Our positive vision versus Conservative desperation (LDN #180)
Welcome to the first Lib Dem Newswire of 2024, chock full of news and analysis, including a podcast about Charles Kennedy. … Read the full post »
Dennis Kavanagh
Read about the work of the political scientist Dennis Kavanagh.
What is the point of books about British general elections?
I’ve recently read two books about the 2017 general election, Britain Votes 2017 and None Past the Post. Not only is the title of the latter far better than any I’ve ever come up with… … Read the full post »
Phil Cowley (political science’s answer to Simon Cowell) speaks…
Phil Cowley is to writers of political books what Simon Cowell is to singers of songs, so hurrah for… … Read the full post »
The British General Election of 2015 by Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh
Packed fully of juicy details and acerbic footnotes, Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh’s The British General Election of 2015 is a must read. … Read the full post »
Do leaflets work? Part 2
Consider the following statistic a sequel to “What do the academics say? Delivering lots of leaflets works”… … Read the full post »
A quarter of Labour voters thought the government had a budget surplus in 2013
One of the gems from Phil Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh’s The British General Election of 2015. … Read the full post »
Tories are hoping economic recovery will win it for them in 2015; why didn’t it in 1997?
In some ways 2015 is nothing like 1997. Exhibits A and B: Tony Blair and Ed Miliband. But in one important sense they are very similar. … Read the full post »
Will it be ‘the economy, stupid’ in 2015?
Quite how traumatic the events of Black Wednesday were to the Conservative Party’s reputation are easy to overlook nearly twenty-five years on, but until then the century had seen four full-scale financial crises rocking the country’s economy – and every one had taken place under a Labour government. … Read the full post »
The four best books on the British general election of 2010
Over the last few months, I’ve read (and mostly reviewed on this site) all the books I’ve found published so far about the 2010 general election… … Read the full post »
The 2010 election in historical perspective
It has become a Liberal Democrat History Group tradition at the first Liberal Democrat conference after each general election to hold a fringe meeting looking back on the results. … Read the full post »