For once, it could serve the interests of the governing party to change the voting rules.

Labour mayor Sadiq Khan has warned Londoners against a protest vote for the Green Party at the local elections as 'public office isn't about protest, it's about service'

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A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Even though the position is now coveted by politicians, Londoners don’t feel their mayors are delivering.

Welcome to Dods Conversations, an interview series featuring leading academics from Queen Mary University of London, where they talk about their area of expertise and what they can tell us about UK po...

“London is a Labour city” was always something of an exaggeration but it’s even more misleading today than it has been for quite a while. Polling just released by the Mile End Institute (MEI) at Queen...

The public expects to see tangible improvements in this Parliament in the NHS, schools and housing, according to new polling.

The best politics “loo” book you will ever buy! Based on Philip Cowley’s fascinating column in The House magazine, this is a book perfect for multiple sittings, discussing the politi...

What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? While research shows that obtaining a degree tends to make students more sociall…

Expectations of what the future holds are a significant driver of political behavior. It is therefore important to understand the sources of those expectations. In this paper, we explore the psycholog...

In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House readers. Here: the graduate voter. Illustration by...

Until the opposition groups can agree to join forces, any rebellion by unhappy Labour MPs is likely to be doomed, research shows

In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House’s readers. This week: scum

EXCLUSIVE: Survey finds support for Labour in the capital has dropped ‘dramatically’ since Sir Keir Starmer's landslide victory on July 4

Family-friendly practices in parliaments are central to the recruitment and retention of diverse representatives. Yet, instituting such reforms raises questions about public reactions, something litt...

While cross-sectional research has consistently shown graduates are less Eurosceptic than non-graduates, little is known about the causal role of university study in determining these attitudes, as f....

What influences Londoners’ wellbeing? Research identifies local and national policy ideas to improve social cohesion

Sadiq Khan is ahead of his Tory rival Susan Hall by 50 per cent to 25 per cent, the research by Queen Mary University of London's Mile End Institute found.

Exclusive poll suggests Sadiq Khan is on course for a 'comfortable victory' in mayoral race, according to academics at Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End Institute