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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 huurah for: Am enjoying @markpack‘s book on winning elections. Although much of it could be called 101 Ways To Achieve Anything Without Much Money. — Philip Cowley (@philipjcowley) July 5, 2012 You too can get your guide to [...]
Political campaigning is being shaped by the unseen technologies
Taking part in one of the panels at the excellent Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900 conference a few weeks ago, I heard Nottingham’s Phil Cowley once again push his “Cowley’s Law of Campaigning” (not to be confused with Cowley’s Syndrome). Phil’s a charming man and he insisted he would keep on mentioning the law until his mother [...]
Politicians are not mere pawns in the hands of journalists
Understandably the Leveson Inquiry has concentrated on the misdeeds of journalists and the behaviour of newspaper owners. However, the appearance of a series of figures this week at Leveson could – indeed should – have highlighted how often the power lies with politicians, not the media. We had three figures appear who all, in their [...]
Running for office? What voters think of your income
Welcome to the latest in our occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – how voters prefer people who earn less rather than more. The findings come from research presenting the details of two fictional candidates to voters and asking them what they thought of each. Details of one of the fictional candidates [...]
What do the academics say? The voters want local candidates
Welcome to the latest in our occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – the repeated finding that voters like local candidates: Surveys have consistently found ‘localness’ to be one of the main criteria voters say they want in an election candidate. In each of five surveys between 1983 and 2005, voters ranked [...]
The British General Election of 2010: a book worth reading
There are two simple tests I have for books that recount events I was in some way involved in: do they accurately retell events that I have direct first-hand knowledge of and do they tell me something new about events I was one step removed from? If a book pasts both those tests, chances are [...]
Election2010: excellent new elections blog
I’ve certainly criticised academics a few times for not really getting political campaigning – and so spending time looking in the wrong place (such as in my post on internet campaigning) but one exception to that certainly is Phil Cowley of Nottingham University. So it’s not a great surprise that the new Election 2010 blog [...]
