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As successive volumes of the Nuffield studies testify, general election campaigns have been studied closely in Britain for over half a century. This is easily understandable as general elections are at the core of British democracy and are the context in which voters, parties and politicians orient themselves. General elections punctuate British politics and terms like the ‘electoral cycle’, ‘mid-term blues’ or the ‘long campaign’ are only explicable in terms of regular general election campaigns structuring British political life.
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Griffiths, D. (2001). Referendum Campaigning. In: Bartle, J., Griffiths, D. (eds) Political Communications Transformed. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977286_8
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