Month: August 2014

The Electoral State of the Parties, 1: Labour

Posted on 26 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As I did last year, I’m going to use this period – roughly the end of the summer holidays, with the Assembly due to reconvene soon and the main party […]

Coming Soon…

Posted on 22 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Starting next week - though probably not on Bank Holiday Monday - I'll be publishing a series of blog posts assessing the Electoral State of the Parties. As with the […]

A brief note on constitutional insanity

Posted on 18 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  We know that, barring something truly extraordinary, there will be a UK general election on 7th May 2015. That election will consume much of the attention of politics watchers […]

Plaid Cymru’s Strategic Dilemma

Posted on 11 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  For members and supporters of Plaid Cymru, the devolution years have been a strange mix of achievement and failure, fulfilment and frustration. The positives are considerable. First and foremost […]

On Uniform National Swing

Posted on 5 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  One welcome development in Welsh political life and electoral analysis over the last year has been the growth in regular political polling. We now have more regularly reported measures […]