All Outputs (4)

Local leaflets: Constituency issue messaging at the 2024 General Election (2024)
Journal Article
Duggan, A., Milazzo, C., & Trumm, S. (in press). Local leaflets: Constituency issue messaging at the 2024 General Election. Political Quarterly,

The 2024 General Election brought about a significant change in the parliamentary balance of power. There has already been much attention devoted to the issues that dominated the national campaign. Using original leaflet data from the OpenElections p... Read More about Local leaflets: Constituency issue messaging at the 2024 General Election.

Going negative when spoiled for choice? Destabilizing and boomerang effects of negative political messaging in multiparty systems with multimember districts (2024)
Journal Article
Duggan, A., Crepaz, M., & Kneafsey, L. (2024). Going negative when spoiled for choice? Destabilizing and boomerang effects of negative political messaging in multiparty systems with multimember districts. Political Research Exchange, 6(1), Article 2387160. https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736x.2024.2387160

Classical electoral behaviour theories have associated possible benefits of negative campaigning with two-party plurality systems due to their zero-sum nature. Nevertheless, negative campaigning is a widely used electoral strategy outside of these co... Read More about Going negative when spoiled for choice? Destabilizing and boomerang effects of negative political messaging in multiparty systems with multimember districts.

Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election (2023)
Journal Article
Trumm, S., Milazzo, C., & Duggan, A. (2023). Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election. Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957231186384

The 2019 General Election brought about a significant change in the parliamentary balance of power. There has already been much attention devoted to how parties and their leaders campaigned in the run up to the polling day. Using original leaflet dat... Read More about Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election.

Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections (2023)
Journal Article
Duggan, A., & Milazzo, C. (2023). Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections. Electoral Studies, 83, Article 102600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102600

What drives British parliamentary candidates to attack their opponents? Using an original dataset of approximately 7500 general election leaflets from four elections between 2010 and 2019, we offer the first study into the conditions under which Brit... Read More about Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections.