1. The British study interviewed 2060 members of the public and 1244 senior politicians — leaders of party groups on local government councils throughout Britain. See William L. Miller, Annis May Timpson and Michael Lessnoff, Political Culture in Contemporary Britain: People and Politicians, Principles and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) for a full description of these surveys
2. A more introductory and thematic account of these surveys is given in William L. Miller (ed.) Alternatives to Freedom: Arguments and Opinions (London: Longman, 1995).
3. See Herbert McClosky and Alida Brill, Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe about Civil Liberties (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1983)
4. Herbert McClosky, ‘Consensus and Ideology in American Politics’, American Political Science Review, vol. 58 no. 2 (1964) pp. 361–82.
5. For a recent account of the 1987 Canadian Charter Study Survey see Paul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell and Philip E. Tetlock, The Clark of Rights: Liberty, Equality and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996).