Read about the work of the political scientist Professor Phil Cowley who specialises in British elections and the behaviour of MPs.
It’s been a while since I last looked at research evidence on whether local candidates do better in elections. So time to catch up with another experiment which has come to a similar conclusion: voters prefer local candidates. … Read the full post »
New polling from the Mile End Institute, as reported on by Phil Cowley. … Read the full post »
An excellent new paper from Philip Cowley is nominally about how to interview MPs for political science research. But it’s really a very funny guide to… … Read the full post »
In the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts, I speak with Professor Phil Cowley, one of Britain’s leading political scientists. … Read the full post »
Welcome to the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts, in which Stephen Tall and I picked over the European election results and what comes next for the Lib Dems. … Read the full post »
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 is to writers of political books what Simon Cowell is to singers of songs, so hurrah for… … Read the full post »
The handsome, charming and hugely talented Professor Phil Cowley, who I have to be nice to currently as I’m hoping he’ll include a piece from me in a new book, features in the latest episode of The Political Party. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #118 has the story from Phil Cowley of the Liberal Democrat manifesto for the general election that wasn’t in 2016. It promised a whole £12 extra for the NHS. … Read the full post »
Here’s what two research papers from the EPOP 2016 conference say about the electoral impact of candidates being local. … Read the full post »