In this article, I offer a review of the uses and findings regarding public issue salience in the
political science literature, with a focus on electoral behaviour. I argue that in spite of the …

Long-term social and demographic changes-and the conflicts they create-continue to
transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford …

Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain,
the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain …

This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of
increasing electoral volatility in British elections, and the role of electoral shocks in the …

Word embeddings, the coefficients from neural network models predicting the use of words
in context, have now become inescapable in applications involving natural language …

Party system issue agendas are formed by the topics that individual parties decide to
address, and these salience decisions are likely to be strategic. Two key strategies are …

Claims of bias against female candidates abound in American politics. From superficial
media coverage to gender stereotypes held by voters, the conventional wisdom is that …

Using decades of public opinion data from the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Canada, and
distinguishing between three concepts-issue ownership, performance and generalised …

Do political parties respond to shifts in the preferences of their supporters, which we label
the partisan constituency model, or to shifts in the mean voter position (the general …

Issue ownership is commonly conceptualized as multidimensional, consisting of a
“competence” dimension and an “associative” dimension. Because existing …