The Scotland—England Divide: Politics and Locality in Britain
- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Political Studies
- Vol. 41 (1) , 96-107
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1993.tb01640.x
Abstract
Growing territorial cleavages within Britain have attracted considerable interest from social scientists in recent years. New spatial models of voting, accounting for the declining homogeneity of electoral behaviour,1 have drawn attention to localised patterns of political support, as well as the emergence of regional cleavages across Britain as a whole.2 Talk of a North–South split has become the common currency of political commentators to account for regional disparities between Conservative and Labour support.3 Alongside these local and regional divisions in voting patterns, there is a new interest in broader aspects of the political differences between the nations of the UK, notably between England on the one hand, and Scotland and Wales on the other.4Keywords
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