What do the academics say? Why you need to keep on hammering away with the tactical voting message
Nearly half of tactical voters get it wrong. … Read the full post »
Philip Cowley
Read about the work of the political scientist Professor Phil Cowley who specialises in British elections and the behaviour of MPs.
What do the academics say? How to improve your polling day operation
In studies where both mother and father support the same party, a child is three times as likely to support it too. Where only one parent selects a party… … Read the full post »
Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box: 50 things you need to know about British elections, edited by Philip Cowley and Robert Ford
It all makes for both an entertaining and enlightening read, not only in those chapters that try hard to be funny (I’m looking at you, Joe Twyman) but in them all. … Read the full post »
The mistake the Political and Constitutional Reform inquiry made
I’ll be frank – it’s boring, it’s technical, it doesn’t attract attention and not much evidence has been gathered. But unlike online voting… … Read the full post »
What do voters think of job-sharing Members of Parliament?
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – what voters think of job-sharing MPs. … Read the full post »
What do the academics say? The voters still want local candidates
New research by Phil Cowley and Rosie Campbell looks at how voters react to various candidates by giving different groups of people descriptions of two imaginary candidates and asking them which they prefer. … Read the full post »
Political campaigning is being shaped by the unseen technologies
For the 2010 election, the Financial Times’s James Crabtree coined the excellent phrase “the unseen technology”. … Read the full post »
Politicians are not mere pawns in the hands of journalists
This isn’t just a story about how the media behaves, once again it is also a story about how at times those in politics have far too much power over what appears in the media. … Read the full post »
Running for office? What voters think of your income
The findings come from research presenting the details of two fictional candidates to voters and asking them what they thought of each. … Read the full post »
What do the academics say? The voters want local candidates
Surveys have consistently found ‘localness’ to be one of the main criteria voters say they want in an election candidate. … Read the full post »