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The rules under which the 1984 Euro-elections were conducted in Britain were almost the same as in 1979. The electoral system was unchanged and so, broadly, were the legal and administrative arrangements. But at the national level there was a redrawing of constituency boundaries and, at European level, there were new provisions for subsidising parties and public information campaigns.
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For a discussion of this redistribution see R. Waller, ‘The 1983 Boundary Commission: Policies and Effects’, Electoral Studies, Dec. 1983, pp. 195–206.
For information about European electoral systems see G. Hand and others in European Electoral Systems Handbook (London, 1979).
For discussion of the moves towards a common system in 1979–82 see M. Steed, ‘The European Parliament’ in V. Bogdanor and D. Butler, Democracy and Elections (Cambridge, 1983 ), pp. 228–46.
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Butler, D., Jowett, P. (1985). The Rules. In: Party Strategies in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17816-2_5
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