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Party matters more than gender in explaining how candidates campaign
Read MoreIsobel Parkes and Siim Trumm compare the leaflets distributed by candidates in the run up to the 2019 General Election using data from the OpenElections project.
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What have Holyrood and Senedd campaigns looked like?
Read MoreCaitlin 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreCheck 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 MoreRead 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
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.