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It wasn't like this in 1979 [PDF]
, 2014 A short talk on the difference between the 1979 referendum campaign and the 2014 ...
Marney, Laura
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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 65-73, January/March 2025.Abstract The UK's 2024 general election was the least proportional of modern times. Labour's substantial parliamentary majority rested on the smallest ever winning party vote share. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered one of their worst ever results.
Charles Pattie, David Cutts
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, 2014 Polish migrants are the largest non-UK born population in Scotland (56,000 in 2012). As EU citizens who are resident in Scotland, they are eligible to vote in the 18 September 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.
McGhee, Derek, Pietka-Nykaza, Emilia
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
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INEQUALITY AND THE REFERENDUM LEVY [PDF]
This study examines whether or not the referendum levy generates revenue disparities among school districts. More specifically, we hypothesize that if the referendum levy generates inequalities in school finance, a positive relationship will exist ...
Kaiser, Harry M., Nelson, Glenn L.
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Impartiality, statistical tit-for tats and the construction of balance: UK television news reporting of the 2016 EU referendum campaign [PDF]
, 2017 There has been greater news industry recognition in recent years that impartiality should not be translated into simply balancing the competing sides of a debate or issue.
Cushion, Stephen, Lewis, Justin
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Post-Truth Politics in the UK's Brexit Referendum
New perspectives, 2018 The term post-truth became the 2016 Oxford Dictionary word of the year, yet many scholars question whether the term signals anything new, or whether post-truth is just lying, which has always been a part of politics and media.
H. Marshall, Alena Drieschova
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
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Voter Turnout in Direct Democracy: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
We analyse voter turnout as a function of referendum types. An advisory referendum produces advice that a legislature may or may not take into account when choosing between two alternatives, whereas a binding referendum generates a decisive decision.
Søberg, Morten, Tangerås, Thomas P.
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Political Uncertainty Exposure of Individual Companies: The Case of the Brexit Referendum
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018 This paper studies cross-sectional determinants of the exposure of U.K. firms to Brexit, an event which resulted in an unprecedented rise in political uncertainty.
P. Hill, Adriana Korczak, Piotr Korczak
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