The fear that allowing foreign residents to vote in local elections would benefit left-wing parties turns out to be wrong.

Politicians are using AI as part of their campaigns. But while voters are OK with AI use for data analysis, they disapprove of it for image and video creation.

Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…

Jonathan Portes asks how useful a measure immigration statistics are and argues that they have served to legitimate politics of racialised grievance.

Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok are all returning different answers to voters’ questions

AI chatbots – such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude – are fast becoming part of our everyday lives. Citizens turn to these online tools for private conversations about relation...

Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between

Inherited wealth has often been accumulated under circumstances seen as undeserving by present-day standards. However, there is surprisingly little knowledge about the political consequences of wealth...

Sometimes I like to start my class with a provocative quote relevant to what we’ll be discussing that week.

High numbers of undecideds may partially explain the late swing to the Greens.

Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations

Workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information May 12, 2026 | University College Dublin Hosted by ParliView We invite submissions for a one-day in-person workshop on building and studying AI s...

Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has als...