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Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications
Read MoreCheck out our new paper, recently published in Political Studies Review, which introduces our new dataset covering more than 8,600 election leaflets from four British general elections.
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Hidden connections: The gender gap in personalised campaigning
Read MorePresentation from the 2019 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference held at the University of Strathclyde.
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Conceived in Harlesden
Read MoreRead a summary of our new paper, ‘Conceived in Harlesden’: When do candidates emphasise their local connections in UK general elections?, published in Parliamentary Affairs.
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Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-centred campaigning in British general elections
Read MoreA new paper on the use of candidate-centric messaging in British election leaflets has been published in Parliamentary Affairs.
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The face of the party? Leader personalization in British campaigns
Read MoreA new paper on the use of leader images in British election leaflets has been published in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
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Leaflet messaging in 2017 and 2015 general elections
Presentation from the 2017 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference held at the University of Nottingham.Read More -
On the attack: The role of negative campaigning
Read MoreCheck out More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box: Another Fifty Things You Need to Know About British Elections, which includes a chapter on negative messaging in election leaflets.
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Revealed: The party with the most negative election campaign
Read MoreLeaflets from Labour and the Liberal Democrats were the most likely to contain negative messages, while UKIP and Greens tended to avoid criticising their opponents.
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Unpopular leaders missing from 2015 leaflets
Read MoreCameron featured more prominently in 2015 general election leaflets than Miliband, but both Cameron and Clegg appear in far fewer leaflets than they did in 2010.