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Where Have All The Voters Gone?
The decline of turnout in British elections in the last few years has created something approaching a panic in the political establishment and has left the Electoral Commission and other interested bodies with an acute problem in political marketing. What has resulted is both the commissioning of research to explore the reasons for non-voting and a rash of suggested solutions. This paper discusses newly-published evidence about the way the public views voting and how this is related to other attitudinal and behavioural characteristics commonly treated collectively as components of "activism" or "good citizenship". It also considers the implications of these and other findings for some of the suggested solutions to the turnout problem.
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Transport Journalists Say Integrate Track With Train
The Government should shy away from policies that would expand Britain's motorways, and concentrate on rail and air links — according to new research by MORI among the country's top transport journalists.
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Frontiers of Performance in the NHS
In this report we show that there are some very clear key drivers of patient perceptions that individual managers and clinicians can affect. There are others, however, that neither they nor the Department of Health can influence very much at all.
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New Labour And Delivery
Received political wisdom is that modern governments, especially the present British government, are and will be judged by the public on whether they have "delivered". So "Has New Labour delivered?" will, it is suggested, be the key question on which the outcome of the next general election may turn (assuming, of course, that the opposition has regained a sufficient degree of political credibility for anybody to take them seriously as an alternative). Sir Robert Worcester analyses.
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Ethical Companies
Three-quarters of the British population (74%) say more information on a company's social and ethical behaviour would influence their purchasing decisions, according to MORI's latest research.
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What Do The Public Make Of Local Elections?
MORI's research for the Electoral Commission is published this week
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The government's got a problem; not the Government, the government
MORI Chairman Bob Worcester frets about the conflict between spin and veracity, with a word for the current review into Government information.
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State of the Football Nation
The F.A. has published MORI's 'State of the Nation' survey of English football. The survey is the largest of its kind ever undertaken in this country, exploring the key issues facing the sport in 2002 and how they might be addressed.
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Europe's View On 9/11
More than half of Europeans believe U.S. foreign policy is in part to blame for the September 11 attacks, but three in five believe U.S. conduct since the attacks aims to protect America from further terrorist attacks, whilst a quarter believe it is to enforce its will around the globe.