7 A multinomial logistic regression equation with those nine variables as the independents and party identification as the dependent had a Nagelkerke R 2 of 0.15, with all sets of independent variables making a highly significant contribution (a probability of 0.001 or less) to the accounting for party choice.
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Coming together in a rightward direction: post-1980s changing attitudes to the British welfare state.
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Gordon Brown’s relatively short period of power was marked by stasis on one of the indicators and decline on the other two, and stasis was the main characteristic of the first years of the coalition government led by David Cameron. From the mid-1990 s on there was a strong trend in British attitudes away from a pro-welfare stance and towards a neo-liberal, ‘workfare not welfare’, position, therefore.