Britain at the Polls 2005

John Bartle is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex and a member of the advisory board for the current British Election Studies. He is co-editor of three books: (with Ivor Crewe and Brian Gosschalk) Political Communications: Why Labour Won the 1997 General Election (1998), (with Dylan Griffiths) Political Communications Transformed: From Morrison to Mandelson (2001), and (with Simon Atkinson and Roger Mortimore) Political Communications: The British General Election Campaign of 2001 (2002). Coeditor Anthony King is co-author with David Butler of two Nuffield College election studies (for 1964 and 1966), author of Britain Says Yes: The 1975 Referendum on the Common Market and Running Scared: Why America's Politicians Campaign Too Much and Govern Too Little, co-author with Ivor Crewe on The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party and editor of The New American Political System, New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls 1997 and Britain at the Polls 2001. He was a member on the Committee on Standards in Public Life (initially the Nolan Committee, now the Neill Committee) from 1994-98 and member on the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords (the Wakeham Commission) from 1999-2000.