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

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

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections (2018)
Journal Article
Milazzo, C., & Townsley, J. (2020). Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections. Parliamentary Affairs, 73(1), 127-146. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsy040

© 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)
Journal Article
Milazzo, C., & Hammond, J. (2018). The face of the party? Leadership personalisation in British campaigns. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 28(3), 263-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2017.1394309

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)
Journal Article
Milazzo, C., Moser, R. G., & Scheiner, E. (2018). Social diversity affects the number of parties even under first-past-the-post rule. Comparative Political Studies, 51(7), 938-974. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017720704

Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit (2017)
Journal Article
Goodwin, M., & Milazzo, C. (in press). Taking back control?: investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148117710799

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.

UKIP: inside the campaign to redraw the map of British politics (2015)
Book
Goodwin, M., & Milazzo, C. (2015). UKIP: inside the campaign to redraw the map of British politics. Oxford University Press

Getting it right when it counts: constituency marginality and voters’ perceptions of British parties’ policy positions (2014)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article
Mattes, K., & Milazzo, C. (2014). Pretty faces, marginal races: Predicting election outcomes using trait assessments of British parliamentary candidates. Electoral Studies, 34, 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.11.004

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.