Britain at the Polls 2005

Britain at the Polls 2005 continues the tradition of previous editions by providing incisive commentary on the 2005 general elections in the United Kingdom. John Bartle joins Anthony King and a group of eminent political experts to provide a measured analysis of the key issues and events that affected the election results.

Contributors examine the behavior and performance of each of the main political parties, look at the impact of regional political parties in the UK, assess the role of the media, and analyze how events on the international stage, such as Iraq, affected the election results. The result is an authoritative and readable guide to the intricacies and outcomes of the 2005 election.

John R. Bartle is the David Scott Diamond professor of public affairs at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His research on public budgeting and finance has been published in Municipal Finance Journal, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Administration Quarterly, State and Local Government Review and many other professional publications. His book, Sustainable Development for Public Administration (with Deniz Leuenberger) was published in 2009. He is co-editing for ICMA, Management Policies in Local Government Finance, (6th edition) that will be out later this year. He is very active in professional organizations and has served on the executive council for the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the national council for the American Society for Public Administration. He received his Ph.D. in public policy and management from The Ohio State University in 1990.

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.