Tag: Nick Anstead
2015 will be an internet General Election, just not in the way you expect
With the 2015 General Election fast approaching, the Crick Institute for Understanding Politics have been thinking about what different strategies political parties are using to engage the public in politics. In this post, Nick Anstead, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics, looks at what role the internet is going to play in the coming months. He […]
We need to look at other parliamentary democracies for ideas about how to run televised debates
Among a number of political ramifications, the recent UKIP by-election success in Clacton has raised tough questions about the organization of televised debates during the 2015 general election campaign. Nick Anstead looks to Germany and Canada for more inclusive models that the UK could follow. Similar Posts‘Too close to call’? Accounting for satisfaction with party leadership would have […]
Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
The use of social media as a means of understanding public opinion has generated much interest of late. In particular, social media monitoring, which in theory can extract information from sites like Twitter and quantify reactions to people, policies and events holds obvious appeal for office-seekers in particular. Nick Anstead and Mike Jensen discuss how useful these techniques are for […]
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