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The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 91-101, January/March 2025.Abstract This article examines the social base of support for Reform UK. Did Nigel Farage's new party depend on the same types of ‘left behind’ voters who had previously backed UKIP? Do the results of the 2024 election suggest a hardening of the social divides that underpinned the rise of UKIP? Or has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti‐immigration movement
Oliver Heath +3 more
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Independence and oral health: implications of the Scottish referendum [PDF]
British Dental Journal, 2014 On 18 September 2014, a referendum will be held on Scotland becoming a nation independent from the rest of the United Kingdom. Since devolution in 1999 child dental health in Scotland has improved significantly, although the National Health Service in Scotland has always been governed through a separate legislative framework from that in England and ...
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Values in the Valence Election: Fragmentation and the 2024 General Election
The 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
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Vote no to the constitutional sideshow
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014 The whole independence debate is a monumental sideshow. A waste of valuable time that could be spent on the key challenges facing our country. A waste of energy that should have been used to find solutions to the major problems of society.
Garry Coutts
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The 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
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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Predicting referendum results in the Big Data Era
Journal of Big Data, 2019 In addressing the challenge of Big Data Analytics, what has been of notable significance is the analysis of online search traffic data in order to analyze and predict human behavior.
Amaryllis Mavragani +1 more
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Different Process, Same Outcome? The Problems of Within‐Party Sortition
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract A recent article in Political Quarterly argues for a ‘sortition of candidature’. We show that because political parties are not themselves socially representative, such a scheme would not result in a socially representative Parliament. Drawing on data from the Party Members Project, we show that while some demographic groups would be better ...
Philip Cowley, Paul Webb, Tim Bale
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The argument in support of Scottish independence
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014 In this contribution to the debate I trace distinctive strands in a Scottish approach to social welfare. I make a case that manifestations of a Scottish approach are, however, susceptible to the vagaries of political decisions and directions emanating ...
Mark Smith
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Weekly Fluctuations in Risk Tolerance and Voting Behaviour.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Risk tolerance is fundamental to decision-making and behaviour. Here we show that individuals' tolerance of risk follows a weekly cycle. We observed this cycle directly in a behavioural experiment using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (Lejuez et al., 2002;
Jet G Sanders, Rob Jenkins
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