The Welsh Labour Leadership Contest

Posted on 24 April 2018 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

The last few months have clearly been difficult times, on a personal level, for many people in the Welsh Labour party. I haven’t said much about this: trying to keep completely out of commenting about the sensitive personal dimensions, and focus any comments on the more directly political implications of recent events. Some of those
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The End of British Party Politics?

Posted on 17 April 2018 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

This has been an exciting week for me personally, as the last seven days has seen the publication of my latest book, The End of British Party Politics? The book explores what I argue is one of the most important developments in contemporary democratic politics: the hollowing out of a genuinely British party politics, and
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Dual Candidacy: Yeah or Nay?

Posted on 9 April 2018 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Today’s blog post is a guest post by my colleague Dr Siim Trumm of the University of Nottingham. You can find Siim on Twitter @SiimTrumm.   Dual candidacy – i.e., the ability of candidates to stand for office in single member districts and regional party lists simultaneously – is a contested feature of the additional
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