Predicting the Polls: the 2015 General Election

By Joshua Townsley For political scientists, the 2015 UK general election will be one of the most exciting in years. The traditional Labo...

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Russia's suspension of the CFE Treaty: a matter of time

Camille-Renaud Merlen argues that Russia’s de facto withdrawal from the CFE Treaty is symptomatic of the unravelling of the European secur...

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The Welfare State – The main social policy battleground in the general election?

In this post, Owen Davis discusses the hotly contested area of welfare policy in the run up to the...

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ISIS: Public opinion and the complications of International Law

Chris Hanley and James Downes discuss the ramifications surrounding ISIS, drawing on recent polling data. The article then looks at four cor...

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‘It’s Immigration, Stupid’?

In this article, which will be appearing as a research paper in Parliament Street, James Downes discusses the political saliency of immig...

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Money Can't Buy Me Votes

By Joshua Townsley In light of a recent story claiming the Tories were attempting to ‘buy’ the general election, and a rather important...

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ISIS: The Complications of International Law

Chris Hanley from TNS opinion and James Downes discuss the ramifications surrounding ISIS alongside the complications of International La...

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An Analysis of the One Way Permit Policy in Hong Kong

This article analyses the One Way Permit Policy and investigates the demographic profile of the mainland Chinese immigrants on the sch...

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Can UKIP become a ‘Major Force’ in British Politics?

By Joshua Townsley & James Downes Clacton goes purple, and Farage's Army gives Labour the scare in Heywood & Middleton, but ...

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Research Paper: Extreme Right-Wing Support in Western Europe: 1980-2002

This paper explores four theoretical models that drive extreme right-wing support in Western Europe. Eurobarometer data is utilized from 198...

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The Liberal Democrat Battleground

By Joshua Townsley Lord Ashcroft has released a huge poll of 22 English Lib Dem battleground constituencies, 20 of which are currently hel...

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The Creeping Greens

Political analysts and the media have been (justifiably) focusing their attentions on the rise of UKIP. Many column inches have bee...

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