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Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election (2023)
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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)
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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.

'The personal touch': Campaign personalisation in Britain (2021)
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Parliamentary candidates face choices about the extent to which they personalise their election campaigns. They must strike a balance between promoting their party's message and their own personal appeal, and they must decide how much effort to inves... Read More about 'The personal touch': Campaign personalisation in Britain.

Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election (2021)
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While most voters in democratic countries still cast their ballot on election day, the proportion of the electorate which opts for postal voting has been steadily, and often dramatically, increasing. This transformation in electoral politics, however... Read More about Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election.

Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications (2020)
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Parties’ electoral communications play a central role in British campaigns. Yet, we know little about the nature of the material contained in these communications and how parties’ campaign messages differ across constituencies or elections. In this a... Read More about Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications.

The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs (2020)
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The outcome of the 2016 referendum on European Union membership took many by surprise and has continued to define the political discourse in Britain. Despite there being a growing body of research focused on explaining how voters cast their ballot, w... Read More about The 2016 EU Referendum: Explaining Support for Brexit Among Would-Be British MPs.

Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom (2019)
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The 2019 European Parliament (EP) election took place against the backdrop of the vote for Brexit and the failure of parliament to agree on a withdrawal agreement. Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party topped the poll and the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats,... Read More about Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom.

Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society; all rights reserved. Recent decades have seen an increasing trend towards the personalisation of election campaigns, even in systems where candidates ha... Read More about Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections.

The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns (2017)
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The personal characteristics of political elites play an important role in British elections. While the personalisation of the media’s election coverage has been the subject of much debate, we know less about the conditions under which voters receive... Read More about The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns.

Social diversity affects the number of parties even under first-past-the-post rule (2017)
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Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit (2017)
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The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the EU –for a Brexit’- brought an end to the country’s membership of the European Union (EU) and set it on a fundamentally different course.... Read More about Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit.

Defeat of the People’s Army?: the 2015 British general election and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) (2017)
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The 2015 general election in Britain saw a major attempt by a relatively new party - the UK Independence Party (UKIP) - to secure elected representation. While UKIP received nearly four million votes, the party left the 2015 general election with jus... Read More about Defeat of the People’s Army?: the 2015 British general election and the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

UKIP: inside the campaign to redraw the map of British politics (2015)
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The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics (2014)
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This paper explains changes in partisanship among Catholics in the last quarter of the 20th Century using a theory of partisan change centered on the contexts in which Catholics lived. Catholics were part of the post-New Deal Democratic coalition, bu... Read More about The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics.

Getting it right when it counts: constituency marginality and voters’ perceptions of British parties’ policy positions (2014)
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This article argues that despite the importance of national party politics in Britain, constituency-level electoral marginality makes it easier for citizens to select parties based on policy. Using data from the 2005 and 2010 British Election Studies... Read More about Getting it right when it counts: constituency marginality and voters’ perceptions of British parties’ policy positions.

Pretty faces, marginal races: Predicting election outcomes using trait assessments of British parliamentary candidates (2013)
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The conventional wisdom on Western European politics leads us to believe that all the "action" lies with parties, because the unified parliamentary delegations in Western Europe draw voters' attention to parties' policies and images. Though British e... Read More about Pretty faces, marginal races: Predicting election outcomes using trait assessments of British parliamentary candidates.