Stuart Wilks-Heeg looks at the role of marginal seats in this election. The related paper ‘A tale of two electorates: why some voters are more equal than others’ is also available from Democratic Audit
The swing voter’s curse is useful for explaining patterns of voter participation, but arises because...
Substantial evidence shows that candidates’ and parties’ performances in constituencies at UK genera...
A little-reported result of the 2015 general election was a substantial reduction in the number of m...
This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record....
This article argues that despite the importance of national party politics in Britain, constituency-...
Of the many indicators of various kinds hosted on the constituency pages of the Democratic Dashboard...
The analysis of electoral turnout reveals some paradoxical results. One, the `paradox of voting&apos...
In this year’s midterm elections only 36.4 percent of eligible voters turned out to cast a ballot. B...
This article examines the electoral impact of spillover effects in local campaigns in Britain. For t...
An extensive literature demonstrates that local campaign efforts in the UK generally pay electoral d...
The 2015 election has seen more constituency-level opinion polls than any previous election, most of...
The commonly used yardsticks of how well the national parties are doing in local elections can be co...
Are so called “safe seats” safe because of the devotion of their electors to a particular political ...
Few analyses of the election result have got beyond the headline outcome and started to unpick the d...
Electoral turnout is an important measure of the health of a liberal democracy. Although research id...
The swing voter’s curse is useful for explaining patterns of voter participation, but arises because...
Substantial evidence shows that candidates’ and parties’ performances in constituencies at UK genera...
A little-reported result of the 2015 general election was a substantial reduction in the number of m...
This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record....
This article argues that despite the importance of national party politics in Britain, constituency-...
Of the many indicators of various kinds hosted on the constituency pages of the Democratic Dashboard...
The analysis of electoral turnout reveals some paradoxical results. One, the `paradox of voting&apos...
In this year’s midterm elections only 36.4 percent of eligible voters turned out to cast a ballot. B...
This article examines the electoral impact of spillover effects in local campaigns in Britain. For t...
An extensive literature demonstrates that local campaign efforts in the UK generally pay electoral d...
The 2015 election has seen more constituency-level opinion polls than any previous election, most of...
The commonly used yardsticks of how well the national parties are doing in local elections can be co...
Are so called “safe seats” safe because of the devotion of their electors to a particular political ...
Few analyses of the election result have got beyond the headline outcome and started to unpick the d...
Electoral turnout is an important measure of the health of a liberal democracy. Although research id...
The swing voter’s curse is useful for explaining patterns of voter participation, but arises because...
Substantial evidence shows that candidates’ and parties’ performances in constituencies at UK genera...
A little-reported result of the 2015 general election was a substantial reduction in the number of m...