James Hampshire (University of Sussex) Political scientists studying voting behaviour have long debated the relative importance for re-election of candidates’ records [...]
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Votes by Women
Finn Mackay (University of the West of England) We are currently in the midst of a Feminist’s most favourite time in [...]
Read moreLearning from Activists
Lisa Mckenzie (London School of Economics) As May 7th gets closer, an election where the stakes are high. I am attending [...]
Read moreCan we break free of male, pale and stale politics?
Kirstein Rummery (University of Stirling) On the 18th September 2014, 88% of Scottish voters turned out to vote in the referendum [...]
Read morePost-Conflict Elections in Northern Ireland
John D Brewer (Queen’s University Belfast) As a devolved region, Northern Ireland has elections to its regional government and to Westminster. [...]
Read moreScotland: From the Referendum to Election 2015
Alexander Smith (University of Warwick) In June 2012, as campaigning got underway for the referendum on Scottish independence that would take [...]
Read moreCelebrating Political Uncertainty
William Davies (Goldsmiths, University of London) It is something of a truism to say that representative democracy is in a bad [...]
Read moreAusterity as Ideology
Neil Serougi (Independent Researcher) The 2015 general election is being touted as the ‘moment’ when ideology will remerge as the way [...]
Read moreAn Intergenerational Election
Tom Emery (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute) The General Election campaign is now well under way and one underlying theme is the [...]
Read moreA Radical Manifesto for Education
Diane Reay (University of Cambridge) The most significant inequalities in education are being taken as read by the major political parties. [...]
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