Institute for Social Change

ISC Working papers

The Working Papers series is an outlet for research staff and students at the Institute for Social Change(ISC) and Institiute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG) to publish their research.

The series will also include papers contributed by visitors to the Institutes.

All papers in the series are available to download free of charge in pdf format. Please note that the working papers are the property of ISC and IPEG respectively, and should not be reproduced for publication in any other format.

If you are interested in publishing any of the papers please get in touch with the author or authors who will in most cases already have submitted this paper for publication in a learned journal.

Comments on any individual papers should be sent directly to the authors. Any comments on or queries in relation to the series as a whole should be directed to Gindo Tampubolon(gindo.tampubolon@manchester.ac.uk).

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Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Johnston, R., Pattie, Ch., Cutts, D., Fieldhouse, E., and Fisher, J. (2011) ‘Local Campaign Spending at the 2010: General Election and Its Impact: Exploring What Wider Regulation has Revealed’ The Political Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 2, April–June 2011

Cutts, D., Goodwin, M. and Ford, R. "Still Racist After All? Examining the Attitudinal Drivers of Extreme Right Support in Britain in the 2009 European Elections." European Journal of Political Research(2010) .

Cutts, D., Fieldhouse, E. and Russell, A. "The Campaign that changed everything and still did not matter? The Liberal Democrat Campaign and Performance." Parliamentary Affairs(2010) .

Fieldhouse, E. and Cutts, D. "Does diversity damage social capital? A comparative study of neighbourhood diversity and social capital in the US and Britain." Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 43, no. 2(2010) : 289-318.

Ford, R. "Acceptable and unacceptable immigrants: the ethnic hierarchy in British immigration preferences." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies(2010) .

Ford, R; Cutts, D and Goodwin, M. "Strategic Eurosceptics and Polite Xenophobes: Support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2009 European Parliament Elections." European Journal of Political Research(2010) .

Ford, R and Goodwin, M (2010) ‘Angry White Men: Individual and contextual predictors of support for the British National Party’, Political Studies, Vol 58(1):1-25"

Cutts, D; Ford, R and Goodwin, M (2010) ‘Anti-immigrant, politically disaffected or till racist after all? Examining the attitudinal drivers of BNP support in the 2009 European elections’

Ivarsflaten, E; Blinder, S and Ford, R (2010) ‘The anti-racism norm in Western European immigration politics: Why we need to consider it and how to measure it.’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Vol 20 (4): 421-45

Flynn, D; Ford, R and Somerville, W (2010) ‘Immigration and the 2010 election’, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 18(3/4)

Fisher, S; Ford, R, Pickup, M; Jennings, W and Wlezien, C (2010) ‘From Polls to Votes to Seats: Forecasting the 2010 British Election’

Heath, A. and Roger J. (eds) (2010) Diversity and Change in Modern India.  Proceedings of the British Academy 159.  Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy.

Heath, A. and Li Y. (2010)  The feasibility of constructing a race equality index.  DWP, Research Report 695. http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rres-index.asp

Heath, A. (2010) Main determinants of educational and labour market outcomes.  In OECD  Equal Opportunities? The labour market integration of the children of immigrants.  Paris: OECD.

Heath, A.,  Fisher, S., Sanders, D., and Sobolewska, M.  (2011) Ethnic heterogeneity in the social bases of voting at the 2010 British General Election.  Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 21(2): 255-277.

Phalet, K. and Heath, A (2011)  Ethnic community, urban economy, and second-generation attainment:  Turkish disadvantage in Belgium.  Pp 135-165 in Richard Alba and Mary C Waters (eds) The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. New York: New York University Press,

Heath, A. and Sullivan, A. (2011) The democratisation of upper secondary education?  Oxford Review of Education 37 (2):123-138.

Sullivan, A., Heath, A. and Rothon, C. (2011) Equalisation or inflation? Social class and gender differentials in England and Wales.  Oxford Review of Education 37 (2): 215-240.

Phalet, K. and Heath,A. (2010) From ethnic boundaries to ethnic penalties: urban economies and the Turkish second generation.  American Behavioral Scientist 53(12):  1824-1850

Heath, A, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Li, Y. (2010) How fair is the route to the top? Perceptions of social mobility.  Pp29-72 in Alison Park, John Curtice, Elizabeth Clery and Caroline Bryson (eds) British Social Attitudes, the 27th Report: Exploring Labour’s Legacy.  London: Sage.

Raya, M. and Heath, A. (2010)  Who intermarries in Britain? Explaining ethnic diversity in intermarriage patterns.  British Journal of Sociology, 61(2): 275-305

Li, Y. and Heath, A. (2010) Struggling onto the ladder, climbing the rungs: employment and class position of minority ethnic groups in Britain.  Pp 83-98 in J .Stillwell et al (eds) Spatial and Social Disparities.  London: Springer.

Heath, A.,  Rothon, C. and  Ali, S. (2010) Race and public opinion.  Pp 186-208 in A Bloch and J Solomos (eds) Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Li, Y. (ed) The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications on Social Capital, forthcoming in 2012/3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Heath, A. and Li, Y. (2013) Key Concepts in the Social Sciences: Social Mobility, forthcoming in 2012/3, Bristol: Polity.

Li, Y. ‘The socio-economic integration of 2nd generation minority ethnic groups in Britain and the USA’, forthcoming in 2012, Comparative Sociological Research Methods, Vol. 30.

Li, Y. ‘Economic recessions and minority ethnic unemployment in Britain and the USA’, forthcoming in 2012/3, in Heath, A., Putnam, R. and Fieldhouse, E. (eds), Hard Times:  The Social Effects of the Recession in Britain and America.

Li, Y. (2011) ‘The Intergenerational Social Mobility of Whites and Blacks in Britain and the USA (1972-2005)’, forthcoming in 2012, in Putnam, R., Western, B., Devine, F. and Fieldhouse. E. (eds) Social Inequality in the USA and Britain.

Li, Y. (2011) ‘Ethnic wage gaps in Britain and the US’, forthcoming in 2011, in Connelly, R., Lambert, P., Blackburn, R. and Gayle, V. (eds) Social Stratification: Trends and Processes. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Li, Y. and Devine, F. (2011) ‘Is Social Mobility Really Declining? Intergenerational Class Mobility in Britain in the 1990s and the 2000s’, forthcoming in the next issue of Sociological Research Online

Morales, L. and Ramiro, L.,. "Gaining Political Capital through Social Capital. Inclusion in Policy Making and Network Embeddedness of Immigrants’ Associations in Spain." Mobilization 16, no. 2(2011) .

Peach, C. ‘Ghetto-Lite' or Missing the G-Spot'. Journal ofEthnic And Migration Studies, 36(9):1519-1526.

Gibson, R., and McAllister, I., ‘Do Online Election Campaigns Win Votes? The 2007 Australian “YouTube” Election Political Communication’ 28(2)

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Ackland,R., Gibson, R.,  Lusoli, W.  and Ward, S., ‘Engaging with the public? Assessing the online presence and communication practices of the Nanotechnology Industry’ Social Science Computer Review 2010. 28: 4 28: 443-465

Campbell, M., Shryane, N., Byrne, R. and Morrison, A. P. "A mental health promotion approach to reducing discrimination about psychosis in teenagers." Psychosis 3, no. 1(2011) : 41-51.

Reniers, R., Corcoran, R., Shryane, N. & Völlm, B. "Development and validation of the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE)." Journal of Personality Assessment 93, no. 1(2011) : 84-95.

French, P., Hutton, P., Barratt, S., Parker, S., Byrne, R., Shryane, N. and Morrison, A. P. "Provision of online normalising information to reduce stigma associated with psychosis: Can an audio podcast challenge negative appraisals of psychotic experiences?." 3, no. 1(2011) : 1-10.