List of Tables

Department rankings in global top fifty, 1993–2002 51

Varieties of anti‐foundationalism 120

Percentage of female staff in politics departments in Britain 141

UK general election results since 1945 290

Patterns of alternation in government, 1950–2000 293

The study of delegation: three dominant traditions 306

Delegated governance, 2007 316

Mainstream politics research on the central state and its interpretivist critics 344

Electoral polarization in Northern Ireland, 1997–2005 392

Partisan identification, 1964 463

Household class and voting, 1964 464

Modelling voting at the 2005 general election: multinomial logit 471

Modelling party identification at the 2005 general election: multinomial logit 473

National identity and the regional vote at the 2007 Scottish parliament election 479

Symmetrical odds ratios: men and women 613

Voting turnout in general elections by age and gender 675

Allocation of bilateral aid, 2002–3 and 2006–7 705

Admissions of work permit holders and their dependants, excluding EEA nationals, by category and nationality, 2000–4 738

Grants of Settlement for Family Formation and Reunion, excluding EEA nationals, 2000–4 739

Asylum applications in select Western countries, 1985–98 740

Acts of political participation in Britain 779

Variations in political participation by social backgrounds 781

Variations in individual, contact, and collective actions by social backgrounds 782

Types of organizational membership 784

Participatory activities in the ‘most important’ organization 785

Changes in participation, 1984–2000 785

The public discourse of globalization in Britain 858

British policy‐makers' understandings of, and attitudes towards, globalization 860

Equity and bond portfolio allocation, 2003 872

Marketization strategies in response to public service failures, and newly emerging problems 881