BSA report chapters

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Recent BSA reports have covered the following topics. For information about how to buy these chapters, please click on the link provided at the end of each report.

The 26th report

  • Duty in decline? Trends in attitudes to voting - Sarah Butt and John Curtice

  • Thermostat or weathervane? Public reactions to spending and redistribution under New Labour - John Curtice

  • How do political parties shape public opinion? Britain in a European perspective - Stephen Padgett and Robert Johns

  • Religion in Britain and the United States - David Voas and Rodney Ling

  • Religious faith and contemporary attitudes - Siobhan McAndrew

  • Understanding the dynamics of attitude change - Andy Ross and Amanda Sacker

  • A chorus of disapproval? European attitudes to non-traditional family patterns - Eric Harrison and Rory Fitzgerald

  • Never too old? Attitudes towards longer working lives - Stephen McKay

  • Lone parents and benefits: an obligation to look for work? - Matt Barnes and Wojtek Tomasweski

  • Food for thought: attitudes to innovative food technologies - Elizabeth Clery

  • Smoking, drinking and drugs: reactions to reform - Rossy Bailey, Elizabeth Fuller and Rachel Ormston

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The 25th report

  • Is there an English backlash? Reactions to devolution - John Curtice

  • The NHS: satisfied now? - John Appleby and Miranda Phillips

  • Do people want choice and diversity of provision in public services? - John Curtice and Oliver Heath

  • Has welfare made us lazy? Employment commitment in different welfare states - Ingrid Esser

  • Exploring parents’ views - Geoff Dench

  • Pay more, fly less? Changing attitudes to air travel - Sarah Butt and Andrew Shaw

  • Therapy culture? Attitudes towards emotional support in Britain - Simon Anderson, Julie Brownlie and Lisa Given

  • Britain at play: should we ‘do’ more and view less? - Rossy Bailey and Alison Park

  • Is Britain a respectful society? - Elizabeth Clery and Janet Stockdale

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The 24th report


  • New families? Tradition and change in modern relationships - Simon Duncan and Miranda Phillips

  • Cohabitation and the law: myths, money and the media - Anne Barlow, Carole Burgoyne, Elizabeth Clery and Janet Smithson

  • Who does the housework? The division of labour within the home - Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette

  • Talking the talk: national identity in England and Scotland - Frank Bechhofer and David McCrone

  • Is there still a public service ethos? - Peter John and Mark Johnson

  • Prejudice and the workplace - Chris Creegan and Chloe Robinson

  • Car use and climate change: do we practise what we preach? - Stephen Stradling, Jillian Anable, Tracy Anderson and Alexandra Cronberg

  • Where have all the readers gone? Popular newspapers and Britain’s political health - John Curtice and Ann Mair

  • What makes a good citizen? Citizenship across the democratic world - Paul F Whiteley

  • The role of government: public values and party politics - Robert Johns and Stephen Padgett

  • Trends in sympathy for the poor - Peter Taylor-Gooby and Rose Martin

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The 23rd report


  • Who do we think we are? The decline of traditional social identities - Anthony Heath, Jean Martin and Gabriella Elgenius

  • Quickening death: the euthanasia debate - Elizabeth Clery, Sheila McLean and Miranda Phillips

  • Are we all working too hard? Women, men, and changing attitudes to employment - Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette

  • Who should pay for my care – when I’m 64? - Rachel Ormston, John Curtice and Helen Fawcett

  • Agree to disagree: respect for political opponents - Katrin Voltmer and Mansur Lalljee

  • Proportional representation and the disappearing voter - John Curtice, Stephen Fisher and Laurence Lessard-Phillips

  • Civil liberties and the challenge of terrorism - Mark Johnson and Conor Gearty

  • New Labour, New Unions? - Alex Bryson

  • Disabling attitudes? Public perspectives on disabled people - John Rigg

  • Isolates or socialites? The social ties of internet users - John Curtice and Pippa Norris

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The 22nd report


  • Give and take: attitudes to redistribution - Tom Sefton

  • Work-life balance- still a ‘woman’s issue’? - Alice Bell and Caroline Bryson

  • Home sweet home - Alun Humphrey and Catherine Bromley

  • Higher education: a class act - Ted Wragg and Mark Johnson

  • Public responses to NHS reform - John Appleby and Arturo Alvarez Rosete

  • Transport: are policymakers and the public on the same track? - Peter Jones, Georgina Christodoulou, David Whibley

  • Planning for retirement: realism or denial? - Miranda Phillips and Ruth Hancock

  • Leaders or followers? Parties and public opinion on the European Union - Geoffrey Evans and Sarah Butt

  • Are trade unionists left-wing any more? - John Curtice and Ann Mair

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The 21st report


  • The work-centred welfare state - Peter Taylor-Gooby

  • Has modern politics disenchanted the young? - Alison Park

  • Teenagers on family values - Miranda Phillips

  • Can Britain close the digital divide? - Catherine Bromley

  • e-politics? The impact of the internet on political trust and participation - John Curtice and Pippa Norris

  • Genomic science: emerging public opinion - Patrick Sturgis, Helen Cooper, Chris Fife-Schaw and Richard Shepherd

  • Dimensions of British Identity - James Tilley, Sonia Exley and Anthony Heath

  • Understanding the rising tide of anti-immigrant sentiment - Lauren McLaren and Mark Johnson

  • Does England want devolution too? - John Curtice and Mark Sandford

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The 20th report


  • What we want from the welfare state - Tom Sefton

  • The NHS: keeping up with public expectations? - John Appleby and Arturo Alvarez Rosete

  • Stuck in our cars? Mapping transport preferences - Sonia Exley and Ian Christie

  • Has Britain become immune to inequality - Catherine Bromley

  • Is there a crisis of political participation - John Curtice and Ben Seyd

  • Pass or fail? Perceptions of education - Ted Wragg and Lindsey Jarvis

  • Charting change in British values - Alison Park and Paula Surridge

  • A woman’s place…Employment and family life for men and women - Rosemary Crompton, Michaela Brockmann and Richard D. Wiggins

  • Trends in racial prejudice - Catherine Rothon and Anthony Heath

  • Will we ever vote for the Euro? - Geoffrey Evans

  • The power to persuade? A tale of two Prime Ministers - John Curtice and Stephen Fisher

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The 19th report


  • Off the buses? - Sonia Exley and John Hills

  • Buy now, pay later? - Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay

  • Marching on together? - Recent trends in union membership Alex Bryson and Raphael Gomex

  • Support for state spending: has New Labour got it right? - Peter Taylor-Gooby and Charlotte Hastie

  • Education, education, education - Ted Wragg and Katarina Thomson

  • Illegal drugs: highs and lows - Arthur Gould and Nina Stratford

  • Where have all the voters gone? - Catherine Bromely and John Curtice

  • English to the core? - Anthony Heath, Catherine Rohan, Lindsey Jarvis

  • The ties that bind - Alison Park and Ceridwen Roberts

  • In search of tolerance - Geoffrey Evans

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The 18th report


  • Poverty and social security: What rights? Whose responsibilities? - John Hills

  • Just a piece of paper? Marriage and cohabitation - Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan, Grace James and Alison Park

  • Teenage mums - Lynda Clarke and Katarina Thomson

  • The NHS and Labour’s battle for public opinion - Jo-Ann Mulligan and John Appleby

  • Genetic research: friend or foe? - Nina Stratford, Theresa Marteau, Martin Bobrow

  • How green are our values? - Ian Christie and Lindsey Jarvis

  • Internet use: the digital divide - Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald

  • How robust is British civil society? - Michael Johnston and Roger Jowell

  • Political engagement, trust and constitutional reform - Catherine Bromley, John Curtice, Ben Seyd

  • Is devolution strengthening or weakening the UK? - John Curtice and Ben Seyd

  • The Conservatives and Europe: waving or drowning? - Geoffrey Evans

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The 17th report


  • The generation game - Alison Park

  • Health care rationing: a cut too far? - Caroline Bryson and Bill New

  • The working class and New Labour: a parting of the ways? - Geoffrey Evans

  • Sex and the media: a shifting landscape - Annette Hill and Katarina Thomson

  • The gender gap - Kerstin Hinds and Lindsey Jarvis

  • Losing faith: is Britain alone? - Nan Dirk De Graaf and Ariana Need

  • Images of council housing - Peter Kemp

  • Is the English lion about to roar? National identity after devolution - John Curtice and Anthony Heath

  • Town and country life - Nina Stratford and Ian Christie

  • Begging as a challenge to the welfare state - Michael Adler, Catherine Bromley, Michael Rosie

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