Is the electoral system broken?
According to the Electoral Reform Society the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast. For full results see the Electoral Commission website and the House of Commons Library Briefing.
Students, debt and standard of living
The Sutton Trust estimated in 2014 that students graduate with £44,000 debt and this week the Centre for Policy Studies reported that generation Y (born 1980-2000) will have a lower economic standard of living than their parents.
American race riots
Newsmuseum has created a teaching and learning site which has archived front pages of newspaper coverage of events, plus lesson plans and links to historical resources on early 20th-century American race riots.
Can social media predict election results?
A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election. Compare this with the latest analysis from the Oxford Internet Institute. UK Election Analysis 2015: Media, Voters and the Campaign which contains 73 contributions from UK academics issued just 10 […]
UK Elections: voter’s regret
Voter’s regret An interesting fact has been the surge in LibDem membership applications since the election. The Conversation discusses the psychology of voter regret. VoteBee is a fascinating app from Loughborough University which aims to extract the emotions in tweets. Find out what voters felt about the parties.
UK Election Polls
Why were the general election polls wrong? Now the election votes have been counted, commentators are asking why many of the polls were wrong. Some refer to the ‘shy Tory’ who does not want to publicly admit to voting Conservative. This concept emerged in 1992 when the proportion of the vote won by the Conservative […]
1929 election cartoons on women voters
University of Kent archive has fascinating examples of cartoons from newspapers on how women will vote!
UK Election
Fantasy Front bench Who would be your fantasy front bench for the UK government? This fun tool has been created with the support of mySociety and Joseph Rowntree Trust using data from Public Whip and They Work For You. It encourages voters to deepen their knowledge of the work of politicians by providing them with […]
100 Voices that made the BBC – Elections
A significant new audio and visual archive of historic election coverage released as part of a research project by the BBC and University of Sussex. It includes film material from every election since 1950, archive documents on the development of election broadcasting and oral history clips with politicians and presenters. For example see this clip […]
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