Ivor Crewe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Ivor Martin Crewe (born 15 December 1945) is a British political scientist and since 1995 has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and is to retire from his position at the end of this academic year, in September 2007.

Crewe was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then went to Exeter College, Oxford where he gained a first-class BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1966. From 1977 to 1982 he was editor of the British Journal of Political Science and from 1984 to 1992 he was a co-editor.

[edit] Bibliography

Ivor Crewe, 'The Electorate: Partisan Dealignment Ten Years On (1984)', West European Politics, 6(4), pp. 183–215.
Ivor Crewe, 'Has the Electorate Become Thatcherite?', in Robert Skidelsky (ed.), Thatcherism (Chatto & Windus, 1988), pp. 25–49.
Ivor Crewe, 'Values: The Crusade that Failed' in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Thatcher Effect (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 239-50.
Ivor Crewe, 'Margaret Thatcher: As the British Saw Her', The Public Perspective, Vol. 2(2), January/February 1991, pp. 15–17.
Ivor Crewe, 'The Thatcher legacy', in Anthony King (ed.), Britain At The Polls, 1992 (Chatham House, 1992), pp. 1–28.
Ivor Crewe, 'Electoral Behaviour' in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Major Effect (Macmillan, 1994), pp. 99–121.
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the British Social Democratic Party (Oxford University Press, 1995).