While I Was Away…

Posted on 29 July 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  As you may have noticed, I have been away from Elections in Wales duty for a bit. While I was off re-charging my psephological batteries, Lord Ashcroft released another set of polls in key Labour-Conservative marginal seats. (The full results of all the polling are here.) As with his previous round of such polling
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Who do we Trust?

Posted on 28 July 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  Some time ago, I began a short series of Blog posts (see here and here) under the general theme of ‘hitherto neglected aspects of public attitudes to devolution’. These drew on detailed survey evidence gathered by the Wales Governance Centre here at Cardiff University, particularly the 2011 Welsh Referendum Study and 2011 Welsh Election
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Greatest Hits, etc

Posted on 16 July 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  It will soon be exactly one year since Elections in Wales was launched on an unsuspecting and defenceless world. Since then I have been pleasantly surprised, even amazed, at the level of interest that the blog has attracted. We’ve set monthly records for readership and page views in eight of the last eleven months,
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Public Attitudes to the Political Parties

Posted on 7 July 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  Elections in Wales has now been running for very nearly a year. During that time its been very pleasing to see the audience for the blog growing considerably. The many readers who haven’t been with us right from the beginning may not, therefore, be familiar with one survey question that was run on the
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July Welsh Political Barometer figures published!

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  This week sees publication of the fourth poll conducted by the Welsh Political Barometer – a unique collaboration between ITV Cymru Wales, the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, and the leading polling agency YouGov. The poll provides us with a valuable opportunity to assess the state of the parties, now that the dust
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