Blogging
The New Statesman- Why fewer of us want a long-term relationship … with a political party
The Washington Post-How did the pollsters get the British elections so very wrong?
The Guardian- Immigration and Euroscepticism: the rising storm
British Election Study-Brexit Britain: British Election Study Insights from the post-EU Referendum wave of the BES internet panel
Media Coverage
Polling, Survey Design and Forecasting
The Guardian – New research suggests why general election polls were so inaccurate
Phys.org- BES reveals longstanding flaw in opinion polls
The Guardian- Why the polls were wrong in 2015? Expert says ‘lazy Labour’ may offer best explanation
Independent- Election results: Just how did the exit poll manage to get it so right?
The Guardian- Liberal Democrats facing even bigger wipeout than expected
Bloomberg Business News- SurveyMonkey Fills the Gap as Traditional Political Polls Flounder
Washington Post- World values lost in translation
May 2015- Election 2015: The exit poll is believable – and is right so far.
Huffington Post- How Google Trends Predicted Donald Trump’s Rise, and What it Means for Polling
Swing voters
Independent-Britain a nation of swing voters as age of tribal politics comes to an end
The Guardian- Any party that fails to speak for England can forget about No 10
The Times- Shift toward swing voters
UKIP, Immigration and the EU
The Economist- Brexit Regret
Washington Post- No, Trump won’t win votes from disaffected Democrats in the fall
New York Times- Western Populism May be Entering an Awkward Adolescence
May 2015- Ukippers are likely to have voted Tory in 2010 – but Labour in the 1990s
Independent- Ukip’s middle-class supporters can be Labour’s ‘secret weapon’, report claims
Yorkshire Post- Brexit is a backlash about democracy
Straits Times – Populism may just be getting started in the West
Scottish Independence
BBC News – Middle class obscured in a Scots myth
Social Science and the Internet
Christian Science Monitor- Are Americans losing interest in global warming? Hardly.
Consulting
BBC exit poll
Worked with BBC election night team every year since 2011 including the 2015 and 2017 exit polls.
World Bank
OSCE
West Point Academy