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• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 - Election Digest

  Election Digest

  17.05.01
• Consumers Survey

  Retail Therapy? Not At The Touch Of A Button

  Internet shopping does not provide the feelgood benefit - or impulse sales - of the in-store experience, according to new study.

  17.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 - Election Digest

  Election Digest

  16.05.01
• Employment Survey

  Research Shows That Small Companies Need To Invest More In Their People

  Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) claim that staff are their most important asset but this is not reflected in their actions, according to a new research report to be launched on May 16, 2001 by businesshr, a specialist human resources advisory service for SMEs.

  16.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Issues Don't Count (As Much As They Should)

  Politicians and pundits alike decry that 'this election should be about the issues'. Yet personalities intrude. In the four-sided tetrahedron that drives my model of voting behaviour, 'values' count for most, as roughly 80% of the public have their mind made up before any election is called, and most of them don't change the habits of a lifetime, in the aggregate.

  16.05.01

• Pulse Check

  Pulse Check delivers key insights from Ipsos' Political Monitor, Political Pulse, and Public Services data, along with reactive polling, to help you navigate the evolving political landscape.

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• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 : Comparing The Parties

  The answers to three questions included on the MORI survey being published in The Times tomorrow reveal a good deal about the public attitudes to the state of the parties, and go some way to explaining the cavernous gap that still exists between the parties (and which, indeed, may even have widened slightly in the last week).

  16.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 - Election Digest

  Election Digest

  15.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 : North Of The Border

  With three polls now in from Scotland, we can take a brief look at the electoral scene north of the border. (Not that you would know there have been any polls in Scotland from reading the London-based newspapers.) As the first post-devolution election, it will be fascinating to see how, if at all, the existence of the Scottish Parliament affects voting patterns, turnout, and the concerns which Scottish voters raise with their candidates.

  15.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Voodoo Polls

  Daily it seems we are confronted, confounded and sometimes infuriated by these phone(y) polls, fax polls, phooey polls and my collective name for them, 'Voodoo Polls'.

  15.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Stirring Up Apathy

  This is the most boring election in this century/decade/since the war/lately/whatever. How many elections is it that I've been hearing that? Nine is it? Every election news editors send some tyro journo out to stir up apathy, and prove once again that this is the most boring election since the year dot.

  14.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 : The Gender Gap

  In Saturday's Guardian Yvonne Roberts report discussed the "gender gap" in voting, arguing that women are not served well by the political system, and quoting research by Harriet Harman and Deborah Mattinson.

  14.05.01