ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a series of longitudinal studies of election constituencies in three major European democracies that seem to have shown surprising resistance to non political influences on campaign and voter behavior. Basingstoke offered an especially attractive opportunity for a microcosmic study of the influence of occupational status on politics with the overspill program getting underway in 1964. The Evreux studies offer an interesting opportunity to observe the effects of major changes in the national governmental structure on parliamentary electoral politics. The Osnabruck studies shed some light on the relationship between coalition politics at the national level and voting and campaign behavior in the parliamentary constituencies. Like Basingstoke, Evreux's parliamentary electoral politics changed remarkably little in the period under review. The autonomy of electoral politics and behavior that seemed so evident in Basingstoke and Evreux appeared in Osnabruck also.
