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Understanding the grey vote — Conservative, conservative or cohort conflict?
Author(s)	John A Vincent, Guy Patterson, Karen Wale
Journal title	Generations Review, vol 11, no 1, March 2001
Pages	pp 9-11
Keywords	Practical politics ; Elections ; Attitude ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social surveys.
Annotation	Older people are stereotyped as stick in the mud, unchanging, and inflexible by newspapers, polling agencies, politicians and political commentators. This image leads politicians and campaigners to minimise the value of older people as political players. Data collected by the Older People and Politics project (OPPOL) and other sources is used to explore older people's party preferences and voting habits. Older people are not a single interest group, rather they are divided by many factors. It is suggested that the successes and failures of the "Pensioners' Movement" have more to do with the particular historical experience of cohorts than anything to do with demographic ageing of the electorate. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010608003 A
Classmark	VL: VLE: DP: TOB: 3F
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