What do the academics say? Delivering lots of leaflets works
Voters who recalled receiving six of more leaflets from the Lib Dems outside of election time were much more likely to vote for the party. … Read the full post »
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Voters who recalled receiving six of more leaflets from the Lib Dems outside of election time were much more likely to vote for the party. … Read the full post »
Although election posters rank among the most widely used campaign tactics, little scholarly attention has been paid to the question of whether they actually generate votes. … Read the full post »
Justin Fisher’s findings from survey of local campaign activity at the 2015 general election, presented at the 2015 EPOP conference, show the impact of local campaigning on election results. … Read the full post »
Data from field experiments in Southampton by Florian Foos shows what the impact of canvassing on voters is. … Read the full post »
Shouldn’t there be more to political science than running regression analysis on other people’s datasets? … Read the full post »
Nearly half of tactical voters get it wrong. … Read the full post »
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 »
Pablo Barberá finds that many people are getting diverse voices in their Twitter newsfeeds – not just an “echo chamber” of their own ideologies. … 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 »
No voter bias against bald or balding candidates is apparent, a finding that suggests that the causal mechanism underlying underrepresentation of bald and balding men is not voter bias. … Read the full post »