On Being a Complete Slacker

Posted on 24 August 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Posts on the blog will be sparse for the next couple of weeks, as I am taking some time off to re-charge the psephological batteries. It’s been a busy electoral year, while the next twelve months are unlikely to offer many quiet periods either. So please forgive my slothfulness. To keep you going while I
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The Public Legitimacy of the National Assembly

Posted on 17 August 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Although one or two people seem to find it hard to believe, running this blog is essentially a spare-time activity for me. My day-job at Cardiff University involves me teaching and trying to produce academic research that will be published in professional journals, books etc. Much of that research, of course, informs the material that
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Perfformio yn y ‘Steddfod

Posted on 10 August 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Fel y soniais yn fyr yn fy mhost diwethaf, yr wyf yn treulio llawer dydd Mercher yr wythnos ddiwethaf yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ym Meifod. (Wel, dweud y gwir, treuliais tua phedair awr yno, a chwe awr yn gyrru o Gaerdydd i Meifod ac yn ôl!). Fy mhrif bwrpas ar gyfer mynychu oedd i wneud
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We Are a Toddler

Posted on 6 August 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

It occurred to me yesterday – somewhere during my six hours of driving to and from the National Eisteddfod – that Elections in Wales passed its second birthday sometime last month. Penblywdd hapus i ni / Happy Birthday to us. I hope that you have found something of what we have published over the last
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Local Campaigning at the 2011 National Assembly Election

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As next year’s Assembly election looms ever larger, one of the things that the parties will be – or, at least, certainly should be – focussing on is their local campaigning effort. It’s fair to say that local campaigning used to be seen by most political scientists as pretty unimportant within elections – a quaint
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