Ivor Crewe

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Professor Sir Ivor Martin Crewe (born 15 December 1945) is a British political scientist. From 1995-1st September 2007 he was the the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and is a former Chair of the 1994 Group. He was awarded his knighthood in the New Year's honours list in 2006.^[1]

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.

In June 2007 it was announced that Crewe will succeed Lord Butler of Brockwell as Master of University College, Oxford.

He is generally credited with being the person to first write about pocket book voting, particularly in the 1987 general election.

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[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).

[edit] External links

• Biography from EPSRC.
• Ivor Crewe: all to play for, The Guardian, February 3, 2004.