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What have Holyrood and Senedd campaigns looked like?
Caitlin Milazzo and Siim Trumm discuss previous Holyrood and Senedd election leaflets using data from the OpenElections project.
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Election leaflets suggest campaigns have become less personalised
In their latest blog, Caitlin Milazzo and Siim Trumm discuss how candidates’ attributes feature in general election leaflets using data from the OpenElections project.
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Brexit flashback: Mapping its rise from electoral fringes to centre stage
Check out our new blog for UK in a Changing Europe on the coverage of Europe/Brexit in general election leaflets from 2010 to 2019.
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OpenElections: introducing the largest collection of British election communications in existence
Read a summary of our new paper on LSE’s British Politics blog, which introduces our new dataset covering more than 8,600 election leaflets from four British general elections.
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Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications
Check 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
Presentation from the 2019 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference held at the University of Strathclyde.
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Conceived in Harlesden
Read 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
A 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
A new paper on the use of leader images in British election leaflets has been published in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.