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Children with politically engaged parents are more likely to deviate from their parents’ political views 17 May 2013 | 10:00 am
Posted in Young People Image by Justin Russell How do we end up supporting a specific political party? Why do some people in the UK, for instance, call themselves Labour or Conservative supporters, ...
A far more insidious recession awaits if we don’t address the environmental deficit 16 May 2013 | 09:28 am
Posted in British Politics , Environment Image by Christian Bauer At the last Conservative conference, George Osbourne announced “We’re not going to save the planet by putting our country out of bus...
Picturing Politics: the 2013 Pakistan elections 15 May 2013 | 09:34 am
Posted in Picturing Politics In the first post in the Picturing Politics series Prof Katharine Adeney looks at the Pakistan Peoples Party 2013 manifesto, which features a prominent image of Benazir Bh...
Cambo Chained 14 May 2013 | 10:00 am
Posted in Revolts We’ve been producing end-of session reports on the behaviour of government MPs at Westminster for almost a decade. Last year’s was a record-breaker : Coalition MPs rebelling more of...
Politics Departments on Twitter: A (Draft) League Table 14 May 2013 | 09:37 am
Posted in Academic Impact Image by Jurgen Appelo Twitter is becoming an indispensable tool for the modern academic. Sceptics might doubt it, but the social media platform is perfectly designed to fa...
Coming soon… 13 May 2013 | 06:14 pm
Posted in Picturing Politics The School of Politics and International Relations is committed to the use of social media to share our research and further a wider understanding of politics. Our latest ...
How do the public react to rebellious MPs? 13 May 2013 | 09:32 am
Posted in British Politics , Revolts Tomorrow, we launch our annual report on the rebelliousness of MPs, packed full of data about the behaviour of MPs in the last session – who’s rebelled, how often,...
Happy existential crisis to the coalition? 10 May 2013 | 12:01 pm
Posted in British Politics If you are a political scientist or a political historian or – like me – some hybrid of the two, you really should avoid predicting the future. That said, put a microphone...
Polling Observatory #24: Blue revival, purple advance 2 May 2013 | 10:51 am
Posted in Polling Observatory This is the twenty-fourth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evide...
Making an impact: Writing and recording ‘Very British Dystopias’ for Radio 4 23 Apr 2013 | 12:56 pm
Posted in Academic Impact The red microphone Last week I finished a documentary for Radio 4 and I thought that some of you might be interested in knowing more about the process of getting academical...
