Professor Charles Pattie
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E9 |
| Telephone (internal): |
27947 |
| Telephone (UK): |
0114 222 7947 |
| Telephone (International): |
+44 114 222 7947 |
| Email: | C.Pattie@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Charles Pattie is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow (BSc Geography, First Class Hons), and Sheffield (PhD). After completing his PhD studentship, he was employed as a researcher at the University of Sheffield for three years before being appointed in 1989 to a lectureship in Geography at the University of Nottingham. In 1994 he returned to Sheffield as a senior lecturer in Geography, was promoted to a readership in 1999, and to a personal chair in 2000.
Research interestsElectoral geography; electoral redistricting; parties and party campaigning; citizenship and participation; the politics of devolution in the UK.
Current researchCharles´s main research area is in electoral geography. Ongoing work is being conducted with colleagues at the University of Bristol into the impact of a variety of contextual effects on voting choices. That research indicates that voters are influenced not only by their personal levels of affluence or by their perceptions of the state of the national economy, but also by their (quite distinct) evaluations of the state of their local economy. Voters who feet their local area has become worse off are less likely to vote for the government than are voters who feet the area has become more prosperous. In addition, research on local constituency campaigning has played a large part in overturning the conventional wisdom, that local campaigns no longer matter in the television age. Local campaigns still matter, and the more effort a candidate puts in, the better he or she does in the election. Most recently, he has become interested in the impact of conversations between voters as a form of political context. In addition, he was involved in two recently completed major research projects on the operation of Britain´s electoral Boundary Commissions, and on the politics of the 1997 devolution referendum in Scotland: both have resulted in a number of papers and a book. With colleagues in the Politics Department at the University of Sheffield, he has recently conducted a project on citizenship, participation, and social capital.
Key publications - Pattie, C.J., Seyd, P. and Whiteley, P. (2004). Citizenship in Britain: values, participation and democracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN-10: 0521827329
- Pattie, C.J., Seyd, P. and Whiteley, P. (2003). Citizenship and civic engagement: attitudes and behaviour in Britain. Political Studies, 51(3), 443-468.
doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00435 - Pattie, C.J. and Johnston, R.J. (2003). Local battles in a national landslide: constituency campaigning at the 2001 British General Election. Political Geography, 22(4), 381-414.
doi:10.1016/S0962-6298(02)00097-5 - Pattie, C.J. and Johnston, R.J. (2001). A low turnout landslide: abstention in the British General Election of 1997. Political Studies, 49(2), 286-305.
doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00314
Other informationCharles is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties and Space and Polity. In Sheffield, he teaches undergraduate modules in social and political geography, quantitative methods, and electoral geography. He is also involved in research training and supervision of postgraduate students.
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