Celebrities, political donations and the impact on voters
When people dislike a celebrity, and that celebrity donates to a political party, then people ending up liking that party less. … Read the full post »
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When people dislike a celebrity, and that celebrity donates to a political party, then people ending up liking that party less. … Read the full post »
Elections that occur after people have had more sleep result in higher turnout. … Read the full post »
Local constituency party accounting and membership data demonstrate how the Liberal Democrats’ strongest local associations have been affected since the party’s entry into coalition government in 2010. … Read the full post »
Can the volume of internet searches for different topics can be used to track changes in how important voters view the issue to be? … Read the full post »
Garner tested the impact of attaching a Post-it note with a hand-written request to survey materials. The study found that the note roughly doubled response rates. … 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 »
Read about “Members are not the only fruit: volunteer activity in British political parties at the 2010 general election”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2013 by Justin Fisher, Edward Fieldhouse and David Cutts. … Read the full post »
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – the problem of ‘uninteresting’ trial data not being published. … Read the full post »
The physical distance between voter and candidates from the three main parties (Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat) matters in English constituencies, even when controlling for strong predictors of vote choice. … Read the full post »