U.K. Conservatives are in trouble if they can’t choose a leader quickly
Conservative members of Parliament don’t want the ‘mad swivel-eyed loons’ deciding who replaces Liz Truss as party leader
Who chooses Boris Johnson’s replacement? Check the party rules.
When party activists have too much say, they can hurt the party’s chances of winning a general election
Biden reappointed Republican Jerome Powell to head the Fed. Why didn’t he pick a Democrat?
Yes, Biden praises bipartisanship. But reappointing Powell also offers the White House some advantages.
People thought tactical voting was a big deal in Britain’s general election. It wasn’t.
It is wildly unlikely that Labour could have won, even if British voters had been more tactically aware
Conservatives won big in the U.K. election — for these two reasons.
Pundit point to one reason or the other — but it’s both.
British voters care more about Brexit than about party loyalties
Polarization on Brexit will challenge British democracy, no matter who wins today
Will Boris Johnson get the majority he needs to finish Brexit at last?
These four things could determine this week’s U.K. election.
Boris Johnson wants to get tougher on crime. Voters might reward him for it.
The London Bridge knife attack put a spotlight on voters’ worries.
The U.K. is voting — again. Here are 4 possible ways the parliamentary election could go.
Keep your eyes on Nigel Farage.
Boris Johnson wants to call a U.K. election. But can he win it?
Nothing is simple in British politics at the moment
British voters used to care about political parties. Now they just care about Brexit.
What to do about Europe overwhelms U.K. views on almost everything else.
What do British voters think of their new prime minister?
Here’s why the new Brexit Party may be a threat.
How do U.K. voters feel now about the E.U.? Here’s what our survey found.
In the European Parliament elections, Conservatives and Labour alike saw their support plummet.
New study of 381,000 political speeches finds that liberals use more complex language than conservatives
We examined the sentences of politicians in four countries.
Moldovans vote on Sunday. Here’s the man to watch.
A woman walks past electoral campaign posters Friday in downtown
Five things we just learned from the U.K. elections
http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/what-theresa-mays-tepid-win-means-for-britain/2017/06/09/f678f9c0-4d27-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_video.html Theresa May’s election gamble failed. Enticed by large leads
Sure, the U.S. and Russia often meddle in foreign elections. Does it matter?
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Could a third-party candidate win the U.S. presidency? That’s very unlikely.
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There’s new U.K. campaign spending data from the 2015 general election. Here’s how the Tories won.
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Has Britain’s Labour party already lost the 2020 election?
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Has Britain's Labour party already lost the 2020 election?
[caption id="attachment_29358" align="aligncenter" width="982"] Jeremy Corbyn speaks on stage after
Who benefits from a British referendum on European Union membership?
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What changed and what stayed the same in the U.K. election
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What the runners-up tell us about Britain's election
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What the runners-up tell us about Britain’s election
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Britain's election highlights the instability of its political system
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Britain’s election highlights the instability of its political system
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Britain no longer has national parties
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What happened with the British election polls?
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Live cross-stitching of Britain's election results
Pollsters, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, and Ed Miliband are
Live cross-stitching of Britain’s election results
Pollsters, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, and Ed Miliband are
Tweeting Britain's #hashtag election
Word cloud of most-used Twitter hashtags and handles in 19.6
Tweeting Britain’s #hashtag election
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Four key developments to watch in the British election
The following is a guest post by political scientist Tim Haughton
What would Britain look like under Proportional Representation?
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Personality will affect the British election results, but not the way you think it will…
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India’s election isn’t as historic as people think
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India's election isn't as historic as people think
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In America, polarization is a problem. In Britain, it could be a solution.
Robert Ford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of
Sure, Congress is polarized. But other legislatures are more so.
David W. Brady is the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur
The real effects of the European elections may be felt in London and Edinburgh rather than in Brussels
This is a guest post by Cas Mudde, assistant professor in
Cameron Defeated on Syria by Ghost of Blair
We welcome another guest post by Stephen Benedict Dyson.
A Resonant Signal: The Russian Parliamentary Elections of December 2011
Our next report on the 2011 Russian parliamentary elections comes
Canadian Election Update
This is a guest post from "Richard Johnston":http://www.politics.ubc.ca/index.php?id=2462, Canada Research
Pippa Norris has a posse
Or should have one at least. Via Matthew Shugart, she
What does the new British coalition have to tell us about models of coalition formation?
In the wake of the exceedingly quick wrap up of
No Matter What You Hear, Don’t Count on the British Coalition Lasting Five Years
Despite the claims of Conservative and LIberal Democratic politicians that
Fixed Term Parliament: The Magic Number
The introduction of UK legislation to create fixed-term (5 year)
Why Such a Quick Coalition Formation?
I agree with Matt Yglesias that it is pretty amazing
More UK Vote Geekery
One of our readers, Jim Bach, sent us some interesting
What Do We Know About Minority Governments?
And so the British have their "hung parliament." While there
LSE Live Webcasting and Blogging the British Election Results
You can find the webcast "here":http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndmedia/videoAndAudio/publicEventsVideos/LSELive.aspx and the live blog
Ideological Polarization and the Lib Dem vote.
"Matthew Yglesias":http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/05/blame-the-electoral-system-or-blame-the-party-leaders.php talks about the UK party system. bq. For
Duverger’s Law and the UK elections
About to be broken? (or, to be a bit less
New advances in the visual display of quantitative information
The BBC will "project a bar chart":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8656578.stm of the number
Strategic voting in the UK
Josh asks in comments below whether there is any way
The UK election again
Probably my final bit of pseudo-political scientific speculation on the
Get Your UK Election Forecasting Here
Simon Hix and Nick Vivyan at LSE provide the "most
Sincere Voting in the 2010 British Elections
When I teach strategic voting to my undergraduates, I define
Bidding starts over electoral reform
"Matthew Shugart reports":http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=3918. Today’s Guardian notes that Conservative leader David
Incentives for PR after the UK elections
A short follow-up to the post on Nick Clegg's electoral
What Happens if No Party in the UK Gets a Majority in the Upcoming Parliamentary Election?
This was the topic of our lunch time discussion yesterday
Presidential debates in comparative perspective
So the United Kingdom had its first of three 'presidential'
Who are the liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, part 2
Recently I posted some graphs showing that liberal Democrats have