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Disease processes and terminology cannot be determined by opinion polls but have to be based on objective facts: The "white dots" case. [PDF]

open access: yesSaudi J Ophthalmol
Herbort CP   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 26-36, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election delivered a verdict on an unpopular Conservative government, a valence election where the key motivation was to remove a government seen as failing. But this is not a full account of the voting choices of the British public.
Paula Surridge
wiley   +1 more source

The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
wiley   +1 more source

Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
wiley   +1 more source

German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

- A MODEL OF VOTING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION AND OPINION POLLS [PDF]

open access: yes
A one-dimensional model of spatial political competition with incomplete information is developed.It is assumed that voters care about the distribu-tion of votes among the two candidates.
Ignacio Ortuño Ortín
core  

Has the Moment for Electoral Reform at Westminster Finally Arrived?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise to power of Andy Burnham, a vocal critic of first past the post, has put Westminster electoral reform back on the political agenda. This article examines the case for reforming the voting system, why it has strengthened in recent years, why efforts have failed before and what this tells us about the necessary conditions for reform: a ...
Robert Ford
wiley   +1 more source

The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the underlying cause.
Tahir Abbas
wiley   +1 more source

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