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Tactical voting on the basis of the 2014 European Elections
Disclaimer: I am a Labour Party member and will be voting for Labour in May’s European Elections. This blog is not intended to encourage tactical voting but to explore from an academic perspective whether various parties’ claims to be “the main Remain party” in the upcoming European Elections stand up to scrutiny. One of the biggest…
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The Impact of Electoral Systems on Economic Democracy in Developed Democracies
This essay was written for the quantitative methods component of my comparative politics module. A PDF of the essay is available here, R code is available here, and replication data is available here. With the challenges of climate change, globalisation and a backlash against established political and economic institutions, many political commentators have pointed to…
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Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Union
You can download Greens for Europe, the book which I contributed to, here: PDF eBook Physical copies are available in the shops listed here.
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Labour Should Put Post-16 Education at the Heart of its National Education Service
This article was originally published in Look Left – Oxford University Labour Club‘s termly journal. Education funding has been a hot political issue in recent years, with schools facing a funding crisis and controversial tuition fees being introduced in higher education. Until recently, however, further education has been largely missing from the conversation. Despite bearing…
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Greens for a Better Europe – Book
I’m really excited to see the launch of Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Parliament, a book which I contributed a chapter to, co-authored by Klina Jordan. The book will be available from early March. Until then, here is the abstract of mine and Klina’s chapter.…
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How Labour Can Seize The Initiative From The Independent Group
This was originally posted as a HuffPost article: How Labour Can Seize The Initiative From The Independent Group As of Thursday at 4pm, eleven MPs – eight Labour and three Conservative – had left their respective parties to join ‘The Independent Group’, sparking a political crisis for both main parties. I say sparking, but in…
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Why Trade Unions Need to Make Votes Matter
The trade union case for Proportional Representation.
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OULC Term Card Hilary 2019
Here is this term’s series of events, for which I will be co-chair!
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Labour4PR: Invite a speaker and call for electoral reform!
It’s a new year, and we are renewing our efforts for Labour to adopt Proportional Representation as party policy. You can see my case for doing so, in LabourList, here. So far, an unprecedented fifty-three (53) Constituency Labour Parties have passed motions calling on Labour to support PR for Westminster. Make Votes Matter has now added…
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Oxford Climate Review: Out of Proportion
How electoral systems can transform climate policy
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Owen Winter 