1. 2The 2001 and 2005 British Election Studies were directed by Harold Clarke, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart and Paul Whiteley, at the University of Essex. The directors take the credit for having conducted the study and making the data freely available; they take none of the blame for the interpretation placed on the data here.
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