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Benefits and costs of party diversity

Maria Sobolewska By Maria Sobolewska Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: July 22, 2015

Why do Conservatives try so hard to increase their ethnic diversity while Labour takes minorities for granted? It all depends on who their target voter is. Labour’s target voters thought less of the party when they knew about its ethnic diversity, Conservative’s target voters were the opposite, explains Maria Sobolewska. For political parties the question […]

Tagged With: conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP

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Will a Greater Manchester Mayor mean even more great stuff happens?

By Andrew Wilson Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Featured Posted: April 17, 2015

At the Summat New event in Leeds, a group of 20 people from the North, who had never met before, sat in a circle and asked this question: “Are the voices of people living and working in places in the north of England fairly heard in our national conversation?” Here Andrew Wilson answers the question. The […]

Tagged With: conservatives, devolution, DevoManc, green party, Labour, Westminister, Whitehall

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Where’s the evidence for IDS’s new ‘smartcard’ scheme for poor?

David Hulme By David Hulme Filed Under: Featured Posted: September 30, 2014

Iain Duncan Smith has announced the launch of pre-paid cards, loaded with benefit payments to ensure that money will go to feed families and not “self-destructive habits”. It was an initiative that attracted applause from his Conservative party colleagues. But, asks Professor David Hulme, is it really necessary? Hear Prof David Hulme speak at a […]

Tagged With: benefits, conservatives, Iain Duncan Smith, IDS, state aid, universal credit, welfare

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Polling Observatory 40: Treading water as Scotland’s big moment approaches

Rob FordMark PickupWill JenningsChristopher Wlezien By Rob Ford, Mark Pickup, Will Jennings and Christopher Wlezien Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted: September 9, 2014

This is the fortieth in a series of posts by Dr Robert Ford, Dr Will Jennings, Dr Mark Pickup and Prof Christopher Wlezien that report on the state of the parties in the UK as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence, the impact of the random variation that each individual survey inevitably produces can […]

Tagged With: conservatives, GE2015, general election, Labour, Liberal Democrats, polling observatory, Scotland, Scottish referendum, UKIP, voters, voting

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The Polling Observatory Forecast 3: Slow decline in Tory prospects, but still too close to call

Rob FordWill JenningsMark PickupChristopher Wlezien By Rob Ford, Will Jennings, Mark Pickup and Christopher Wlezien Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted: July 17, 2014

As explained in the inaugural election forecast, up until May next year the Polling Observatory team will be producing a long term forecast for the 2015 General Election, using methods first applied ahead of the 2010 election (and which are also well-established in the United States). The authors’ method involves trying to make the best […]

Tagged With: conservatives, election, GE2015, general election, Labour, Liberal Democrat, polling, voters, voting

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Nomination of Mr Juncker – A tentative step forward for European democracy?

Georgios Papanagnou By Georgios Papanagnou Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: July 1, 2014

David Cameron failed to block Jean Claude Juncker from being nominated by the European Council for the post of European Commission President. Dr. Georgios Papanagnou takes a look at some of the weaknesses in the campaigns by Cameron and the British media. In the end “this time was not so much different” – Jean Claude […]

Tagged With: conservatives, election, elections, EU, europe, government, parliament, party politics, politics

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The Polling Observatory Forecast 2: Still A Dead Heat, Despite Recent Turbulence

Rob FordMark PickupWill JenningsChristopher Wlezien By Rob Ford, Mark Pickup, Will Jennings and Christopher Wlezien Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted: June 18, 2014

As explained in the previous inaugural election forecast last month, up until May next year the Polling Observatory team will be producing a long term forecast for the 2015 General Election, using methods first applied ahead of the 2010 election (and which are also well-established in the United States). The method employed involves trying to make the […]

Tagged With: conservatives, election, GE2015, Labour, Liberal Democrats, polling

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Polling Observatory 37: No Westminster polling aftershock from European earthquake

Rob FordWill JenningsMark PickupChristopher Wlezien By Rob Ford, Will Jennings, Mark Pickup and Christopher Wlezien Filed Under: Featured, Polling Observatory Posted: June 10, 2014

This is the thirty-seventh in a series of posts by Dr Robert Ford, Dr Will Jennings, Dr Mark Pickup and Prof Christopher Wlezien  that report on the state of the parties in the UK as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence, the impact of the random variation that each individual survey inevitably produces […]

Tagged With: conservatives, GE2015, general election, Labour, Lib Dems, opinion polls, politics, polling, pollsters, UKIP

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Polling Observatory #35 (March 2014): Politics, Fast and Slow

Rob FordMark PickupWill Jennings By Rob Ford, Mark Pickup and Will Jennings Filed Under: Polling Observatory Posted: April 8, 2014

This is the thirty-fifth in a series of posts that report by Dr Robert Ford, Dr Will Jennings and Dr Mark Pickup on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence the impact of the random variation each individual survey inevitably produces can be reduced. Most of the short […]

Tagged With: conservatives, education policy, election, GE2015, Labour, Liberal Democrats, polling, UKIP, voting

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Females to the fore in reshuffle – but women’s policy input may remain limited

Francesca GainsClaire Annesley By Francesca Gains and Claire Annesley Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: October 7, 2013

As expected, David Cameron has boosted the number of women in his Government. But this strategy is problematic, argue Professors Claire Annesley and Francesca Gains, and may not address the lack of women’s policy input in decision making. Earlier this spring Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s former spin doctor, suggested that ‘Sam Cam’ was the Conservatives’ ‘secret […]

Tagged With: cameron, coalition, conservatives, election, government, policy, reshuffle, women

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