Read my posts featuring the work of political scientist Rosie Campbell and colleagues.
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 »
Here’s what two research papers from the EPOP 2016 conference say about the electoral impact of candidates being local. … Read the full post »
There were two elements in the disaster that was the 2015 general election result for the Liberal Democrats: just 8% of the vote and also just eight MPs. … Read the full post »
Thoughtful preliminary analysis of the 2015 general election from the Hansard Society. … Read the full post »
A new research article examines the quality of ‘quota women’ compared to their non-quota colleagues at three stages of their political career. … Read the full post »
Edition #40 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at how many seats the Liberal Democrats will win at the next general election. … Read the full post »
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 »
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 »
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 »