This has been an exciting week for me personally, as the last seven days has seen the publication of my latest book, The End of British Party Politics? The book explores what I argue is one of the most important developments in contemporary democratic politics: the hollowing out of a genuinely British party politics, and Read more
Today’s blog post is a guest post by my colleague Dr Siim Trumm of the University of Nottingham. You can find Siim on Twitter @SiimTrumm. Dual candidacy – i.e., the ability of candidates to stand for office in single member districts and regional party lists simultaneously – is a contested feature of the additional Read more
The new Welsh Political Barometer poll is the second to be published in just over a fortnight. Outside of the 2017 general election, I can’t ever recall having two Welsh polls published in such short succession. Verily doth our cup runneth over… The two polls have been conducted by two of the most widely-respected polling Read more
With the troubles of Brexit continue to figure highly on the political agenda, and the troubles of the First Minister still dominating much political discussion in Cardiff Bay, what impact has this had on the public standing of the parties? First, let’s look at voting intentions for a general election. These are the figures produced Read more
Today sees publication of the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll – the ongoing collaboration between ITV-Cymru Wales, YouGov and Cardiff University, which provides the only regular opinion polling in Wales. Once again, our new poll has asked a couple of questions about the defining political issue of the moment – Brexit. In discussion of the Read more
Some of you will be familiar with Matt Forde’s Political Party podcast, which has grown a very substantial audience in recent times. I was delighted to be invited by Matt to be the first ever academic to appear on the show. It was a wide-ranging discussion, covering the 2017 general election, Brexit, the future of Read more
The recently-published ICM poll for BBC Wales also included a short set of questions about Brexit. Usefully, these questions were repeated from the same poll conducted last year, so it gives us some opportunity to see if there has been any change in attitudes over the last twelve months. The question format first of all Read more
One question, which has been repeated from similar BBC/ICM polls over the last few years, enquired about constitutional preferences. Respondents were presented with several options as to how Wales might be governed and asked ‘Which of these statements comes closest to your view?’ Fortunately, the BBC have retained a consistent question wording (as well as Read more
BBC Wales is today publishing findings from its annual poll on political issues. As is now traditional results are being published on Wales’ national day, St David’s Day. Also as in previous years the poll was conducted by ICM, with fieldwork by telephone. A sample of just over 1000 respondents was obtained. Although I work Read more
This week we will see the fourth by-election in the history of the National Assembly for Wales. By-elections only occur when constituency seats become vacant. As we were reminded over the Christmas break, when a regional list AM vacates their seat, for whatever reason, they will normally be replaced by the next person on that Read more
