election Candidates in the UK (2011) (0)
- Elections and Related Matters. D. Butler and D. Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2001, Palgrave, 2002, 356 pp., £50, pb. £18.99 (2002) (0)
- MAGNIFYING VOTERS’ PREFERENCES (2006) (0)
- UKIP candidates and policy positions in the 2013 local elections (2013) (0)
- Public Opinion Polls at General Elections 1945–1997 (2020) (0)
- Party Politics and Local Government (2005) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
- The Demise of New Labour? The British 'Mid-Term' Elections of 2008 (2008) (0)
- Fixing consituency boundaries (1999) (0)
- Referendums in the United Kingdom 1973-1998 (2020) (0)
- European Parliament Election summary data, 1979–1999 (2020) (0)
- A. Park, J. Curtice, K. Thomson, L. Jarvis and C. Bromley, British Social Attitudes, 18th Report: Public policy, Social ties, Sage, 2001, 366 pp., hb. £37.50 (2003) (0)
- Political Parties (2019) (0)
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEFENDED (1984) (0)
- Public Policy — A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (1980) (0)
- Devolution Elections (2020) (0)
- Elections and Polls in 2004 (2005) (0)
- J. Bartle, R. Mortimore and S. Atkinson, Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 2001, Frank Cass, 2002, 296 pp., £35 (2003) (0)
- Incumbency, votes and electoral outcomes: Examining the effects of candidate ethnic origins on party performance in local elections (2013) (0)
- S. Henig and L. Baston, The Political Map of Britain, Politico's, 2002, 1024 pp., pb. £30 (2003) (0)
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