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North-East-Referendum-Campaign-and-Media-Coverage-2003-2005

The-North-East-referendum-of-November-2004-asked-voters-whether-an-elected-assembly-should-be-created-for-the-region-The-referendum-aimed-to-formalise-New-Labours-regional-programme-in-England-and-to-mirror-the-creation-of-elected-assemblies-in-Scotland-Wales-Northern-Ireland-and-London-Initially-referendums-had-been-planned-in-three-northern-English-regions-including-the-North-West-Yorkshire-and-the-Humber-and-the-North-East-However-two-referendums-were-cancelled-by-the-government-once-it-became-apparent-that-defeat-was-almost-inevitable-Only-in-the-North-East-was-a-referendum-held-In-the-event-voters-in-the-North-East-rejected-an-elected-assembly-by-almost-four-votes-to-one-effectively-ending-plans-for-elected-regional-government-in-EnglandThis-project-investigated-the-activities-of-the-official-Yes-supporting-an-elected-assembly-and-No-opposing-an-elected-assembly-campaigns-in-the-North-East-It-set-the-referendum-in-the-wider-context-of-debates-on-English-regionalism-and-spatial-inequalities-of-power-in-the-UK-state-The-interaction-between-the-campaigns-and-the-regional-and-national-media-was-also-researched-It-was-felt-that-the-media-played-a-key-role-in-translating-campaign-arguments-into-issues-of-public-interestThere-were-three-distinct-research-elements-in-the-projectThe-first-was-a-programme-of-qualitative-interviews-with-key-actors-in-the-campaigns-and-regional-and-national-media-Second-an-extensive-media-monitoring-exercise-was-carried-out-reviewing-newspaper-coverage-of-the-referendum-over-two-years-leading-up-to-November-2004-It-used-LexisNexis-archives-and-the-web-archives-of-individual-newspapers-source-wwwlexisnexiscom-no-copyright-permissions-necessary-These-data-were-aggregated-into-summary-information-on-media-coverage-Third-quantitative-analysis-of-elite-social-networks-within-the-North-East-region-was-conducted-using-UCINET-V-software-This-looked-at-the-board-membership-of-regional-and-local-institutions-of-governance-A-comparison-of-networks-in-the-North-East-North-West-and-the-Yorkshire-and-the-Humber-regions-was-also-conducted

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