First Evidence on the 2015 Ground Campaigns in Wales

Posted on 27 July 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As I mentioned on the blog last week, I’m going to be having all sorts of fun over the coming weeks and months with the British Election Study (BES) data. One of the first things that I have used it for is to begin looking for systematic evidence on the parties’ ground campaigns in Wales.
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Some New Evidence on Attitudes to the EU

Posted on 20 July 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

In a recent blog post I discussed the evidence from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll on how people thought they would vote in a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU; I also showed how the findings from that poll compared with previous ones. The Barometer polls have been asking a consistently-worded question on
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How Prejudiced is Wales?

Posted on 13 July 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

The other day I was looking back through some old survey data. (Some of us just know how to party, OK?). It was the 2011 Welsh Election Study (WES) that I was looking at, and I was reminded of some questions that we ran in that study. These were a series of questions regarding various
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Welsh Political Barometer details available

Posted on 10 July 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

The full details of the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll are now online for you to look over – click on the Opinion Polls header near the top of the home page, and scroll down to the bottom. (It’s the June 2015 Barometer poll you’ll be looking for). One question that was included in the
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Referendum Voting Intentions in Wales: the latest evidence

Posted on 6 July 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Among the other matters covered in the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll, we have continued to ask people about voting intentions in two referendums that Wales may well be facing in the next few years: on partial income tax devolution to the National Assembly, and on British membership of the European Union. In our final
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