European Elections in Wales, 2: the prospects for UKIP

Posted on 23 September 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As discussed in my previous post, the next major electoral event in Wales will be the European Parliament (EP) election in May 2014. Substantial academic research has been conducted on EP elections: an amount that might seem excessive to many. But for academics EP elections are a delight: simultaneous contests to the same political institution
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European Elections in Wales, 1

Posted on 18 September 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Next May will see elections to the European Parliament (EP) across the EU, as has happened every five years since the inaugural polls in 1979. Towards the end of this post, and in a future one, I’ll consider the prospects for 2014. But first it might be of value to look back to what has
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Devolved Elections and UK Politics

Posted on 12 September 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

One question that has preoccupied many analysts of politics in Scotland and Wales since 1999 is how to understand devolved elections. A question that arises here is the extent to which devolved elections are shaped by factors specific to the devolved political arena, or how much they are influenced by UK-wide politics. Actually, this is
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