Journal articles
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland
Migration
Refugee settlement
Social policy
UK
Access to social rights is crucial to refugee settlement and integration, and a whole range of social policy measures determine the limits on those rights. In the United…
Engineering Democracy: Electoral Rules and Turnout Inequality
Compulsory Voting
Turnout Inequality
Electoral Rules
Survey Data
The issue of unequal electoral turnout poses serious concerns for both the overall health of democratic politics, and the extent to which certain groups exert an unequal…
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Working papers
Catalysts for Progress? Policy Recommendations in Research on Renewable Energy and Climate Change
Environmental politics
Climate change
Policy recommondations
Bibliographic research
Text as data
Political parties, politicians, and governments increasingly encourage academics to make policy recommendations. Effective communication in areas like climate change and net…
A Promise made is a Promise Kept? MEPs’ Campaign Pledges and Legislative Behaviour
European Parliament
Campaign pledges
Lesiglative Behaviour
Social media
Text as data
This paper unpacks how MEPs’ communication during electoral campaigns matches their voting behaviour when in office. We argue that the policy salience and policy positions…
Brexit and the Iraq War on BBC Question Time: Demographic and Political Issue Representation in UK Public Participation Broadcasting
Media representation
UK
Brexit
Televised political debate programming plays a key function in enabling citizens to become informed of salient political topics, and provides information on parties’ stances…
EU integration through a Greener lens: Building consensus around European integration?
Environmental politics
European Parliament
Election campaigns
Social media
Text as data
EU environmental policy is one of the success stories of European integration. In this paper, we argue that popular support for EU-cantered environmental protection efforts…
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections
European Parliament
Election campaigns
Social media
Text as data
It has long been assumed that social media would equalize election campaigning by providing cheap means of communication for smaller parties who lack a strong mass media…
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