Tag: Progressive Alliance

  • What effect did progressive cooperation have on the 2022 English local elections?

    What effect did progressive cooperation have on the 2022 English local elections?

    This research was originally posted as an LSE Politics and Policy blog post, here. Across England, hundreds of wards in the local elections had only one ‘progressive’ candidate (Labour, Liberal Democrat or Green). I have tried to estimate the effect that this had on their vote shares, using a technique called “Coarsened Exact Matching” (CEM).…

  • Tactical voting on the basis of the 2014 European Elections

    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…